Category: archives

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: L’Oreal dolls up town park

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    As a company, The L’Oreal Group is known for its line of beauty cosmetics. But in celebration of the company’s 100th anniversary, the company chose to give a local park a much-needed makeover.    On June 4, nearly 140 employees from the company’s facility on Deans Rhode Hall Road joined together…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: From the June 11 edition

    A weekly listing of local events Soup sale     Friday, June 12 — Homemade vegetable-beef soup sale for takeout only at Trinity United Methodist Church, 339 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown City. Advance order required, $5.50 per quart, pickup from 2 to 3 p.m. Order soon as we sell out quickly, you must order to purchase. Call…

  • COLUMBUS NEWS: From the June 11 edition

    Peg Traino Peg Traino     Tel: 298-7476     [email protected]    Mansfield Township Recreation is now accepting registrations for Fall 2009 soccer. The fall soccer program is for children in pre- kindergarten (4 years old) through 8th grade. Registration forms are available at http://rec.mansfieldtownship.com. The registration deadline is June 30. An in-person registration will take place at…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Click It or Ticket effort a success

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    The South Brunswick Police Department announced the results of the recently completed Click It or Ticket campaign.    The national seatbelt enforcement mobilization effort ran from May 18 through May 31 and resulted in 95 tickets being written for seat belt violations locally. In addition, 78 speeding citations were written, along…

  • MANVILLE: List your yard sale with PTA fundraiser

    By Mary Ellen Zangara, Special Writer    Manville residents hoping to boost sales at their yard sales this week can gain some extra advertising power, thanks to the Roosevelt School PTA’s first Community Yard Sale.    The PTA will print up lists of sales planned for 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday (rain date June 27), and…

  • False comparison

    Dave Beaumont, West Amwell     Last week my colleague Marie Collins wrote that cost-per-pupil “is a descriptive statistic that the NJ Department of Education uses to compare the cost of education throughout the state (cost divided by enrollment equals cost-per-pupil).” As Marie and others have noted, South is the most expensive school in New Jersey…

  • MANSFIELD: Police Beat from the June 11 edition

    MANSFIELD: Police Beat from the June 11 edition

    Staff report    Chrystal I. Eads, 23, of Rowlett, Texas, was charged Saturday with drunken driving, reckless driving and failure to maintain lane.    Police said they stopped her at 2:38 a.m. at Route 260 and Route 543 after seeing her drive erratically in the southbound lanes of Route 206.    Ms. Eads appeared intoxicated and failed field…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Strawberry festival fun

    BORDENTOWN CITY: Strawberry festival fun

    Phil McAuliffe Mary Hamm, Jasmine Hamm and Selena Dicks carry full trays of strawberries to their car at Russo’s Farm Market on Saturday.

  • Regionalization!

    Daniel Kurz, Lambertville     When Marie Collins defends the cost-per-pupil in Lambertville schools, she cites a simple formula used to make this calculation: Divide the number of students by the total cost to provide educational services. Ms. Collins believes this calculation is unfair because it compares Lambertville to larger districts that have more taxpayer monies…