Category: archives

  • Shimmering Surfaces

    Painter Daniel Anthonisen looks for the drama in everyday life in his landscapes and portraits. By: Jessica Loughery    On a blustery day a few years back, artist Daniel Anthonisen wandered through a patch of woods near Tohickon Creek in Point Pleasant, Pa., with a friend. It had been raining and the creek water was well…

  • SBHS revamps award program

    High honors awarded to best students By: Bill Greenwood    Exceptional students at South Brunswick High School will soon find their hard work resulting in more than just good grades.    This year, the school has implemented a new honor roll system that will bestow high honors to any student who maintains a 4.0 GPA or higher.…

  • Submit Engagement Announcement

    Engagement Announcement Form The information on this form will be used to prepare your engagement announcement for our newspaper. You may complete the announcement form (see wedding and engagement announcements in our paper for suggested format) or mail your announcement form to:    The Princeton Packet, Inc.    Attn: Wedding Announcements    Lifestyles Department    300 Witherspoon…

  • Cardinals start showing strength

    FIELD HOCKEY By: Mike Molaro    Familiarity, it’s been said, breeds success.    The Lawrence High School field hockey squad is starting to embody that adage as its season heads down the stretch run.    With three regular-season games remaining along with the Mercer County Tournament that begins on Oct. 21, the Cardinals (3-7-2) are starting to put…

  • Sheryl Carraher

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Sheryl (Greenstein) Carraher died Oct. 1 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. She was 49.    Born in Newark, she lived in Somerville and then moved to Hillsborough more than 20 years ago.    Mrs. Carraher was employed as the director of Choral Activity at Montgomery High School since 1996.    She…

  • EDITORIAL: Don’t rest until job is finished

    Stay the course on support for Baroni’s bill    Opponents of Route 92 have every right to feel like the Detroit Tigers.    Faced with the seemingly impossible task of knocking off the best team that money could buy, the Tigers’ team of young unknowns refused to back down, outworking the Yankees and advancing to the next…

  • Dems to keep Lynch cash

    Nix GOP calls to donate money By: Joseph Harvie    The South Brunswick Democratic Organization does not plan on returning or donating any of the cash it received from a political action committee operated by former state Sen. John Lynch, who recently pleaded guilty to bribery and tax-evasion charges.    The township Democratic committee received $1,500 in…

  • Respect lacking for SBHS

    By: Lance Manion    The fact that the South Brunswick girls volleyball team has only lost three sets in its wins this fall speaks volumes on just how dominant the Vikings can be.    And their 15-2 record speaks for itself.    Yet, the fact that South Brunswick is no where to be found among the state’s Top…

  • Martial arts school invites community to demonstration

    By: Cara Latham    BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP — Every form and technique used by a person skilled in Moo Duk Kwan revolves around 26 basic movements consisting of blocks, punches and kicks.    These movements, along with brick-breaking and a bed of nails demonstration, will be part of what community members can expect to see at an open…