Category: archives

  • Leader on the links

    Motherway shoots 49 to lead Cougars By: Bob Nuse    Once Meaghan Motherway caught the golf bug, she took off and ran with it.    Motherway, a junior at Montgomery High, first heard there would be a girls’ golf team at Montgomery while she was in the eighth grade. She wanted to be a part of that…

  • Building her own legacy

    Hun’s Appelt hopes to follow in sister’s footsteps By: Justin Feil    The comparisons to her older sister are bound to come, and Sarah Appelt isn’t quite hiding from them.    For one, the junior midfielder wears No. 19 for The Hun School girls’ lacrosse team, the same number that older sister Amy now sports for the…

  • BREAKING NEWS: Two incumbents, one newcomer win BOE seats in Lawrence; budget passes

    Board of Education incumbents Laura Waters and Leon Kaplan won second terms on the Board of Education, along with newcomer John Gregg. By: Ledger Staff Board of Education incumbents Laura Waters and Leon Kaplan, who have just completed their first three-year term on the board, have been officially named winners of the Board of Education…

  • Work under way on new Princeton University building

    Slated for completion in August, 2008, it will be located near the Mudd Library off Olden Street    Princeton University has begun construction of a new building for research and teaching that bridges engineering and the social sciences.    Work started on the building in March and completion is scheduled for August, 2008. It is located between…

  • Voters approve South Hunterdon Regional budget

    Race for three school board seats uncontested. By:    Voters Tuesday approved South Hunterdon Regional High School’s $9.86 million budget, 511-427.    Running unopposed for three-year seats on the regional school board were Marie Collins, Lambertville; Rick McDaniel, Stockton; and David Beaumont, West Amwell.    For details, see Thursday’s Beacon.

  • OBITUARIES, April 17, 2007

    Howard Menand Jr., Paul H. Erler, Ruth Wyatt, Judith Henschel Howard Menand Jr. Retired university professor     MONTGOMERY — Howard Menand Jr., a longtime Princeton resident, died April 9 at Stonebridge at Montgomery. He was 92.    Before moving to Stonebridge in August he had resided at Meadow Lakes in Hightstown for 14 years.    Born in…

  • Where’s the ark?

    Major flooding hits Princeton area    After what some officials said was the fiercest storm since 1999’s Hurricane Floyd, most area municipalities morphed into islands on Monday as roads turned into rivers and sidewalks became streams.    Just as acting Gov. Richard Codey declared a state of emergency in New Jersey, all area school districts, including Princeton,…

  • Polls close at 9 p.m. tonight for school board elections

    Budgets up for approval in three area districts    Area school officials are hoping that a flood of voters today will follow Sunday and Monday’s flood of water as polls open for school board elections and budget votes.    Here is a rundown of what is in store for voters in the three Packet area districts: Princeton…

  • Major local swindler gets five years

    Martin A. Armstrong headed Princeton Economics International in the 1990s By: Lauren Otis    Martin A. Armstrong, who in the 1990s headed Princeton Economics International in West Windsor, which was subsequently revealed to be a $3 billion Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to 60 months in prison after pleading guilty last August to charges of conspiracy to…