Category: archives

  • HHS girls’ soccer plans to stand tall in the Valley

    By: Sean Moylan    Last week the Hightstown High girls’ varsity soccer team was just concerned with locking up a playoff berth, which it did.    But things are going so well for the Rams that they’ve turned their focus to winning their first Valley conference in over a decade.    "We’ve knocked off all these great teams,…

  • Scholarship student gets 6½ years

    Township man tried to take officer’s gun By: Dick Brinster    TRENTON — The 19-year-old college scholarship student from East Windsor who tried to take a police officer’s gun must serve 14 months of a six-and-a-half-year sentence before he can be considered for parole.    The sentence, part of a plea bargain, was imposed Oct. 6 on…

  • The second generation

    At Monroe forum, children of Holocaust survivors share their experiences of growing up By: Candice Leigh Helfand    When she was still young, Toby Kansagor learned about the life her parents had before she was born, that they both had other spouses and other children. She also learned that most of them were dead, killed in…

  • E.Coli and food-borne illnesses

    While outbreaks like the one involving spinach can be deadly and spread quickly, they are also rare. The best prevention is to follow healthy sanitation practices By: Ronald G. Nahass, M.D.    The recent national outbreak of E.coli linked to contaminated spinach grown in California highlights the dangers of food-borne illness and just how widely it…

  • 5K run on Sunday to support family of late West Windsor Lt. Hillman

    By: Milly Petrilla    WEST WINDSOR — A 5K walk and run to raise money for the family of former West Windsor Police Lt. Keith Hillman will take place Sunday in Community Park on Route 571.    Lt. Hillman, a 20-year member of the township police, recently died of acute leukemia. Proceeds from RoadDawg5K Walk/Run will be…

  • Plainsboro marks Diwali on Saturday

    By: Molly Petrilla    PLAINSBORO — People of all religions and ethnicities are invited to join Plainsboro Public Library for its 11th year celebrating Diwali, the five-day Indian festival of lights, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday.    The early-evening festivities will include a dance competition for both groups and individuals and a live traditional Hindi music…

  • Princeton professor urges Montgomery school board to stress discovery

    "The goal is to make children lifelong learners," says Daniel Rubenstein By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — In order for students to move into the 21st century successfully, they need to be taught the process of learning and exploration, and not just fact regurgitation, the township Board of Education was told Tuesday in an address by…

  • Preschool program paying off

    By: Purvi Desai    WASHINGTON — The school district’s newly integrated special education preschool program, barely one month old, is not only saving the district more than $20,000, but also generating revenue through tuition from mainstream students, the program director said on Tuesday.    According to state law, each school district has to provide preschool programs for…

  • Hunt’s boys run to 7-2

    By: Kyle and Sean Moylan    By sweeping its meet against Steinert (23-32) and Hightstown (15-45) back on Tuesday, October 3, the Allentown High School boys’ cross country team improved to 7-2 and clinched a winning season.    Beating these two teams was vital to the cause of finishing over .500 because Allentown is scheduled to finish…