Category: archives

  • Parenting Pearls-Nov. 6, 2008

    Explore state and community college options By Dr. Mae Sakharov, Special Writer    Parents of juniors and seniors in high school complain about how complicated the college admissions process has become.    They recall applying to one or two schools, filling out a simple application and receiving notification of acceptance in the spring.    Less attention was paid…

  • ‘Voters’ supported Screening Room

    Sara Scully of Lambertville     By the time subscribers read this, our country will have just undertaken one of the most important actions in our democracy: voting.    While news of the Nov. 4 results at this point is no doubt resounding — and, hopefully, not breaking our spirits — I am writing this to celebrate…

  • Relief for 89 will benefit 566

    William G. Dressel Jr. of League of Municipalities     Oct. 22, the state’s Council on Local Mandates nullified provisions of the state budget that would have forced 89 municipalities to enter into “cost-sharing” agreements with the state treasurer in order to fund a part of the state police budget.    Failure to accept the treasurer’s terms…

  • Trillium school event successful

    Officers and board members     We would like to publicly thank all those families who attended the first annual potluck for the Trillium Foundation for Education and Sustainability.    We are pleased at the level of community interested surrounding the Trillium Charter School, which we plan to open in southern Hunterdon County in September 2010.    It…

  • Manville boys end season on winning note

    Manville boys end season on winning note

    Season ends with three victories by John Beisser, Sports Writer    A long, tough, yet rewarding season for the Manville High boys’ soccer team ended on a positive note when the Mustangs tied Sussex Tech 2-2 before capping off the year with a sharp 4-2 victory over Highland Park.    The Mustangs made the near two-hour trek…

  • Molnar is unofficial winner in West Amwell

       Unofficial election results at 9 p.m. Tuesday show it appears Republican Thomas Molnar will win a three-year seat on the Township Committee in West Amwell over Ron Shapella, 813-705. The county clerk’s office said absentee ballots give another 68 votes to Mr. Molnar, and 67 to Mr. Shapella.    In Stockton, all candidates for Borough Council…

  • Breaking: Cody wins in Cranbury

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, Staff Writer    Win Cody defeated John Ritter for an open Township Committee seat in Cranbury 1,051-806.    Mr. Cody, a Republican, will replace fellow Republican Wayne Wittman, maintaining a 4-1 Democratic majority.

  • ‘Changeling’

    ‘Changeling’

    A good story badly told, ‘Changeling’ drives home its message like a drunken joker who wants to make sure you got the punch line By Elise Nakhnikian CHANGELING is one of those films that tries to evoke the past by mimicking the look and feel of an old movie. We hop from one sensationalistic genre…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Graffiti trial moves forward

       The three East Windsor men charged with scrawling anti-Semitic and profane graffiti on monuments and street signs in that township, Hightstown and Roosevelt are scheduled for a pre-indictment conference Nov. 12.    Nikolai Afanassenkov, Max Drazdik and Nicholas Kurahara were charged in February with bias intimidation and bias-based criminal mischief. They turned themselves into police soon…