Category: archives

  • Anti-Semitic and racist graffiti suspects still await grand jury

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    More than six months after anti-Semitic and racist graffiti was found in Hightstown, East Windsor and Roosevelt, the case of three township men charged with the acts has not been presented to a grand jury.    And while that’s how the local Community Solidarity Group led off its latest mass e-mail,…

  • Young parishioners help run Bible camp

    Young parishioners help run Bible camp

    Jessica Roth helps Emma and Rachel Lukacs make cards to be sen to soldiers stationed overseas during last week’s Christ the King Bible camp. Photos by Mary Ellen Zangara

  • Ernest Belles Toth

       HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — Ernest Belles Toth, 84, died Sunday at Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville, Ala.    Born in Trenton, Mr. Toth was an Army Air Corps World War II veteran of the Pacific campaign and a Mason. He retired after 25 years from the RCA Space Center in Hightstown, where he was a leading engineer in many…

  • Enrollment may force redistricting

    McKnight full, Rogers has many empty rooms By Elaine Leahy, Special Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — The East Windsor Regional school board is looking at possibly redistricting its Ethel McKnight and Grace N. Rogers elementary schools for the 2009-2010 school years because of soaring enrollment at McKnight.    In what Superintendent Ron Bolandi said was an unexpected move,…

  • Ann O’Dowd

       Ann (nee Mulhern) O’Dowd, 88, died Thursday at the home of her daughter Annette.    Born March 1920 in Ardara County Donegal, Ireland, she immigrated to the U.S. in 1947. She lived in Brooklyn N.Y. until 1981, when she moved to Edison, and then later East Windsor in 1994. She worked for the Board of Education…

  • Robbinsville softball 10’s win District 12

    Sean Moylan Sports Writer     Often times a great softball team will discover its championship heart in the heat of battle on the field of play. However, the 2008 District 12 championship Robbinsville 10-year-old Little League All-Star softball squad found its championship heart at the end of a seemingly routine practice this past Saturday morning.…

  • Campers work body and mind

    by Davy James, Staff Writer    As summer creeps toward the dog days of August, summer camps throughout the community are in full swing as local kids take advantage of a full slate of activities offered by South Brunswick Community Education’s day camps.    Base Camp, for grades one through five, runs at Indian Fields Elementary School…

  • Council rejects false alarm rules

    by Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    The Township Council rejected an ordinance Tuesday that would have established new fines for false alarms from residential and commercial security systems.    The measure was defeated by a vote of 4-0, with Councilman Chris Kilmurray not in attendance.    Council members said the intent of the ordinance was to reduce the…

  • Deborah Horvat

       MANVILLE — Deborah Horvat died at home July 17. She was 48.    She was born in Hollywood, Fla., and was a resident of Manville.    Survivors include her husband, Michael Horvat; and two sons Matthew and Jonathan.    Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Bridgewater Funeral Home in Bridgewater.