Category: archives

  • Officials seeking answers to skate park plan questions

    By: Vic Monaco, Managing Editor and Matt Chiappardi, Staff Writer    A plan for an area skateboard park has run into some significant concerns but a local proponent says he remains optimistic that the proposal will keep rolling along.    Richard Pratt presented the conceptual plan last week to the East Windsor Regional school board and East…

  • Rose Bogota

       Rose H. (Swirski) Bogota, 81, died Tuesday, June 26, at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in the Menlo Park Section of Edison, she lived in Jamesburg for more than 50 years. She worked as a folder at Komar Dress Factory in Spotswood for several years, and later in the cafeteria of K-Mart in…

  • Change of scenery for judge; resident names to Appellate Division of Superior Court

    By: Michelle McGuinness    Though the black robe of her office will remain the same, Cranbury resident and state Superior Court Judge Amy Piro Chambers is about take on a new challenge.    Judge Chambers was appointed to the Appellate Division of the court by former Chief Justice James R. Zazzali, who retired on June 17. She…

  • Human Impact

    Susan Hockaday’s abstract photos have long explored the natural world on Cape Breton Island. Her work has evolved to show encroachment on the landscape. By: Ilene Dube    There aren’t many places left in the world that are completely unspoiled. Hike deep into the woods and you’re likely to find Poland Spring bottles crushed under a…

  • WW farmers’ market offers a Shore thing

    We work with local fisherman and bring their catch the next day directly to New Jersey farmers’ markets every week By: Faith Bahadurian Jim LaPrete of Shore Catch specializes in bringing ‘Jersey Fresh’ fish to farmers’ markets across the state, including West Windsor’s.    Eating locally is being carried to new heights — or depths —…

  • Groups challenge archaeological report

    William Liebeknecht, president of the Archaeological Society: encouraging the department to require more survey work. By: Bill Greenwood    MONROE — Letters disputing the results of a archaeological survey that states that the Bethel Mission is not located on a 35-acre parcel on Thompson Park on which the Board of Education wants to build a new…

  • Governing by ‘olive branch’ or ‘hardball’?

    PACKET EDITORIAL, July 6    According to the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, an "olive branch" is "a symbol of peace, an offering of good will, as in They feuded for years, but finally the Hatfields came over bearing an olive branch."    We were forced to revisit our understanding of the phrase this week after its…

  • Catholic vicar to hone English skills elsewhere

    By: Matt Chiappardi    HIGHTSTOWN — He was once a seminary teacher, but he came to St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church as a student.    Now, after four years as one of the church’s parochial vicars, an assistant pastor of sorts, the Rev. Miguel Valle has moved on to the next chapter of his spiritual…

  • Mary Dohrmann

       Mary Elodee (McGovern) Dohrmann, 85, died, Saturday, June 30, surrounded by her family.    Born in Newburgh, N.Y., she was a graduate of Newburgh Free Academy. She resided in Cranbury for over 30 years before moving to Whiting and recently moved with her daughter, Elodee and family in Howell.    She was a past member of St.…