Category: archives

  • Art born of illness in library exhibit

    Painting like a man possessed By: Emily Craighead    PLAINSBORO — Where the tortured images of snakes and devils, the self-portraits of a man with piercing eyes, breasts and prominent genitalia come from, Robert Justin doesn’t know.    All he knows is that since a serious bout of pneumonia last year, painting has became a compulsion as…

  • FORUM: Should the state test high school athletes for performance-enhancing drugs?

    Join the Debate    The Cranbury Press hosts a weekly forum that allow readers and users of the World Wide Web to offer their opinions on a variety of issues.    The forum is designed to encourage debate and to offer the community information about the direction residents of Cranbury, Jamesburg and Monroe want their town to…

  • Friends of the International Center of Princeton University names officers

       New officers and members of the board of trustees were installed during the annual meeting of the Friends of the International Center of Princeton University.    The officers include Anne Bolick, a resident of Pennington, who is serving a third term as president, and Maryella Hannum of Princeton in her first term as vice president.    Mel…

  • Mercedes-Benz R-Class Sports Tourer: sportwagons go luxury

    One would expect any Mercedes-Benz product to incorporate luxury into every pore, and to that end, the M-B R-Class does not disappoint By: Mike Blake    Many of us still think of station wagons as an Ozzie and Harriet car that tooled around town full of groceries and transporting kids on the way to Little League.…

  • Recall those who gave lives for our country

    EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse    Well over a million Americans have died in war during the nation’s history. Each of them gave his or her life in defense of the freedoms we cherish as a nation. Most, however, have receded into the past, lost amid the stories of generals and statesmen that make up our history…

  • Council ignores Eggerts Crossing voices, again

       Lawrence Township’s Eggerts Crossing community is one of Lawrence’s oldest neighborhoods. In many ways, Eggerts Crossing evokes some of the best of what American neighborhoods once were: a tight-knit community, where everyone knows their neighbors, where people are always ready to lend a helping hand and where children raised in the community return to raise…

  • Lawrence-Hopewell Trail expansion draws support

    Public hearing held on plan to build a 900-foot-long segment of the trail in Lawrence By Lea Kahn    A plan to build another leg of the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail through a wooded area at the edge of Lawrence Township’s Village Park met with kudos from a handful of township residents who turned out for a brief…

  • Valley citizens address the problem of underage drinking

    Meeting was hosted by Parents Council, a group of leaders from elementary and secondary public schools in the Valley    Fifty-six community leaders gathered May 18 to discuss the issue of underage drinking in Hopewell Valley at the invitation of the Hopewell Valley Municipal Alliance.    The meeting was hosted by Parents Council, a group of leaders…

  • Hayden wins twice at BC Open

    First BRHS boy to take first in two events By: Sean Moylan    Donnell "Hercules" Hayden placed first in both the shot put and the discus to become the first Bordentown Regional High School boys’ varsity track and field athlete ever to win two events at the Burlington County Open, which was held at Maple Shade…