Category: archives

  • South tenured employees should have pay cuts

    Bambi Kuhl, of Lambertville    Much has been said by many regarding the South Hunterdon Regional budget.    Strangely silent remain the teachers and other tenured employees who are slated to receive healthy raises this year while the bus drivers, cafeteria workers and some administrators voluntarily opted to forego theirs.    Employees of two municipalities, whose property taxes…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Road repair work may mean closures

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    Several county roads in the township will be getting a facelift over the summer.    Residents can expect some of these roads to be closed as the county does milling and resurfacing work on them.    From Sunday to July 9 work will be done on Deans Lane from Georges Road Route…

  • PARENTING PEARLS: Open doors of discovery to your children

    by Mae Sakharov, Special Writer    Each year, June and July are nostalgic times for me.    It is then the mail brings announcements from former students, some of whom are graduating from college, and others on the way. Their rite of passage is exciting and brings back memories of times we have spent together.    This year,…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Corzine visits township for Turnpike widening ceremony

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — Gov. Jon Corzine was here Thursday to break ground on the $2.7 billion project to widen the New Jersey Turnpike between exits 6 and 8A.    The project will add 170 lane miles to the road and will result in the highway having six lanes in each direction…

  • MANVILLE: ABIS ceremony marks students’ achievements

    MANVILLE: ABIS ceremony marks students’ achievements

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    ABIS Principal Dr. James Brunn challenged the school’s graduating class during his June 18 speech, asking the students if they will take advantage of the opportunity they have for a “terrific life.”    If the students follow the advice of Robert Frost, quoted by Kimberly Ulate in her speech, they…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Stormy weather gives areas farmers the blues

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    Hardly a day has gone by in the last month without rain.    For most people, it has been an inconvenience. Something that has ruined a barbecue or a trip to the ballpark, but nothing more.    For the area’s farmers though, the extra precipitation has been much more serious. Some crops…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Police to step up traffic enforcement

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    Reckless drivers, speeders and red light runners beware.    The South Brunswick Police Department will be cracking down on moving violations throughout July as part of the Obey the Signs or Pay the Fines enforcement campaign.    In hopes of stopping speeding and other moving violations, the police are taking part in…

  • July 4 ‘worst’ day of week for businesses

    Robert V. Gerenser, of New Hope    This year, Independence Day will fall on one of the worst days of the week for New Hope and Lambertville businesses.    July 4, 2009 will be Saturday. So what?    Our businesses rely on the few precious weekends we get in the summer to accumulate sufficient cash reserves to survive…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Tacet OK for new band director

    School board hires again, without comment By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — The East Windsor Regional school board hired a new director for the high school marching band this week, albeit with considerably less fanfare than when it hired the previous director about two months ago.    In fact, there wasn’t a word spoken by…