Category: archives

  • Final countdown to opening bell

    Teachers have been getting ready for the first day, too by Madeleine Johnson, Social Editor    Not all of the new faces in the South Brunswick schools will be those of students — approximately 65 new teachers are looking forward to their first day of school, too.    ”It’s really exciting,” Monmouth Junction second-grade teacher Alana Black…

  • Breathing easier

    Breathing easier

    Local firefighters seek breathing apparatus after receiving Homeland Security funding By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    Congressman Mike Ferguson, R-7th, stood in front of a firetruck at the Hillsborough Volunteer Fire Company No. 3 on Woods Road and held up a check, large both in physical size and amount of money. Fire company to host annual…

  • On Point

    Acquiring new taste By: Linda McCarthy    There is no accounting for taste, especially when it comes to home decor. My house is decorated in an eclectic array of whatever I find on sale and a few castoff items from dead relatives. I pass those things off as family heirlooms. Although, I doubt the computer desk…

  • Boys soccer team enjoys experience, potential

    By: David Gurney    He prefers to say they’re excited, but South Brunswick High boys soccer head coach Chris Hayston knows there is a sense of urgency with his bunch. Especially after a 10-1-1 start last year ended in four losses to end the regular season, a GMC semifinal exit and a loss in the NJSIAA…

  • Simply, Fences

    M. Jay Goodkind’s latest photographs are inspired by the words of Robert Frost, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ By: Susan Van Dongen    With the calm, reflective nature of a retired physician — an old-fashioned doctor, the kind who made house calls — M. Jay Goodkind speaks about the magnificence of the human body, especially the…

  • Dukes Parkway area sees more break-ins

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    A string of bicycle thefts and car burglaries in the neighborhood of Kimberly Road and Taylor Avenue, off Dukes Parkway, on Aug. 18 appear to be connected — and may be related to an earlier car theft there, police said.    Previously, four residents of the area had reported car break-ins…

  • District privatizes custodians

    By: Cara Latham    WASHINGTON — In an effort to save as much as $350,000 a year, the school board has decided to go with privatizing the custodial services at the district’ schools.    School board members have approved a two-year, $1.8 million contract with All Clean Inc., of Lawrenceville, for those services.    The school board unanimously…

  • For quick trips, some ignore parking rules

    Some are ticketed, some are confused by the new Main Street markings. By: Audrey Levine    While Main Street business owners fight to get 36 curbside parking spaces eliminated by the county restored, some of their customers are taking matters into their own hands and parking there anyway.    The spaces were eliminated by Somerset County —…

  • New approval granted for warehouse plan

    By: Cara Latham    UPPER FREEHOLD — The Planning Board last week gave approval, for the second time, to a warehouse application that has faced opposition by a group of residents for more than a year.    The application — submitted by Freehold-based developer JAC Raw Land Co. LLC, to build a 13,940-square-foot warehouse in a highway…