Category: archives

  • Schroeder takes round-about way to reaching his goal

    Goalie hopes to make pro leagues By: Frankie Richards    Craig Schroeder thought that dropping out of college and going to England to play soccer would be the opportunity of a lifetime.    Turns out leaving England and returning to college was the opportunity of a lifetime.    The final-semester senior at Lafayette College will play his third…

  • A CHAT WITH MARY

    Taxes, health care major issues for local diners By:Mary Kaempfen    Issues. There are plenty of them whether you are in the Democratic camp or the Republican camp. They stare at you from the headlines, and some of them affect your purse or your moral fiber. Some issues seem to have been stolen from one set…

  • Sushi restaurants proliferate in Princeton

    Offering delicious food that’s easy to eat, mostly low in calories and full of wonderful textures, Japanese fare is hardly resistible By: Judith Levin     Whenever I can, I make it a point to stop and admire the deft hands of sushi chefs as their beautiful works emerge suddenly from the palms of their hands…

  • Man charged with luring teen for sex

    Police allege Monroe man attempted to arrange sexual encounter with someone he believed to be 14-year-old girl By: Al Wicklund    MONROE – A local resident is awaiting an arraignment date on multiple charges of solicitation of sex from a minor in Pennsylvania.    The charges were lodged against him in Delaware County.    Stephen R. Kies, 45,…

  • Wrecking ball adds urgency to preservation plans

    Brockaw-Gulick house site marked for car wash By:Eric Schwarz    When wrecking equipment began to knock down auxiliary parts of the Brockaw-Gulick House property the morning of Aug. 4, all Sue Nittolo could do was to watch in shock.    Mrs. Nittolo, a resident of Brook Drive close to Route 206, grew up in the 155-year-old house…

  • Recalling Janssen traffic ballyhoo, then decade of silence

    REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK By:John Tredrea    Lately, as the opening of the first two buildings of Merrill Lynch’s Southfields office park draws near, dire predictions of the project’s traffic impact seem to have increased in frequency and intensity.    I’m sure there will be a substantial traffic impact. How could it be otherwise? Indeed, I remember sitting in…

  • Valley resident has spent years in and out of trees

    On the job in Hopewell Valley By:John Tredrea    Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in a series of portraits of people at work.    Craig Drummond has spent almost all his long working life in trees – pruning them, removing them (or their stumps) and occasionally planting them – just as his father, Douglas Drummond, did.…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY SCHOOL BRIEFS

       Timberlane open house    The Timberlane Middle School staff and admistration invites students and parents of the incoming sixth grade class to an open house on Monday, Aug. 28, from 1-2:30 p.m.    Students and parents may walk through the building to become familiar with the layout and the classroom locations.    Sixth grade students will receive their…

  • HBA,EDC seeks Hopewell illumination aid

    Funds needed to light snowflakes on Broad Street By:Ruth Luse    Hopewell Business Association (HBA) and Hopewell’s Economic Development Committee (EDC) have some "cool thoughts for warm days," as HBA President Max Hayden put it last week.    The two organizations – with the aid of two private donors, Mr. Hayden ($1,000) and Sharon Saums of Saums…