Category: archives

  • Bustling flower shop settles into new location

    Moving Sweet William & Thyme flower shop to its new home was nearly a three year process for owner Amy Practico. By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — Amy Practico seemed grateful last week for the fact that a lot of men tend to wait until the last minute to place their Valentine’s Day orders.    "My father…

  • Tiger women looking for rarest of sweeps

    PU hoops at Dartmouth, Harvard By: Justin Feil    With five regular-season games remaining, Becky Brown has just a few more chances to accomplish a some big firsts.    The Princeton University senior has already helped the women’s basketball team to a 16-6 record, three more wins than it had last year in the most successful of…

  • Living Dolls

    Photographer Steven Richman gets inside the emotional center of polyvinyl women. By: Ilene Dube    You have to wonder about a guy — a lawyer, no less — who travels the world in search of gorgeous, sexy mannequins, photographs them, and writes a heart-felt introduction to a book of his images of the waxen women.    It…

  • Lions Club to hold its first auction

    Auction-goers will have a chance to bid on watercolor and oil paintings March 4, 7 p.m., in the Fellowship Hall of the First Presbyterian Church on Main Street. By: Jessica Beym    Put aside the image of formally dressed aristocrats waving their paddles and nodding their heads as the auctioneer’s staccato pattering rapidly drives bids higher…

  • PHS ice hockey ousted in MCT semis

    South, Hun also stopped By: Bob Nuse    Paul Merrow didn’t question his team’s effort. But in the end, his Princeton High boys’ ice hockey team still came up one goal short.    The top-seeded and defending champion Little Tigers dropped Wednesday’s Mercer County Tournament semifinal, 3-2, to Notre Dame. The loss left Princeton at 13-7-2 overall…

  • School tab includes tax hike

    The need for more teachers, an increase in faculty salaries and benefits, and higher tuition costs for Princeton High School are considered in the Cranbury Board of Education’s proposed budget. By: Jessica Beym    The need for more teachers, an increase in faculty salaries and benefits, and higher tuition costs for Princeton High School could mean…

  • Working hard to keep Cranbury safe

    First Aid Squad volunteers on call around the clock By: Jessica Beym    Cranbury First Aid Squad Capt. Kim Irving said it’s not unusual for three days — or sometimes five — to pass without the volunteers being called to an emergency.    Still, there is an assigned crew of volunteers on call around the clock, just…

  • Police Blotter for the week of Feb. 24

    East Windsor    Edwin E. Agosto, 19, of Hamilton and Anthony F. Mule, 19, of Trenton were charged Feb. 14 with drug offenses after police found 15 small bags of marijuana in Mr. Mule’s car, police said.    Police said they stopped Mr. Agosto’s vehicle on Route 33 after they observed that it had inoperable brake lights…

  • Barbara E. Yesaitis

       Barbara E. Yesaitis, 73, died Feb 17, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in New Brunswick, she lived in Jamesburg for 51 years.    Mrs. Yesaitis was the co-owner and operator of the Parkside Tavern in Jamesburg for 43 years. Previously, she worked for Bell Telephone in New Brunswick for five years.    She…