Category: archives

  • Get in a lime green RV and go!

    Roadtrip Nation rolls into town By: Courtney Gross    PLAINSBORO — Their destination: everywhere.    Their mission: to encourage recent college graduates and high school students to explore different avenues of life through avenues on the road.    And they were doing just that in the Princeton area this week.    Roadtrip Nation — a national Public Broadcasting Service…

  • WW council, arts group take step toward art center agreement

    Memorandum of understanding approved for use of former firehouse By: Molly Petrilla    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council approved a memorandum of understanding with the West Windsor Arts Council on Monday night following minor changes to the document.    The memorandum serves as a preliminary agreement under which the township will designate the former Princeton Junction…

  • Goodwill trip to help others

    Cranbury residents travel to Guatemala By: Candice Leigh Helfand    CRANBURY — Several residents went to Central America in August to help those in need.    George Conley, a lifelong area resident, has been taking the goodwill trip to Guatemala every year, for the past 15.    "I was a lifelong Cranbury resident, but I lived in Allentown…

  • Police on the look out for suspicious driver

    Attempts to abduct girls, police say By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — Police are looking for a man who they say tried to pick up two teenage girls walking on Avenue K at 6 p.m. Friday.    Two girls, ages 15 and 16, were walking on Avenue K near the side of the road toward Old Forge…

  • Juricic in ‘7th’ heaven

    By: Sean Moylan    Talk about great starts. Erika Juricic already has seven goals and her Hightstown High girls’ varsity soccer team is only four games into its season.    One of Juricic’s best performances came in front of her hometown fans this past Monday when she scored three goals in Hightstown’s 7-0 blowout win over Allentown.…

  • Penny Patter

    By: Bettie Witherspoon Bob Abrams is a part of our history    In 1992, we held our first charity ball to celebrate Better Beginnings’ silver anniversary. Twenty-five "Shining Stars" were named who had made a difference in our community during our existence. Bob Abrams was one of those so honored. We had never had an event…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: A choice between bad and bad

    A race in which neither horse is fit to run By: Hank Kalet    "Perhaps the most persistent of the fables from which the political process proceeds has to do with the ‘choice’ it affords the nation’s citizens, who are seen to remain unappreciative." – Joan Didion, "Political Fictions"    There are two basic storylines governing the…

  • Commerce Bank gets thumbs up

    Requirements mean building will blend in with neighbors By: Stephanie Brown    JAMESBURG — When it opens its doors at the end of 2007, the Commerce Bank will fit in nicely with its Forsgate Drive and Perrineville Road neighbors.    As a condition of its approval Sept. 14, the borough’s Land Use Board required the bank to…

  • Note found in hallway causes Princeton Day School to close for day

    "Threatening language" finally traced back to a nonthreatening event By: Hilary Parker    Princeton Day School was closed Thursday after Princeton Township police were contacted at 8:59 p.m. Wednesday by the school after a note with "threatening language" was found in the Upper School hallway, police reported.    The school was closed as a precaution while an…