Category: archives

  • Peter Teifer comes close as individual

    By: Bob Nuse    Dan Trink never thought he’d be playing in a group with the top golfers at the Mercer County Tournament.    Turns out, on this day the West Windsor-Plainsboro High freshman was the best of those golfers.    After all three had shot a 1-over par 73 for 18 holes, Trink captured a playoff against…

  • Hightstown baseball rallies in 7th for first victory

    By: John Chester    The Hightstown High baseball team not only ended its 10-game losing slide this past week, it even got a mini winning streak going.    Following action this past week, Hightstown is now 2-11.    This past Friday, Hightstown rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh to beat Ewing, 4-3. John Indrikovic…

  • DOT reverses stance on West Windsor road jurisdiction

    Effort to re-stripe section of Old Trenton Road moves forward By: Nick Norlen    WEST WINDSOR — The state Department of Transportation has changed its position — Old Trenton Road in West Windsor does fall under its jurisdiction.    West Windsor Township Council voted unanimously April 30 to pass and send a resolution to the DOT calling…

  • Marilyn Hoffman

       Marilyn F. Docteroff Hoffman, 70, died Saturday, May 5, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she lived in East Brunswick before moving to Monroe five years ago.    She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Theodore Hoffman; a son, Bruce Hoffman and his wife, Candy, of East Brunswick;…

  • A ‘heart-healthy and delicious’ bill of fare

    These chefs are "passionate about food, passionate about life, and passionate about health…because of their own families’ histories of cardiovascular disease and stroke By: Faith Bahadurian    Anthony Bucco at Stage Left in New Brunswick has it. So does Bobby Trigg at the Ferry House in Princeton, and Corey Heyer at The Bernards Inn in Bernardsville.…

  • French academy to open new campus in Lawrence

    All Saints’ Church site to remain as enrollment to grow to 100 and beyond By: Courtney Gross    Approximately 60 students will greet Lawrence with a "bonjour" this fall when the Princeton French School opens a second campus on Carter Road.    The former space of the Lawrence Day School, the new campus for the bilingual elementary…

  • New Jersey should end death penalty

    By: Hank Kalet    The state Senate began considering legislation Thursday that could remove New Jersey from the long list of states with a death penalty on the books.    The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment in maximum security prisons without the possibility of…

  • Virginia Larkin

       Virginia Rehfuss Larkin, 95, of Cape Coral, Fla., died Saturday, March 31.    Born in South Amboy, she received her bachelor’s degree from New Jersey College for Women (Douglas College), class of 1933. For 33 years she taught Latin, French, and Spanish at Jamesburg High School. She moved from South Amboy to Cape Coral in 2000.…

  • A battle over history

    Dispatches By: Hank Kalet    The battle over Thompson Park has become a battle over history.    On the one side, we have Monroe Township and its desire to build a new high school on a 35-acre tract at the southwestern corner of the park. On the other is a freelance historical preservationist who believes the site…