Category: archives

  • Shepherding her Flock

    Susan MacQueen’s love of all things furry has led to a wild and woolly obsession in her artwork. By: Ilene Dube    You know that Susan MacQueen makes sheep, so as you drive up the Hopewell road looking for her studio, you search the surrounding countryside for the woolly creatures that may have inspired her. No…

  • HISTORICALLY SPEAKING

    Allentown, N.J. – its Rise and Progress (Part 41) From the NJ Historical Society’s C.R. Hutchinson collection, the following cites family records of Allentown Presbyterian Church’s founders. John Chambers, who represented the Allentown Church at Presbytery in 1738, and who was elected an elder in 1744, is not clearly identified. May 28, 1702, Robert Burnet…

  • Frederick Emil Klett Jr.

       Frederick Emil Klett Jr., 79, died June 14 at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville.    A resident of Hopewell for the last 43 years, he was active in several civic and community organizations.    Born in Elizabeth, he moved with his parents from Elizabeth to Roselle Park, where he attended the public schools and was a three-sport letterman…

  • Archive

    June, July & Aug. 1999 Editorial: Don’t take this plan to voters Referendum price tag: $47 million Is a teachers’ strike legal? DeLucia named ‘Teacher of Year’ List of graduates List of graduates Details of the expansion plan School survey results

  • Video, cable company opens new location

    By:    RBC Cable Technologies, Inc., a firm specializing in cabling and design services for audio, video and data communications, opened a new, 6,000-square foot plant June 1 at 152 Route 206 South.    The facility houses a Demonstration Theatre, opening in July, that features a complete stand-alone room so customers to see exactly how the firm’s…

  • Census team counting pooches

    By:Audrey Levine    The biennial census of Hillsborough’s dogs that will require those residents who do not have a license to own a dog to fill out the necessary paperwork to be processed by the state began June 4 and will continue through July 27.    According to Sioban Weikel, supervisor of the dog census, the township…

  • WW-P out to fast start

    Leibowitz, Legion baseball squad is 5-0 By: Bob Nuse    Mitchell Leibowitz was hoping for a better high school baseball season.    But any disappointment he may have had about the way the season ended for his West Windsor-Plainsboro High South team is quickly being replaced by the excitement of the start to the American Legion season.…

  • PU grad Iacono follows dream

    Astros select Ivy’s top hitter in MLB draft By: Justin Feil    Sal Iacono climbs the next step in his dream today.    That’s when the Princeton University graduate reports to the Tri-City Valley Cats of the New York-Penn League. The Cats are the Short Season A ball affiliate of the Houston Astros, who selected Iacono in…

  • And now there’s only one

    Lawsuit against Madison Marquette shopping center down to a single plaintiff By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — A lawsuit brought by several neighboring businesses opposed to Madison Marquette’s Montgomery Promenade shopping center is now down to its last plaintiff, after five others have withdrawn over the course of the suit.    Attorneys involved in the case redrafted…