Category: archives

  • ETS ‘gets moving’ as it expands commitment to employee health

    By Emily Laermer, Staff Writer    Healthy living is important to Educational Testing Service. The company already provides its employees with on-campus yoga, nature trails and WeightWatchers.    This week, ETS introduces its newest campaign, LiveWell, with a 20-day walking challenge.    For this Get Moving Competition, teams of six ETS employees have received pedometers to count how…

  • Night Out brings town together

    Night Out brings town together

    Staff photo by John Keating Bob Brennan, of the Monmouth Junction Fire Department, helps Joshua Hossack suit up.

  • Generator bolsters township’s emergency shelter plans

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    With township’s recent purchase of a new generator for the Woods Road Firehouse, the firehouse will be better equipped to serve as an emergency shelter during disasters.    Although the firehouse already has been equipped to serve as an emergency shelter for the American Red Cross, Mark Brownlie, Office of Emergency…

  • Shutout sends Little Leaguers to softball World Series

    First game on Aug. 7 was expected to be against Latin America By Sean Moylan, Sports Writer    The Robbinsville 12-year-old Little League All-Star softball team may be the coolest, most focused squad in America, but that didn’t stop the players from going wild after beating Scarborough of Maine, 7-0, in Saturday’s U.S. East Region Tournament…

  • Elks’ tournament benefits Manville toddler

    By Mary Ellen Zangara Special Writer    Manville toddler Jake Whitenight was Manville’s first recipient from the annual Jack Gardner Memorial Softball Tournament, sponsored by the Somerville Elks Lodge 1068 to benefit local children in need of medical help and financial assistance.    Two-year-old Jake was born with no ear canal and an external ear malformation. He…

  • League’s players look forward to a ‘do-over’

    League’s players look forward to a ‘do-over’

    Players in the Hillsborough Basbeall League Summer Recreation Program managed their own teams and games, even calling the occasional “do-over.” Photo courtesy of Joe Hernandez

  • Bordentown 12’s start Regional pool play 1-2

    Sean Moylan Sports Writer     The Bordentown 12-year-old Little League All-Star baseball team stayed alive in the East Regional baseball tournament with a sensational 4-0 pool play win over Capitol City Little League of Washington D.C. this past Monday at Leon J. Breen Field in Bristol, Connecticut.     Hard-throwing Austin Goeke earned the start and…

  • Swimming program teaches life skills

    Jenny Dalton of Bordentown I just wanted to thank the Bordentown CE/R for sponsoring the Swim Program. Under the direction of Dr. Shirley Fisher, the program teaches young people in our community an important life skill – the ability to swim and to be able to save themselves in a water emergency. At the Community…

  • Neighbors say prank caused fatal fall

    Jackie Tootall and Peggy Foltermann of Bordentown Township A week ago, on Saturday night, a few young people thought it might be funny to knock on a few doors and rap on windows as they exited Joe Lawrence Park in Bordentown. What they did not know was that one elderly lady, in attempting to see…