Category: archives

  • Roy G. Biv Pays a Call

    Jeanne Calo, Betty Curtiss, Graziella Valenti Smith and Marie Sturken do it up in reds, blues, yellows and all the colors in between at the Gallery at Mercer County Community College. By: Megan Sullivan    After her children were grown and her husband had died, Graziella Valenti Smith decided she didn’t want to be a couch…

  • Public look, private struggle

    Story of teen’s battle with anorexia to air on TLC Sunday evening By: Rebecca Weltmann    WASHINGTON — At 14, Marisa Meiskin looked like an average teenager. She played lacrosse and was involved in theater. She loved to study, exercise and be with her friends and family. She was even a straight-A student.    Then at 15,…

  • ‘White Trash’ Reunion

    Johnny and Edgar Winter come together on stage for the first time in a decade. By: Susan Van Dongen    How have musicians like Johnny and Edgar Winter stayed in the business and on the road, putting on killer live concerts for 40 years now?    Easy, say the brothers, known as seminal white Southern bluesmen.    "I’ve…

  • Carroll working on another NEHS baseball winner

    By: Kyle Moylan    Rich Carroll has a good idea of what the finished product will look like. It will be a disciplined team that plays fundamentally sound baseball and wins enough games to get back to the state tournament.    After years of set lineups and positions etched in stone, however, this product definitely is marked…

  • SBHS youngsters won and gained experience

    By: Ken Weingartner    South Brunswick High wrestling coach "Irish" Joe Dougherty won’t have a lineup of grizzled veterans next season, but he also won’t have this word in his vocabulary: Young.    The Vikings had only one senior in their lineup this year and compiled a 13-10 record, more than tripling their win total from 2006.…

  • Senior year: perceptions vs. reality

    Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series focusing on high school seniors, their final days at school and their plans for the future. By: Madeleine Johnson    With their high school days drawing to a close, South Brunswick High School seniors are thinking about college, prom, graduation and everything in between.    And even…

  • Second school ballot question has been trimmed

    Public hearing and final adoption vote on both spending proposals will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Stony Brook Elementary School By John Tredrea    The amount of a proposed separate ballot question for the April 17 school district election has been reduced to $375,000 from $1,714,000, following elimination of several items by a state…

  • AHS golf taking act on the road

    By: Kyle Moylan    Coming off one very successful season and expecting another, the Allentown High School golf team will be taking its act on the road in a couple of weeks.    Allentown will open the season with a match against Steinert on April 3. The team will then leave the next morning for a tournament…

  • Editor’s Journal (03.22.07)

    Arts are alive and well in central New Jersey By: John Dunphy    Come see my show.    No, that’s it. Come see my show. Need directions?    Somerset Valley Playhouse, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough. "All in the Timing," a set of one-act comedies, opening Friday, March 23. Visit www.svptheater.com for more information.    … what? That’s not enough?…