Category: archives

  • Editorial

    Patten should waive salary or end ‘challenge’ By: Vic Monaco    When is a challenge not really a challenge?    When the challenger knows it’s a safe bet that those he’s challenging won’t take him up on it.    Such was the case last month as Hightstown Mayor Bob Patten once again took the opportunity during budget sessions…

  • New way to split tax in the WW-P district heads for April vote

    Shift from equalized valuation to pupil ratios backed by officials in both townships By: Nick Norlen    PLAINSBORO — Voters in the West Windsor-Plainsboro School District will have another decision to make this April: How they’re taxed.    At its March 13 meeting, the Board of Education voted 6-0 to approve the inclusion of a special question…

  • Letters to the editor

    Borough budgeting misleads public To the editor:     The Herald reports that Candace Gallagher said the most recent reduction in the borough municipal budget was made possible in large part by moving $20,000 of Public Works spending to the separate Water/Sewer budget. She neglected to mention that the $2.722 million Water/Sewer budget now has over…

  • Spring trip gives PU a chance to fill lineup

    Gemberling looking like starter for baseball By: Justin Feil    Brad Gemberling looks at the Princeton University baseball team’s talented freshmen and can identify with their early adjustment.    Gemberling had all the physical tools coming out of Strath Haven (Pa.) High, but it took him about half of his freshman season to put everything together to…

  • Montgomery police issue St. Patrick’s Day warning

    By: Jake Forester    MONTGOMERY — Police will be out in full force Saturday, patrolling for St. Patrick’s Day revelers who are drunk behind the wheel.    "Because the holiday falls on a Saturday this year, we’ll be working even harder with sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and using undercover officers to get more drunk drivers off the…

  • Middle school’s ‘Oliver!’ rescheduled

    Storm forces cancellation By:    Tonight’s performance of the middle school’s production of "Oliver!" has been cancelled.    Tickets for Friday’s performance will be honored on any other night, or for the rescheduled performance April 13. Shows are also scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday night, and March 23 and March 24.    Anyone already holding tickets but unable…

  • DISPATCHES: State budget sings a familiar tune

    There’s a hole in the budget, dear voter, dear voter There’s a hole in the budget, dear voter, there’s a hole. By: Hank Kalet There’s a hole in the budget, dear voter, dear voter There’s a hole in the budget, dear voter, there’s a hole.    New Jersey taxpayers could be forgiven if they feel like…

  • Fundraising for buying major open-space site hits goal

    Campaign by D&R Greenway means 337-acre St. Michael’s property in Hopewell Township will remain open space By: Ruth Luse HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP – The D&R Greenway Land Trust, with lots of help from the community, beat Wednesday’s fundraising deadline, paving the way for the purchase the of the sprawling St. Michael’s property for open space preservation.…

  • Full Circle

    Artist Hanneke de Neve returns to her art school roots with abstract art. By: Ilene Dube    Gallery director C. J. Mugavero goes into the back room of Bordentown’s Artful Deposit and returns with a large black-and-white photo of a stunning blonde. "She looks like Faye Dunaway," says Ms. Mugavero. Or Christie Brinkley, back in the…