Category: archives

  • Letters to the editor

    Mayor stacks deck with committee To the editor:     On Aug. 1, Mayor Mironov took another unpublicized step toward stacking the deck for approval of the proposed BAPS project.    At a hastily rescheduled council meeting [it was originally posted as being on Aug. 8] attended by approximately five people, she appointed a fact-finding committee to…

  • EDITORIAL: Ethics panel is a first step in needed fix

    It is unclear whether or not this will have the effect needed    Monroe Mayor Richard Pucci is keeping his promise.    But whether keeping that promise will lead to substantive changes in local campaigns remains an open question.    The mayor announced the creation of a seven-member panel last week that will review government ethics and the…

  • Numbers tell story of success

    H-EW 13’s heading to Babe Ruth World Series By: Sean Moylan    As Chuck Petty read off the names of the teams his club would be playing in a couple of weeks in Hamilton, one had to smile with pure delight and almost disbelief.    Australia. The United States’ Southeast. The United States’ Southwest. But those are…

  • Committee: Restart talks with township

    Committee, council members want talks resumed By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — A local advisory committee, formed in January by Mayor Bob Patten, is taking borough leaders to task over halted police consolidation talks.    In a letter to the mayor and Borough Council titled "Economic Development: The Consequences of Inaction" the Economic Development Committee says the…

  • Where2ball draws even in Princeton hoop final

    Deciding game is tonight against SMB By: Mark Rosenthal    After losing the first game of the best-of-three Princeton Recreation Men’s Summer Basketball League finals by 17 points, it seemed that Where2ball.com’s improbable run in the playoffs might come to a quick end.    But instead of lying down to a talented SMB/Dr. Palmer team, consisting of…

  • Column: Small town a big baseball winner

    Montgomery building baseball reputation against big boys By: Justin Feil    For the third straight year, a Montgomery Baseball team will play in a World Series.    Pretty amazing when you consider from where the competition is coming.    The Montgomery 10-year-old all-stars open play Saturday in Lafayette, La., against the best of the youngest age group playing…

  • Student’s Holocaust oral history project heads for Washington

    WW-P High School South graduate independenly joins Adopt-A-Survivor program By: Emily Laemer    Jenna Lichtenstein was reading the newspaper one day when something sparked her interest.    Students from Hightstown and Ewing high schools were interviewing Holocaust survivors and compiling their histories.    "The students had to make a biography about them, research where they came from, find…

  • Princeton University changes IDs to combat underage drinking

    Young dependents of faculty and staff won’t be able to slip into eating clubs as easily By: Hilary Parker    While the 10 eating clubs frequented by Princeton University students are private operations, the university has enacted a change to the identification cards it provides to the underage dependents of faculty and staff in an effort…

  • Obituaries

    John J. Marion    HAMILTON — John (Jack) J. Marion, 79, died Saturday at home.    He was born in Morrisville, Pa., raised in Trenton, and was a lifelong resident of Yardville.    He attended St. Joseph’s Elementary School and graduated from Trenton Catholic High School after serving in the Navy during World War II. He then attended…