Category: archives

  • Footprints: Six died in 1877 train wreck in Milford

    By: Iris Naylor    One of the worst train wrecks in the history of Delaware Valley railroading took place Oct. 4, 1877.    The Oswego Express was southbound from Phillipsburg to Trenton on a very dark, stormy night when it was derailed just outside Milford, N.J.    A huge amount of rain had swollen the creek that emptied…

  • West Amwell students react to new digs

    By: Cynthia Williamson    WEST AMWELL – The township’s elementary school students resumed their studies last week, returning to refurbished classrooms and hallways and overhauled boys and girls bathrooms that one student said reminded him of "Las Vegas" – even though he’d never been there.    And while a student in teacher Howard Jeavon’s fifth-grade class said…

  • John Tierney, 65

       BELLE MEAD — John F. Tierney died Monday, Sept. 18, 2000, at home. He was 65.    Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in Farmingdale, N.Y., and in Perth Amboy before moving to Belle Mead 30 years ago.    He worked as a union carpenter with Local 455 in Somerville for 30 years, retiring in…

  • South hockey

    By: Mindy Knechel South 2 Hillsborough 0 <   The South Hunterdon field hockey team had the ball rolling to the net as Bridget Henn scored two goals on assists from Kendra Benitez.    Hillsborough put up a fight, but South’s defense was too good. Lindsay Wood made 13 saves as Jill Courter, Shelly Culbertson, Caitlin Buchanan, Andi…

  • Paving begins at Ettl Farm

    By: David Weinstein    Resurfacing of unfinished roads in the Ettl Farm development began last week and is expected to be finished by Oct. 15, Township Engineer Robert Kiser said Monday.    Other work which the township had given developer Toll Brothers until Sept. 15 to finish has not been completed, Mr. Kiser said, but the developer…

  • Effort seeks to save closed museum’s relics

    Faculty, alumni mount campaign to preserve collection By: Jeff Milgram    Faculty and alumni supporters of Princeton University’s now-closed Guyot Hall Natural History Museum are enlisting school teachers and students in their campaign to save the museum’s collection.    The supporters have taken out a paid advertisement in a local newspaper urging students, teachers and parents to…

  • Peterson helping on, off cross country course

    MHS senior is healthy… finally By: Justin Feil    Sara Peterson is looking to be more of a helper.    It started this summer when the Montgomery High School senior went to Costa Rica for two weeks. Staying in the poorer areas, Peterson did mission work with her church. She found a real love for it, takes…

  • PU hoops loses Gloger

    Sophomore guard heads back home By: Justin Feil    A year ago, Phil Jackman, a former member of the Princeton University men’s basketball team, played the title for the Princeton Shakespeare Company’s production of Othello in the fall.    The Tigers basketball team needs some more actors to pull off a sense of normalcy after Spencer Gloger…

  • Troubled owner sells senior-care facilities

    By: David M. Campbell    PLAINSBORO – The Forrestal Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Chancellor Park at the Windrows, an 83-unit assisted-living facility, are under new management.    Massachusetts-based CareMatrix Corp., plagued by financial troubles, announced Aug. 31 that it and an affiliate company, Chancellor Senior Housing Group, had closed a $90 million deal to divest…