Category: archives

  • Letters to the editor

    From the Sept. 1 edition Explaining process for IACC project To the editor:     I am replying to Mr. Pohl’s letter in the Aug. 18 edition of your paper, which seems to reveal his confusion surrounding the procedures pertaining to the land use process in New Jersey.    At present, the BAPS property is located in…

  • ‘Technical Detours’

    The Zimmerli Art Museum explores the early works of László Moholy-Nagy.    The diverse creative output of László Moholy-Nagy, a pivotal figure in the history of modernist art, will be explored in the exhibit Technical Detours: The Early World of Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick Sept. 1 to Oct. 31.    The…

  • Parents help their MTHS seniors prepare for the future

    Parents worried, yet confident, about children entering senior year By: Lacey Korevec    The parents of 333 students going into their senior year at Monroe Township High School are likely filled with mixed emotions as their children embark on the beginning of the end of their high school days.    Senior year is packed with milestones like…

  • Cushman hopes to pig out on more wins

    By: Ken Weingartner    Ryan Cushman has tasted victory.    Last year was a cornucopias buffet of wins at which Cushman was a glutton. If victories were 1,000-calorie meals, he would have ended up looking like Ruben Studdard.    There was a school-record seven wins as quarterback of the Monroe High football team, which was merely an appetizer.…

  • Council to vote on housing transfer

    Affordable housing may be given in part to two other towns By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — The Township Council agreed Monday to place a resolution on next week’s agenda to transfer part of its affordable housing obligations to New Brunswick and Perth Amboy.    Monroe would pay the two cities a total of $11.35 million to…

  • Living Dolls

    Brides, ballerinas or goddess-like sprites with flowing hair in colorful Korean costumes are the creations of Robbinsville resident Jungsun Yu. By: Susan Van Dongen    Jungsun Yu traveled to Korea to study martial arts, but returned to the U.S. with dreams of creating dolls instead.    Now the Robbinsville resident handcrafts lovely cotton dolls, clothed in equally…

  • New teachers learn about district, gain confidence

    Training program helps new hires get into roles By: Lacey Korevec    As she walked into Monroe High School for her first day of teacher training, Jennifer Rebelo, who will teach sixth grade at Woodland School, was nervous.    "I was feeling anxiety," she said. "I was intimidated. I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know…

  • Doc’s WWII photos have a new address

    Slide show at library prompting memories By: Dick Brinster    HIGHTSTOWN — Photos of local World War II heroes that once graced a wall in a place known as the Sweet Shop are surviving long after the death of the old soda fountain and most of the soldiers themselves.    Horace "Doc" Embley, who owned the store…

  • Jantz gets Hightstown HOF nod

    By: Sean Moylan    Carl "Chris" Jantz is a humble and affable man.    In fact, if he had to make a case for himself, Jantz would probably never receive induction into the Hightstown Athletic Hall of Fame because of the way he downplays his many accomplishments. Yet the young men who played soccer with Jantz and…