Category: archives

  • Rams boys’ lacrosse works way through first varsity season

    Team was winless this spring, but to expect anything else would have been unrealistic By: Neil Hay    With so many obstacles and challenges in the program’s first year of varsity existence, it is a tribute to the players and coaches that Hightstown boys’ lacrosse made it through its rookie season and will be back for…

  • Concordia congregation to honor accident victims with new Torah

    Scrolls to be dedicated this weekend in honor of seniors who died in bus accident in Chile. By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — In honor of the holiday of Shavuot, the Jewish Congregation of Concordia/Monroe has obtained a new Torah scroll that will be dedicated to the memory of those who perished in a bus accident…

  • Legacy safe with MHS seniors

    Cougar softball eliminated in sectional semifinal By: Justin Feil    On Wednesday, the day after the Montgomery High School softball team was eliminated from the state tournament with a 5-3 loss to Cranford in the North Jersey, Section 2 Group III semifinals, Johnny Rooney let the four Cougar seniors run the team in the season-ending game.…

  • Princeton High students laud Princeton University prep program

    Three seniors are college bound with a big boost from "PUPP" By: Hilary Parker    The last three summers were not what Billie Jean Pinheiro expected.    When she left her native Brazil in September 2002 to join her mother in Princeton, Billie Jean spoke little English — "A few phrases, and that was it," she said…

  • Henson, young Hun crew eye future

    Raiders boat reaches national semifinals By: Justin Feil    Phil Henson has done pretty well regardless of what boat he’s in, or who’s in the boat with him.    It’s an encouraging sign for the Hun School boys’ crew team’s future as Henson prepares to row again in a boat with new faces.    Henson completed his junior…

  • Gussied up genius

    New show on Einstein debuts at Landau’s By: Hilary Parker    The largest photograph adorning the walls in the new, professionally curated Einstein exhibit at Landau’s Nassau Street woolens store is an image of the great thinker himself, perched on the steps of his Mercer Street house — wearing big, fuzzy slippers.    Given the presence of…

  • Obituaries

    For the week of June 2 Dougald L. McMillan Jr.    HIGHTSTOWN — Dougald L. McMillan Jr., 76, died May 24 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton.    Born in Chattahoochee, Fla., he was raised in Tallahassee, Fla. and lived in Mobile, Ala. before moving to the East Windsor area 38 years ago.    Mr. McMillan…

  • Kushner has faith in sophs at state doubles tournament

    By: Ken Weingartner    Jim Kushner knows Matt Sepe and Kevin Murtha will face a tough road in the NJSIAA doubles tournament.    He also believes the sophomores will be ready.    Sepe and Murtha are scheduled to play the first doubles team from Eastern in their tournament bracket Saturday at Veterans Park in Hamilton. The winner of…

  • Monroe police nab burglary suspect

    New Brunswick man charged with breaking into two houses. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — A 35-year-old New Brunswick man was charged with two counts of burglary May 26, less than an hour after police received reports that two houses in the Fairways at Forsgate development were broken into, police said.    Corey Skinner of Quentin Avenue…