Category: archives

  • Candlelight concert is all-ages event

    Backyard event open to public By: Jessica Beym     Music lovers are invited to grab a flashlight, a blanket and a picnic dinner and spend the evening of Sept. 30 at a candlelight concert on Cranbury Neck Road.     For the fifth year in a row, Matt and Patty Long, of 39 Cranbury Neck Road,…

  • Local minds tackle global issues

    Seniors exchange views on pandemics during library discussion By: Candice Leigh Helfand    MONROE – Several local seniors gathered in the library last week, aiming to think globally while acting locally with an act as simple as exchanging thoughts and ideas with one another.    A panel discussion was held Aug. 25 to focus on the issue…

  • Abrams left legacy of advocacy

    By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — Bob Abrams, a former member of the Regional Board of Education for a quarter of a century, is being remembered as a champion of academics and athletics.    Mr. Abrams, 82, died of a heart attack Sept. 8 at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla., according to his wife,…

  • Same old winning story for new boys

    By: Dave Gurney    New season, mostly new players, just the same result.    The Monroe Township High School boys soccer team just continues to win, bouncing back from the departures of six senior starters and 13 players overall to start the 2006 season 3-0 overall and 2-0 in the Greater Middlesex Conference White Division heading into…

  • Bishop Ahr yanks yet another near win away from MTHS

    By: Redd E. Patrick    Monroe Township High School boys cross country coach Frank Bonich is one of the most diehard Mets fans you’ll ever meet.    That means he hates the Yankees with a passion. With that being said, Bishop Ahr must be his new New York Yankees.    When Bonich took over the Monroe Township program…

  • Revisiting history at Buckelew Day

    Locals gather for history and fun By: Candice Leigh Helfand    JAMESBURG — Area residents spent Saturday amidst 320 years of history, touring a mansion and its grounds, talking to fellow residents, and listening to the dulcet tones of a harp and flute duet — interrupted occasionally by the boom of a cannon.    All of this…

  • Downtown retail/office building wins approval, praise

    By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — Construction could begin soon on a small retail and office building described by one local leader as a "missing link" to downtown revitalization.    The Planning Board on Monday gave conditional approval to the two-story building proposed by Jeff Bond on what is now a parking lot directly across from Sun…

  • Column: Nuse Sense

    Perfect day for PU football By: Bob Nuse    Every football team begins each season with the same goal — to win every game they play.    Princeton University has been playing football since the sport’s inception in 1869. And seven times since 1922, Princeton has achieved this goal.    The Tigers begin a new season on Saturday…

  • Council OKs housing plan

    Affordable housing to be constructed By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — The Township Council approved a resolution Wednesday authorizing payment of a total of $11.35 million to Perth Amboy and New Brunswick so that the cities can build 325 affordable housing units that had been assigned by the state to Monroe.    The transfer of half of…