Category: archives

  • A Life Divided

    An exhibition at the Michener Museum shows both sides of Charles Rosen. By: Jessica Loughery    It’s almost as if the name "Charles Rosen" belongs to two different people in America’s rich art history. There’s Charles Rosen of New Hope, Pa., the successful Impressionist landscape painter who lived alongside the Delaware River with his family. And…

  • HHS gymnasts, harriers advance in state competition

    Rhoades, Lynch, Smolinka star By: Rudy Brandl    Two Hillsborough High teams and three individual athletes advanced beyond Saturday’s sectional round of competition in their respective sports.    At Hunterdon Central High in Flemington, the HHS gymnastics team finished third in the Central 2 Championships with 111.45 points. That total should leave the Raiders somewhere in the…

  • HHS girls ousted in volleyball playoffs

    Best season in brief history ends at Cherokee By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High girls’ volleyball team saw the best season in its three-year history come to an end in Friday’s second round of the State Group 4 playoffs at Cherokee.    Only in their third year of varsity competition, the HHS girls qualified for the…

  • PU football beats Penn in wild one

    Tigers take double overtime victory to stay in race By: Justin Feil Roger Hughes has been coaching the Princeton University football team for seven seasons, and been in coaching since 1982.    He could be in coaching for another 24 years and probably still not be in another game like Saturday’s 31-30 double overtime win over…

  • PHS boys break out in CJ III first round

    WW-P South, Montgomery fall in CJ IV action By: Bob Nuse    It took the Princeton High boys’ soccer team a little while to get going on Tuesday, but once the Little Tigers got started, they had little trouble putting away Neptune in the opening round of the Central Jersey Group III tournament.    "We had some…

  • Boards pan education proposals

    President says legislation would erode local control By: Stephanie Brown    Local elected and appointed school officials are wary about proposed legislation to create an executive county superintendent.    They say aspects of the proposal could be beneficial, but some officials were critical of the new executive superintendent’s authority and questioned the legislation’s cost-effectiveness overall.    Several bills…

  • The art of science — the science of art

    The Arts Council of Princeton brings together two singular worlds By: Christian Kirkpatrick    Art had a rendezvous with science Saturday night at the Arts Council of Princeton’s benefit, "Dining by Design: From Genomes to Private Homes."    The event began with cocktails in the soaring atrium of Princeton University’s Carl Icahn Laboratory, a beautiful, sinuous place…

  • William Klimowicz

       William M. Klimowicz, 86, of Monroe, died Friday, Oct. 27, at the Francic E. Parker Nursing Home, Piscataway.    Born in Whippany, he was raised in Bayonne where he attended elementary and vocational school. He moved to the Cottageville section of South Brunswick in 1950 with his wife and daughter. In 1993 he moved to Rossmoor…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Keith C. Riker, 27, of Lincoln Park, was charged with driving while intoxicated after he crashed his 1995 Oldsmobile into a tree at the intersection of Gemini and Capricorn drives at 11:11 p.m. on Oct. 22, police said.    The responding officer saw that the vehicle had heavy front-end damage and asked Mr. Riker if…