Category: archives

  • EDITORIAL REPORTERS/STAFF WRITERS — Princeton, NJ

    Central NJ’s award-winning group of community newspapers is seeking staff writers. Beats consist mostly of hard news and government meetings with some opportunities for enterprise and features. The ideal candidates will possess a bachelor’s degree and have 2+ years of writing experience, computer literacy, typing proficiency. Must be detail oriented, well organized and adept at…

  • WHAT’S COOKING?

    Share your favorite family recipes & be included in: A TASTE OF CENTRAL JERSEY, Packet Publication’s first community cookbook compiled from reader recipes Deadline for recipes: Monday, May 21 Random drawing is: Wednesday, May 23 Look for it in your newspaper on Friday, June 29. Send Us Your Recipes & Be Eligible To Win A…

  • Camera as Canvas

    A lawyer weaves flora and fauna in Plainsboro. By: Jessica Demetriou    When Piedad Fontanes Bernikow was only 5 years old, she received her first Kodak camera from her father. A few years later, as she began snapping photos in the woods near her home in the Catskills, she realized that she had a true connection…

  • Robert B. Turney

       Robert B. Turney, 86, of Pennington died May 10 in St. Joseph’s Care Center, Lawrenceville.    Born in Princeton, he was a lifelong area resident.    Mr. Turney was a graduate of Princeton High School, Class of 1938.    A World War II U.S. Army veteran, he retired as a business office manager from New Jersey Bell Telephone…

  • WHAT’S COOKING?

    Share your favorite family recipes & be included in: A TASTE OF CENTRAL JERSEY, Packet Publication’s first community cookbook compiled from reader recipes Deadline for recipes: Monday, May 21 Random drawing is: Wednesday, May 23 Look for it in your newspaper on Friday, June 29. Send Us Your Recipes & Be Eligible To Win A…

  • New council in West Windsor intends to challenge redevelopment plan

    A shift in control as planning proceeds for 350-acre train station area By: Nick Norlen    WEST WINDSOR —The sweep by the "Best 4 West Windsor" slate — incumbents Will Anklowitz and Charles Morgan and newcomer George Borek — in Tuesday’s council election could have a significant impact on the redevelopment of the 350-acre area around…

  • Gunshots ring gang alarms in Princeton

    No injuries following confrontation at John and Leigh avenues By: Courtney Gross    Shots fired by an unknown gunman in the John-Witherspoon neighborhood this week marked the first gang-related gunplay in Princeton in recent memory, police said, and suggests that urban gang violence is spilling into the community.    Though no one was injured by the gunfire…

  • Cranbury School to boost security

    Cranbuyr POlice Department recommended upgrade. By: Lacey Korevec    The Cranbury school board is working on how to use a $15,000 security system that was approved for purchase May 1.    The Cranbury Police Department recently recommended that the school upgrade its security system so that all of the doors can be monitored and locked through an…

  • Joseph Sawickie, Jr.

       Joseph Sawickie Jr., 76, died Sunday, May 6, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in South River, he resided in East Brunswick for many years before moving to Monroe five years ago.    Prior to retiring in 2004, he was a planogrammer for Target Corp., Edison.    He was an Air Force veteran of…