Category: archives

  • MHS fall teams celebrate season

    Awards presented to athletes by Mary Ellen Zangara, Correspondent    Manville High School’s fall athletes were honored recently at the annual sports awards dinner sponsored by the MHS Booster Club held at St. Mary’s Parish Center.    Each of the fall teams and athletes were honored for their achievements during the 2007 season. MHS athletic director Pat…

  • Legislation targets library cap

    Jamesburg council favors Greenstein bill; some library board members don’t By Maria Prato-Gaines    JAMESBURG — Borough officials disagree over whether new legislation that would cap library funding increases at 4 percent would benefit Jamesburg.    The legislation, sponsored by Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein, a Democrat who represents Jamesburg, Cranbury and Monroe, would reduce the cap on mandated…

  • Town’s 1-armed bandit is ready to roll in 2008

    By Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    HIGHTSTOWN — After a decade of outsourcing its trash pickup, the borough is going to start picking up after itself next week.    Beginning Wednesday, some residents will find their regular garbage day changing as the borough rolls out its new, one-armed bandit truck, to pick up the household waste the…

  • 2007: A dozen tracked stories from a dozen packed months

       For area residents, the news in 2007 ran the gamut from the familiar to the strange and sad.    In the nothing-new category, life became more expensive for East Windsor and Hightstown denizens. And the tale of the rug mill in Hightstown started to take on “War and Peace” for its length, but with no final…

  • Cranbury could have new mayor

    Township Committee to reorganize Jan. 7 By Maria Prato-Gaines    CRANBURY — At the Township Committee’s reorganization meeting in January any one of its five members has the potential to walk out as mayor.    The committee will meet at 7 p.m. Jan. 7 in Town Hall, 23 N. Main St., for its annual reorganization meeting. At…

  • Borough trash collection

    Hightstown residents whose normal day of trash pickup, under the borough’s new in-house system, would be New Year’s Day will receive pickup on Wednesday, Jan. 2.

  • Trash collection correction

    Borough residents whose normal day of trash collection under the borough’s new in-house system would be Jan. 1 will have their trash collected on Wednesday, Jan. 2.

  • Marjorie C. Grubb

        ROBBINSVILLE — Marjorie C. Grubb, 81, died Dec. 20 at home.     Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident.     Ms. Grubb was a graduate of Trenton High School, Class of 1945, and after many years of service, retired from the state Department of Education.     She loved to spend time with…

  • Lady Eagles prepare for holiday tourney

    By John E. Powers, Sports Writer    Saturday morning, the South Hunterdon Regional High School girls basketball team impressed their first-year head coach.    The Eagles were eager to get back to practice after a tough win at Bound Brook Friday night.    ”I guess the temptation is to rest a bit, but every kid showed up, including…