Category: archives

  • Valley citizens need to help raise $500K

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    While we listen to and/or read — with great frustration — the reports about tax reform talks going on in Trenton, it is comforting, at least, to know that locally we actually can do something about issues that affect our lives.    And that we can count on people of good will…

  • Battling big rigs

    Kingston residents want trucks off Rt. 27 By: Joseph Harvie    Kingston residents are upset about a state Department of Transportation proposal that would allow large tractor-trailers to drive on Route 27.    "We’re extremely concerned that large trucks, ones that are 102 inches wide and the piggy-back double-combinations, would be coming through on Route 27 in…

  • Lawrence swimmers overachieve

    BOYS SWIMMING By: Tim Falls    The Lawrence High School boys swim team overachieved on Saturday.    The Cardinals won the closest Mercer County Championship in the history of the event, edging Notre Dame by under two points with a record-setting finish in the 400-meter freestyle relay final.    Like Lawrence has done several times this season, clutch…

  • Pennington eyes parking restrictions for The Boulevard

    A distance of 242 feet is covered by the proposed prohibition of parking on the west side of The Boulevard By John Tredrea    Pennington Borough Council voted unanimously Monday to introduce an ordinance prohibiting parking on the west side of a small street known as the South Main Street Extension or The Boulevard.    The proposal…

  • Eco-groups seek local attention to environment

    "An Inconvenient Truth" will be shown tonight at 7:30 at Adath Israel Congregation, 1958 Lawrenceville Road. Discussion will follow. The event is free and open to the public. By: John Dunphy    The truth is not always convenient.    Such is the message of "An Inconvenient Truth," the Academy Award-nominated documentary about climate change, specifically global warming,…

  • Brian Fischer working to raise a village

    Missions of mercy: Residents helping Ecuador’s poor. By: Purvi Desai    A group of area Rotary Club members has labored to help residents of a tiny village in Ecuador and is making arrangements — and collecting donations — to return this summer.    The Rotary Homes of Hope project volunteers, organized by New Jersey’s Rotary District 7510,…

  • HHS boys remain in funk

    Team looks to awaken in county tourney By: Rudy Brandl    FRANKLIN – Hillsborough High senior basketball players Tom Molarz and Bryan Humphrey found it difficult watching their teammates struggle in last Thursday night’s game at Franklin.    Molarz entered the gym on crutches with a high ankle sprain, while Humphrey remained in street clothes after a…

  • School board candidate filing deadline is Feb. 26

    Three seats are open By Ruth Luse    Hopewell Township and Hopewell Borough residents who plan to run for open seats on the Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education have until the nominating petition filing deadline of 4 p.m. on Feb. 26 to make up their minds.    The school board/budget election is April 17 this year.…

  • Celebrating black history

    Reading chain spreads knowledge of culture and history to local children By: Bill Greenwood    Students at Indian Fields School got a crash course in African-American literature and history this week.    Around 60 parents, teachers and district staff members, including Superintendent Gary McCartney, descended upon the school Monday at 8:30 a.m. to read African-American-penned stories to…