Category: archives

  • Flynn runs off with Shore Invitational victory

    By: Sean Moylan Sports Writer     If Robbinsville High girls’ cross country standout Megan Flynn had her own action figure, it probably wouldn’t need batteries. You’d just have to set it on the ground and it would run non-stop.     Consequently, with her boundless energy, the real life-size version of Flynn had no trouble blowing…

  • History group heading to inauguration

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    This year’s presidential election is guaranteed to make history, and some students from South Brunswick High School are going to be a part of it.    But they need a little help first. Members of the Dead Presidents Society, the SBHS history club, will be attending the presidential inauguration in Washington,…

  • Marliese Kupferschmid

       Marliese Kupferschmid Dodd, 75, of North Brunswick, died Monday, Oct. 6, at home after a lengthy battle with lung cancer.    Born in Zurich, Switzerland, she was raised in Durbheim, Germany. Following her graduation from Berufliche Gewerbe Schule in Spaichinge, Germany where she specialized in tailoring and fashion design, she came to the United States in…

  • Kathryn Zinsmeister, Princeton

    Kathryn Zinsmeister, Princeton beloved daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother died in her home at Acorn Glen, Princeton, New Jersey on August 27, 2008. She was born in Philadelphia on October 14, 1919 to Rachael and Robert Smith. She was preceded in death by her father in 1922, her mother in 1971, and by…

  • Lawrence 17-year-old can fly solo but driving, that’s another thing

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    For 17-year-old Tony Richardson, the irony is striking — he can fly an airplane from one airport to another by himself, but he cannot drive to school in a car alone.    But that doesn’t really bother the Lawrence High School junior, who earned his private pilot’s license Sept. 21 —…

  • SPOTLIGHT: ‘Celebrating the Harvest Moon’: Third ‘Taste of Lawrenceville’ bows at Rider on Sunday

        “Celebrating the Harvest Moon” is the theme of the third annual “Taste of Lawrenceville,” which is taking place on Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m.     This benefit for Lawrenceville Main Street will offer a tasting of seasonal delicacies from Lawrence eateries and area farms as well as a tasting of more than 60…

  • Look locally for examples

       As I write, a few hours after the failure of the House of Representatives to pass the financial rescue bill, it is a bit difficult to think about local politics and government, though I wonder why, at least in South Brunswick, local government seems so much more civil than at the state or national level.…

  • Dispatches: Squeezed from both sides

    By Hank Kalet, Managing Editor    The economic news has not been great.    The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been in free-fall. Major investment firms have disintegrated. Retail sales were down drastically in September. Nearly 160,000 jobs were eliminated in September and, as CNN reported last week, unemployment is at a seven-year high while “the number…

  • Lawrence Hopewell Trail link opens near D&R Canal

       Lawrence officially opened a new pedestrian and bicycle connection this month, providing walkers, joggers and cyclists better access to the Delaware & Raritan Canal towpath near the historic Brearley House.    The new connector just behind the Brearley House will eventually link a nearby segment of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail and the Brandywine Princeton Pike Corporate…