Category: archives

  • HEALTH MATTERS: Get motivated, moving and fit

    Nearly 40 percent of Ameri cans engage in no exercise or physical activity throughout the year … Christopher Blessing, MS Princeton HealthCare System     With the holiday season behind us and almost a whole new year ahead, it’s now time to make good on all those resolutions. Topping many of our lists is exercising and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: RoboRaiders prep for challenge

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    It’s nuts and bolts and basketball skills for the RoboRaiders, Hillsborough High School’s robotics team, since this year’s For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) challenge has the robots sinking balls into baskets.    Students will create a robot to maneuver around a low-friction floor, while working with two…

  • FEBRUARY 1: VERIZON WIRELESS REIMAGINES THE HOME PHONE

    By Gisela López Innovative Verizon Hub Helps Manage Busy Lives and Helps Users Stay Connected to Family and Community BASKING RIDGE, N.J. (January 23, 2009) — In a dynamic move sure to rattle devotees of plain old home phones, Verizon Wireless will introduce the new Verizon Hub on Feb. 1.  Only Verizon Wireless can launch a new…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Shelter in a box

    HILLSBOROUGH: Shelter in a box

    By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer    Abed Medawar, president of Somerset Marine, on Amwell Road, was watching CNN one day, when he saw a story about UK-based Tom Henderson, founder of a charity program called ShelterBox.    Mr. Henderson was, at the time, one of several nominees vying to be named by the network as a hero…

  • Nicole Miller Gets Engaged at the Bellevue
  • HILLSBOROUGH: Dreves, Martin stay in library board posts

    HILLSBOROUGH: Dreves, Martin stay in library board posts

       The Hillsborough Public Library Advisory Board elected officers, new members and reviewed 2008 Library achievements at its January meeting.    Hillsborough residents Karen Briegs, Jane Faulkner and Judy Haas were elected to fill openings on the 11-member board. Carter Dreves was named to a third term as board president and Sonya Martin to her second term…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Shelter in a box

    HILLSBOROUGH: Shelter in a box

    Pakistani troops unload the shelterboxes as anxious villagers wait. Photo courtesy of Shelterboxusa.org

  • David Stuart Dodge, 86

    David Stuart Dodge, 86 of Princeton, NJ, died peacefully Tuesday, January 20, 2009, of cancer. Beloved husband of Margaret White Dodge; Cherished father of Nina Dodge, Bayard and PJ Dodge, Melissa Dodge and Mark Rutherford, and Simon Dodge, and step-father of Dr. Richard and Mary White, Jr., John E. White, and Lee and Sergio Galvis;…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: HEF offering seniors computer classes

       The Hillsborough Education Foundation once again is offering computer classes to senior citizens. The classes are free of charge and open to any Hillsborough Township resident who is 60 years of age or older.    The foundation will be offering two levels of classes — beginner classes meeting on Tuesdays, and intermediate classes meeting on Thursdays.…