Category: archives

  • Images of the county

    Photographer captures beauty of area By:David Dankwa    MONTGOMERY — Photographer Walter Choroszewski captures images that many out-of-towners can only imagine exist here.    “My very first publisher was a guy from Vermont, and he specialized in New England books,” said Mr. Choroszewski, who for 20 years has produced numerous books and calendars with photos from the…

  • More gun enforcement, not more gun laws

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    I too felt the urge to comment about the recent activities of armed criminals in Lawrenceville. I was nodding along in agreement with your editorial (“Suburbia isn’t safe") until I came to that colossal non-sequitur that passed as a final paragraph:    “Until state and federal lawmakers come to…

  • No one immune to gun violence

    Guest opinion By: Debra Wachspress    Here we go again. Another shooting in a bastion of childhood innocence. Last week the country paused to remember Columbine one year after the high school massacre. This week we mourn as yet another child is buried and several lay severely injured in hospitals in Washington, D.C. after a 16-year-old…

  • Raiders reach quarterfinals

    Set to face Montgomery on Saturday By:Rudy Brandl    BERNARDS — Heather Hinton picked the perfect time to emerge from her hitting slump and Erin Murphy pitched another superb game to lift the Hillsborough High softball team to a 2-0 victory over Bernards in Saturday’s Somerset County Tournament first round.    The victory snapped a two-game skid…

  • Local women plan D.C. march

    Million Mom March will protest gun violence May 14. By: Caroline Calogero        Last August, Donna Dees-Thomases watched the line of nursery school children being led away from the carnage at their Granada Hills day camp in California. Seeing her worst nightmare played out on afternoon TV led her to conceive the plans for the…

  • Maria E. Sottile Martone

       MONROE — Maria E. Sottile Martone, 85, died Monday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in New York City, she lived in Manhattan and the Bronx, N.Y., and 38 years in Albertson, N.Y., before moving to Clearbrook in 1994.    She was an insurance adjuster for New Hampshire Insurance Co., Albertson, several years…

  • Living with cystic fibrosis

    Condition doesn’t get this girl down By: David Learn    Megan Barlow is like any other second-grader at Woods Road Elementary School. She enjoys math and social studies, and likes to play with her friends.    Where Megan is different from her peers is that she has cystic fibrosis, a condition that affects about 30,000 children and…

  • Ledger’s Past

    A look back at Ledger articles from years gone by. 30 years ago    Throughout the coming months the Board of Trustees of The Lawrenceville School will be considering a recommendation of the School’s “Turning Point Committee” that “coeducation in some form is desirable at Lawrenceville School.”    In a special issue on the topic, the school’s…

  • Dorothy J. Wilkie

       Dorothy L. Wilkie, 78, died Tuesday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident.    She was retired from the state Division of Motor Vehicles, Trenton.    Wife of the late William, she is survived by two sisters, Margaret Gryziewicz of Lawrence and Beatrice Howarth of Washington Township;…