Category: archives

  • Candidates qualify for ‘clean election’ funds

    Assembly, Senate hopefuls receive at least 400 $10 donations in state experiment By: Paul Koepp    Clean elections may be here to stay, as 15 of the 20 candidates participating in the state’s experiment in public financing for campaigns — including all local Republican and Democratic legislative candidates — have passed the initial test of receiving…

  • West Windsor woman pleads guilty in captive worker case

    Filipino was brought to the U.S. as a nanny and ended up a virtual slave By: Greg Forester    WEST WINDSOR — She came to the country to work as a nanny after being promised $8 an hour and overtime pay    Instead she found herself living as a captive worker in the home of a West…

  • Historically Speaking

    By: John Fabiano Allentown, N.J. its Rise and Progress (Part 48)    Charles R. Hutchinson located Isaac Stelle’s tavern near Peppler’s —where Upper Freehold was formed in 1730/31—a foundation wall of its westerly neighbor is said to be extant.     About the year 1830, that part of Allentown on the westerly side of the bridge contained…

  • Resident passes on complaint against ex-superintendent

    Stonewick Court resident Hal Brown says wife was harrassed during student protest in May By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer    Stonewick Court resident Hal Brown won’t file an ethics complaint against former Superintendent Karen Lake over an incident between his photographer wife and Dr. Lake during a student protest in June.    Mr. Brown asked about filing…

  • It takes Ten Thousand Villages

    Profit is important for this Princeton purveyor of global handicrafts – profit for its artisans not itself By Lauren Otis, Business Editor    You are visiting the Princeton Shopping Center, perhaps running an errand or visiting a restaurant. Strolling along, you happen upon a shop with an incredible assortment of exotic handicrafts from around the world…

  • Book Notes

    Grasping unwritten rules Joan Ruddiman    School is around the corner, and for some children and their parents the back-to-school angst has begun.    School is not only about academics. It also has a lot to do with relationships. Anxiety about getting along and making friends (Will they like me?) can be overwhelming to children and agonizing…

  • A yellow-ribbon invitation

    A yellow-ribbon invitation

    LIVING IN MANVILLE By Mary Ellen Zangara Special Writer    Liberty Street resident Bob Kaminski is tying yellow ribbons in his trees in preparation for his daughter’s deployment to Iraq, taking a note from the popular ‘70s song by Tony Orlando and Dawn.    And in keeping with the song about a couple separated by war, and…

  • A yellow-ribbon invitation

    A yellow-ribbon invitation

    Bob Kaminski is inviting residents to tie yellow ribbons on his trees as a send-off for his daughter, Senior Airman Kimberly Kaminski. Photo by Mary Ellen

  • Floyd Weinstock

       Dr. Floyd Weinstock, 53, of Pennington, died Friday of a traumatic brain injury sustained in a rollerblading accident.    Dr. Weinstock was an ophthalmologist in private practice in Lawrenceville.    A 1975 graduate of Princeton University, he earned his medical degree at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1979 and trained at Wills Eye…