Category: archives

  • Pennington woman cycles cross-country for a cause

       Editor’s note: Kaley Bell, a 2002 graduate of Hopewell Valley Central High School and a resident of Pennington, is en route to California by bike. She promised several updates along the way. Here is the first installment.    Starting June 11, I began a nine-week cross-country bike tour, riding from Providence, R.I., to San Francisco, Calif.…

  • Letters (07.05.07)

    Not Trenton, not Ewing — just Lawrenceville To the Editor:     Thank you for the news that something is finally being done about Lawrenceville’s designation and identity or rather lack of them.    As a resident of Lawrenceville for 44 years, I faced the problem many times. For example, when travelling, I had many rather unpleasant…

  • Court denies strip mall’s appeal

    Construction of a proposed shopping center on Rt. 27 at Finnegan’s Lane blocked. By: Paul Koepp    Plans for a pharmacy and strip mall at the intersection of Route 27 and Finnegans Lane could be dead.    A three-judge panel of the Appellate Division of state Superior Court, in Trenton, reversed a February 2006 trial court ruling…

  • EDITORIAL

    Time to abolish an uncourteous Senate practice.    Now that state Sen. Nia Gill has finally "signed off" on Gov. Jon Corzine’s nomination of Attorney General Stuart Rabner to be the next chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, everybody in Trenton can shake hands, smile and pretend nothing untoward happened in the couple of…

  • EDITORIAL

    July 4th event organizers deserve kudos.    The last few weeks in Hillsborough have been very hectic, with many things happening.    From the announcement of the final design plans for the Route 206 Bypass, to Hillsborough High School’s graduation exercises, to the Sustainable Hillsborough project and the Planning Board’s approval of redevelopment plans for the GSA…

  • Eight longtime residents get ready to be ‘roasted’

    By: Stephanie Prokop    BORDENTOWN CITY—The Bordentown 325th Anniversary Committee is planning a roast for July 14 — only the entrée will be several prominent community members.    The "roast" gets its name from the kind of ceremony it is; that is, poking fun at area residents while reminiscing and remembering things the way they were in…

  • Day at the Fair

    The Freedom Fest Fair brings its family-friendly and fun-filled events to the Horse Park of New Jersey. See related story: Wild-Eyed Southern Boys By: Megan Sullivan Grammy award-winning Christian rock band Third Day will give a concert July 12 at Freedom Fest Fair.    Freedom Fest, a mission of the Allentown Presbyterian Church, began as a…

  • REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK

    Sculptor’s spirit lives on in his work By: Susan Van Dongen    A birthday surprise has turned bittersweet since the death of Raymon Taylor, a jovial, generous, creative fellow who lived up the street from us in Bordentown. He’s the guy who took metal scraps of whatever and welded them into works of art. Mr. Taylor…

  • Letters-July 5, 2007

    Rethink plans for theater To the editor:    We represent a very concerned group of residents, parents, students, teachers, theater professionals and local performing arts groups.    We are also members of the community that is paying, via taxes, for the new theater at South Hunterdon Regional High School.    Input from this group of "stakeholders" has been…