Category: archives

  • Allentown field hockey back where it belongs

    Current winning streak has Redbirds in playoffs, working on a good seed By: Kyle Moylan    In what passes as a mini slump for Allentown High School field hockey, the team started the season 2-2.    With the team 7-2-1 and with a state playoff berth already secured, now the real season starts.    "There’s a lot left…

  • Economist Paul Krugman sees Democratic ‘storm’ at elections

    At Princeton University gathering, New York Times columnist predicts momentous changes in the next few weeks By: Alice Lloyd George    "There’s a Democrat storm surge that’s heading for the Republican levee," said Paul Krugman, prominent New York Times columnist and professor of economics at Princeton University on Wednesday. "The question is whether the surge is…

  • Getting lost in the maize

    Etsch Farm home to new corn maze By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — The Etsch family invites one and all to get lost in the autumn harvest season by taking a stroll through its cornfield maze.    After months of preparing a cornfield maze, the family gathered Saturday at its corn farm at 101 Hoffman Station Road,…

  • Towns may seek help for cop consolidation

    Local leaders suggest grant, study By: Vic Monaco    EAST WINDSOR — A local committee looking at the possible consolidation of the Hightstown Police Department with East Windsor’s force will recommend that the two communities seek a state grant and solicit proposals from companies that review such a move.    That was the word Thursday afternoon from…

  • Plainsboro Library hosts art exhibit

    Painter gives flowers a human dimension By: Molly Petrilla    PLAINSBORO — To the untrained eye, Corinne Collymore-Peters’ "Garden Portraits" art exhibit may look like three walls of beautiful flowers.    But on closer observation, her oil paintings’ blossoms and buds also represent basic human experiences: life, death, spirituality.    In fact, Ms. Collymore-Peters says the exhibit —…

  • Seminar to show methods of protection

    Safety first in Cranbury By: Lacey Korevec    When it comes to safety, there’s always more Cranbury residents can do, resident Rob Smithers said.    Community members will have the opportunity to learn the latest ways to protect themselves during the free Cranbury Homefront Security Seminar at the Cranbury Inn on Wednesday. The seminar will be hosted…

  • Practice pays off for Joshi

    PHS sophomore doesn’t let pressure get to her in semis By: Justin Feil    Priya Joshi has not forgotten the good and bad times on the Princeton High School girls’ tennis team last year.    Count a loss to Wall in the Central Jersey III final among one of the latter.    So when PHS’ biggest match of…

  • This campaign taints whoever survives the race

    By: Scott Morgan    If nothing else, the campaign being waged by the two major-party candidates for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey has now all but guaranteed that whoever triumphs will be a disrespected, ineffective and generally unpopular officeholder.    Because the only thing either of the candidates — Republican Thomas Kean Jr. and Democrat Robert…

  • Businesses like new homes

    New establishments get comfortable on North Main Street By: Lacey Korevec    Among buildings that have existed for more than a hundred years, there are two new businesses booming on Cranbury’s North Main Street.    During an autumn walk past familiar historic buildings, residents can pop in and check out the home furnishing store Patina Home and…