Category: archives

  • ‘Polite demonstration’ to protest estate’s plans

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    As representatives of Duke Farms seek to quell misconceptions of plans for the estate’s 11 international gardens, petitions and demonstrations have been planned to try to stop the plans.    Ruth Schrey, of Branchburg, who recently started an online petition to protest the disbanding of the international display gardens at Duke…

  • Planners to consider restaurant requests

    Meeting set for June 16 By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Township planners expect to consider an application Monday night by Amalfi’s restaurant, located at 146 Lawrenceville-Pennington Road, that would permit the restaurant to sell liquor for off-premises consumption.    The Planning Board also will consider a request by applicant CJL Properties LLC/Amalfi’s Cuisine LLC to increase…

  • Solebury School senior wins N.J. track and field event

    Hedges runs 4:37 mile, a personal best    SOLEBURY— Thomas Hedges, Solebury School’s star distance runner and male Athlete of the Year, won the boys high school mile event at the New Jersey International Track and Field meet in Holmdel, N.J., on June 7.    The meet, which saw Hedges run a 4:37 mile, a personal best,…

  • BOOK NOTES: Joan Ruddiman

    High-tech thriller from ‘the voice of this generation’    The hands-down favorite genres of the people I see most often — middle school kids — are science fiction and fantasy. Yet, as much as I love sharing books with kids, I rarely venture into these worlds.    My students also find it amusing that I am tentative,…

  • Township budget adopted with 5.7-cent rate hike

    By Anthony V. Coppola, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — The Township Council adopted the 2008 municipal and garbage budgets this week, measures that carry 5.7-cent and just under 1-cent increases respectively.    Mayor Janice Mironov attributed 5.4 cents of the rate increase in the $20.7 million municipal budget to a $296,500 loss in state aid and…

  • Falcons win state tournament

    TCHSA FALCONS By Tim Falls, Sports Editor    The Tri-County Home School Association Falcons baseball team won the New Jersey Home School Sports Association State Championship on Monday.    The TCHSA Falcons went 3-0 to win their first title in the third year of the tournament.    The Falcons are coached by Lawrence residents, manager Dave Miller and…

  • Lifesaving responders honored by township

    Lifesaving responders honored by township

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    It is something they have said anyone would do, but four police officers and seven rescue workers were recognized for their rescue efforts after they worked together to save a car accident victim without what one officer considered to be an obvious chance of survival.    Officers Thomas Gurba, Richard Yock,…

  • Florence-Roebling News

       Ice Cream Social (homemade) Friday. June 13 at 7 p.m. at Mt. Moriah Lodge, 121 Farnworth Ave., Bordentown, sponsored by the Bordentown Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. This will also be a game night for the entire family. Bring your board games, cards, dominos or whatever you enjoy playing. I promise you will have…

  • Program pools talents to tackle problems

    Program pools talents to tackle problems

    Students in the district’s academically gifted program made their year-end presentations last week at Roosevelt School. Photo by Mary Ellen Zangara