Category: archives

  • Corzine should suggest cuts

    Vince Hoffman of Allentown To the editor:    All realistic citizens of New Jersey recognize the state is a financial disaster. Most are also resigned to the fact that somehow, someway, we are going to be digging deeper into our wallets to fix it. In your paper’s editorial on Feb. 14, the writer asked, “What would…

  • Wine & cheese, please on Friday

    Cherry Grove Farm, 3200 Lawrenceville Road (Route 206), will hold a wine and cheese tasting from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday in the farm store. In addition to free tastings for the farm’s several Italian cheese varieties, cheese maker Megan Caley will introduce a new variety. Wine from Hopewell Valley Vineyards will be available for…

  • Florence begins planning early for July patriotic celebration

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer FLORENCE — Although the township’s patriotic celebration is still months away, township officials are now seeking community input and looking for suggestions to fill the weekend with family-friendly activities.     The annual 5K-walk/fun run and parade will take place on Saturday, July 12, but township officials are looking to amp…

  • Volunteers make for success

       Participation in Friends of the Library’s “Love-Them-and-Read-Them” book sale illustrates the very point that our library is the crossroads of our community.    Friends and community members joined hands in donating, publicizing, helping to bake, setting up, endlessly neatening, selling, purchasing and breaking down before, during, and after our sale.    The task has once again been…

  • Five vie for three seats in April BOE elections

    Slate includes incumbents, Board alumnus By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Five candidates, including two incumbents and one former school board member, are running in the April 15 election for three open seats on the Lawrence Township Board of Education.    Incumbent school board members Ginny Bigley and Deborah Endo, plus former school board member Bill Michaelson…

  • Amrhein and Smith win district titles, three others advance

    By Ken Weingartner, Sports Writer    By doing nothing special, Dave Amrhein ended up with something . . . special.    Amrhein won the championship at 215 pounds Saturday at the District 20 wrestling tournament on his home turf of South Brunswick High School. A senior, Amrhein beat Monroe’s Jake Nale, 5-1, to claim his first district…

  • Greenview Avenue condo hearing postponed

    PRINCETON — Thursday night’s hearing on architect and developer J. Robert Hillier’s proposed condominium project on Greenview Avenue has been postponed at the request of Mr. Hillier, the Princeton Borough Zoning Board has announced. No reason for the request was given by Mr. Hillier’s attorney, nor was a new date suggested, the board said, adding that residents near the proposed development…

  • Task force holds meeting to address trucks on 206

    State allowing big rigs on road By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Tractor-trailer trucks barreling down Route 206 are a common sight.    But where are they coming from and where are they going? What can be done to divert or slow them down? Those are the questions the fledgling Route 206 Truck and Traffic Task Force…

  • Students to have weightless experience

    Students to have weightless experience

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    For a total of 20 minutes, four college students will know what it is like to be on the moon, without ever leaving Earth.    Rachel Sherman, Hillsborough resident and junior physics and secondary education major at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), will experience what it’s like to be weightless…