Category: archives

  • The Madison at Ewing’s Sweetheart of a Deal program

    The Madison condos include one-, two- or two-bedroom-plus-den floor plans that measure up to 1800 square feet    The Sweetheart of a Deal program at the Madison at Ewing was so successful, American Properties, the award-winning builder of the condominium community in the Princeton Corridor, extended the incentive program longer than they had expected. During this…

  • ‘Heartbroken’ over homeland

    Twin Rivers woman pledges to help students in Jamaica By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — Although Cheryl Gomes left Jamaica with her family nearly three decades ago, a visit last month to her old hometown served as a reminder of how desperate impoverished people are in a nation otherwise known as a vacation paradise.    "I…

  • Township offer: $1.66 million for one level of garage for library parking

    Documents show effort by borough and township officials to deal with fallout from breaking free parking agreement By: Courtney Gross    Eighteen months before announcing that it could no longer afford $70,000 a year to subsidize free parking for library patrons, Princeton Township officials proposed spending $1.66 million to purchase one level of the Spring Street…

  • ‘Truthiness’

    Merle Citron blends outrage and inner peace in an exhibit with Stacie Speer Scott in Lambertville. By: Susan Van Dongen    The rock group The Pretenders had a great song in the ’80s called "My City Was Gone." Lead singer/songwriter Chrissie Hynde wrote about returning to her hometown in Ohio and finding that everything had been…

  • Monroe remembers a community pioneer

    World War II vet George Allen was councilman, farmer, firefighter. By: Lacey Korevec    MONROE — From storming the beaches of Normandy in 1944 to gardening, hunting and running a tree farm in Monroe, George Allen had a lot of stories to tell.    "Everybody liked him," said Monroe resident Tom Allen, Mr. Allen’s son. "He was…

  • Cranbury officer saves two from car fire in East Windsor

    Off-duty patrolman was on way to work when he saw a car and truck collide on Route 130. By: Lacey Korevec    Smoke was all Bordentown resident and Cranbury Patrol Officer Guiseppe DeChiara saw as he looked out into the distance.    He had just pulled one injured man out of an overturned car and knew there…

  • Family life with teens: Navigating uncharted waters

    Examining adolescence at the interface of multiple contextsFirst in a series By: Norbert A. Wetzel     John, a freshman with a worn-down demeanor, strolls into the therapist’s office last in line after his parents and siblings. Months of John’s cutting classes prompted the guidance counselor at his suburban high school to refer him for counseling.…

  • Off-duty patrolman pulls dad and infant from burning car

    By: Lacey Korevec    Smoke was all Bordentown resident and Cranbury Patrolman Guiseppe DeChiara saw as he looked out into the distance along Route 130.    He had just pulled one injured man out of an overturned car and soon found out there was another wrecked vehicle up ahead. Without thinking twice, he put the man down…

  • Rutgers freshman has big ideas for teen center proponents

    By: Dick Brinster    With suggestions from young people a major thrust of a proposal to establish a teen center in the East Windsor-Hightstown area, the school assignment of a Rutgers University freshman is getting a hard look from the man spearheading the local project.    Still, the business writing class plan of former Hightstown High School…