Category: archives

  • Ravens offering up winter ‘cheers’

    By: Sean Moylan    With the success of the fall program, the Robbinsville High varsity cheerleading squad has only grown for the winter season.    "There are a lot of girls who are taking in the new girls on the squad (under their wings)," noted Jessica Toth, the head coach of the Robbinsville cheerleading squad. "A lot…

  • HHS boys reloaded with young runners

    Team nearly returned to M of C By: Rudy Brandl    Despite returning only one varsity starter, the Hillsborough High boys’ cross country team nearly extended its season to the same final race as last year.    The young Raiders didn’t miss qualifying for the NJSIAA Meet of Champions by much. Last year, the HHS boys made…

  • Blood drive set to help first-grader battle cancer

    Her friends at Sunnymead Elementary School are sponsoring the drive, to be held from 3 to 8 p.m. Dec. 14. By: Donna Lukiw    Annie Ryan, a Sunnymead Elementary School first-grader, looks into the camera in a favorite photo her parents have, with a shy smile and blond hair slicked back by water from the pool…

  • Michael Bochino

       Michael A. Bochino, 89, of Monmouth Junction, died Friday, Dec. 1, at the University Medical Center in Princeton.    Born in the Bronx, N.Y., he resided there until 2003. Mr. Bochino was a World War II Army veteran and a Purple Heart recipient. He retired in 1979, with over 25 years of service from the New…

  • ‘There can be no greater loss’

    Dawn Katzman’s family says Christmas was always her favorite time of the year. By: Minx McCloud    The well-kept house on Woodland Avenue in Middlesex Borough stands silent, looking lonely. A porch light burns as if waiting for its owner to come home, but she never will.    Dawn Renee Katzman, a former Hillsborough resident, was brutally…

  • Legislator seeks to make teen drivers safer

    By: Cara Latham    A local legislator is proposing the creation of a new teenage driver safety study commission to examine whether more can be done to prevent teen drivers from getting into serious accidents.    Assemblyman Joseph Malone, R-30th, said the commission would be a follow-up to the state’s graduated driver’s license law, which he sponsored,…

  • Elm Street parking measure adopted in Hopewell

    No parking on west side of Elm between Broad and East Prospect streets By Aleen Crispino    In response to complaints from Elm Street residents regarding on-street parking by patrons of the Blue Bottle Café, Hopewell Borough Council adopted an ordinance Monday prohibiting parking on the west side of Elm Street between Broad and East Prospect…

  • Yankee Doodle Tap Room

    With its famously etched tables, Gothic arches and German comfort food, this ‘rathskeller’ remains a Princeton institution. By: Kate and Tom O’Neill Yankee Doodle Tap Room 10 Palmer Square Princeton (609) 921-7500 nassauinn.com/dining.html Food: Good to very good Service: Friendly, slow, unfocused Cuisine: Updated German traditional, new American, grill standards Vegetarian and Vegan Options: Salads…

  • Letters to the Editor, Dec. 7, 2006

    A most important gift To the editor:     Experience has given me a few assurances during the month of December. The weather will be unpredictable, someone will cut me off and steal my parking space at the mall, I will endure holiday weight gain, and there will be a critical blood shortage in our area.…