Category: archives

  • H-EW 14’s place second in districts

    By: Sean Moylan    After posting an 8-3 win over Ewing on Friday the 13th at Bacon Field in Hopewell, the Hightstown-East Windsor 14-year-old Babe Ruth All-Star baseball squad appeared to be primed and ready to repeat as District One Champions. After all, winning two big games in one day is nothing new for this talented…

  • Tax case could cost borough $300K+ a year

    Owners of Minute Maid property seek huge reduction By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — The borough could lose hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in local tax revenue if the owners of the Minute Maid plant property are successful in a tax appeal they have filed.    The owners filed the appeal in April seeking to…

  • Eugene Bellina

       Eugene J. "Jimmy" Bellina, 85, died Friday, July 15, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born and raised in Newark, he lived there until moving to Edison in 1970 and finally to Clearbrook in 1999. He was owner and operator of his own oil supply and delivery business, Jimmy’s Oil Service, in Newark…

  • Story of a Body

    ‘Eccentric Bodies,’ on view at Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, presents the body as a canvas of experience. By: Ilene Dube    In Bailey Doogan’s charcoal drawings, a shapely woman with a voluptuous head of hair obscuring her face examines her naked wrinkled flesh. The images are titled, appropriately enough, "Self Exam in Nation."…

  • Elegant frozen desserts for summer affairs

    Frozen desserts used to be truly elegant fare at any time of year By: Faith Bahadurian    Give me a few extra minutes to kill and proximity to a bookstore, and chances are I’ll shortly be the proud owner of yet another cookbook. So on a frigid afternoon last winter I found myself browsing the well-stocked…

  • 1,000-mile trek by ‘power people’ sends bright message

    Liz Tylander, Lara Sheets and Kat Shiffler to focus on "Healthy Harvests" By: Carolyn Foote Edelmann    What happens when three young women — convinced that food grown locally is vital, and concerned that whole foods have taken on elitist overtones — put their heads together in search of solutions? They dream up "a people-powered" bicycle…

  • Good to see cooler heads prevail in West Windsor

    PACKET EDITORIAL, July 20    The prospect of West Windsor Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh and the Township Council becoming embroiled in a lawsuit over Township Attorney Michael Herbert has been averted by a compromise. That is good news for several reasons.    First, the sight of taxpayer dollars being converted into billable hours by litigators is never pretty,…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Ismael Perez, 21, of Farm Road, was charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of theft and one count of fraudulent use of a credit card after police found he had attempted to use a stolen credit card at an ATM.    Police said two Farm Road residents reported on May 27 that their…

  • E. Windsor softball 10’s advance to Final Four

    By: Sean Moylan    Don Oberg’s "Dazzling Dozen" from East Windsor went out and pounded the first three District 12 10-year-old Little League All-Star softball teams it faced to advance out of pool play and into the Final Four.    Using a combination of great hitting and sensational plate discipline for walks, East Windsor crushed West Windsor,…