Category: archives

  • Most city workers get 2 percent pay hikes

    Council members’ salaries remain unchanged. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — The City Council recently approved a 2-percent pay raise for most city employees while council members’ salaries remained unchanged, and two officials declined to take any pay at all.    Exceptions include Police Director Bruce Cocuzza and Public Assistance Director Bambi Kuhl, who received more than…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Alexander Crow, 21, of Wescott Road, was charged with possession of heroin, possession of a syringe, possession of CDS in a motor vehicle, driving while suspended and DWI after police found heroin in his car when he returned to Wescott Road home at 6:02 p.m. Aug. 11.    Police had initially followed him home when…

  • Stockton may limit parking on Moore Street

    Council seeks to improve visibility and promote safety for pedestrians and drivers. By: Linda Seida    STOCKTON — Parking on Moore Street could be reduced by about 50 percent if a new ordinance wins Borough Council approval.    The change would improve visibility and promote safety for pedestrians and drivers, according to council President Michael Hagerty.    The…

  • Vikes seek same old success with new look

    By: Rich Fisher    The South Brunswick High School girls volleyball team will have a fairly new roster and completely new style.    The question is, will two news make winning news?    Time will tell, but coach Shaun Ruymen is optimistic.    "I have faith in the girls," said the second-year coach, whose squad opens Friday with a…

  • Teen stays calm in crisis to save toddler’s life

    Teen stays calm in crisis to save toddler’s life

    Raymond Sanchez provided life-saving CPR

  • Elizabeth Muscatiello

       Elizabeth Muscatiello, 86, of Kendall Park died Thusday, Aug. 29, at JFK Medical Center in Edison.    Born in Meniti Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy, she came to the United States at age 18 and lived in New York City for 33 years before moving to Kendall Park in 1994.    She was a dressmaker and homemaker. She was…

  • Committee OKs ‘all hazards’ planning

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    A plan being developed will help keep Hillsborough residents from suffering the fate of New Orleaneans in the event of a major storm or other emergency.    The Township Committee unanimously approved a resolution to authorize Somerset County to include Hillsborough in its pre-disaster All Hazards Mitigation Plan, in an effort…

  • Rule Breakers

    Corsets of steel couldn’t hold back the ‘Dangerous Women’ of the art world between the two world wars. An exhibit at Mercer County Community College pairs 70 contemporary artists with their 20th-century counterparts. By: Megan Sullivan    A dangerous woman does not necessarily inflict pain upon others or cause intense fear and anxiety. A dangerous woman…

  • Moore pumped about coaching in Manville

    New head soccer coach very optimistic By: John Beisser        Tim Moore, the Manville High first-year varsity boys’ soccer coach, has traveled a somewhat circuitous route to the school district. Now that he’s here, he thinks he might have found a home for life.    "I’d like to teach and coach in Manville for the next…