Category: archives

  • Let’s get started on the job of school-funding reform

    EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK By Ruth Luse    This week, readers will get their first real dose of information about the 2006-2007 school budget, which is being prepared now for April 18 school election ballots.    School boards across the state — faced with framing 2006-2007 budgets that will need much more than trimming to make them palatable to…

  • Cardinals swim to first sectional crown

    Girls erase three straight years of frustration in Central Jersey A final. By: Justin Feil    NORTH BRUNSWICK — With a strong start, the Lawrence High School girls swim team put itself in position to win the Central Jersey A championship Monday.    But Julia Senerth wasn’t satisfied with the Cardinals’ six-point lead as she stood on…

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY by Judy Shepps Battle: Breaking the cycle of alcoholism

    Children of Alcoholics week, Feb. 12 to 18, offered an important chance for the community awareness. By:Judy Shepps Battle Breaking the cycle of alcoholism    Feb. 12 to 18 was Children of Alcoholics Week. There weren’t any parades and mail was delivered without interruption. In New Jersey, the blizzard and its aftermath filled local headlines.    Lack…

  • Anna Stepien

       HILLSBOROUGH — Anna (Moraczynski) Stepien died Feb. 18 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. She was 87.    Born in Poland, she was a resident of Hillsborough since coming to the United States in 1950.    Mrs. Stepien was a homemaker.    While living in Europe, she was employed as a teacher.    She was a communicant of Sacred…

  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

    Tommy Lee Jones’ directorial debut focuses on the indignities and dangers faced by undocumented Mexicans in the U.S. By:Elise Nakhnikian    An old-fashioned man’s man with an improbably photogenic pock-marked face, Tommy Lee Jones has carved out a cozy niche for himself in Hollywood, but he just can’t seem to get comfortable. Maybe it’s just the…

  • Farewell to Annex like bidding a friend adieu

    "Family Business" column By: Diane Landis Hackett    When my husband and I first moved to Princeton as newlyweds, we had a tiny kitchen with almost no room for a table so we sometimes ate at the Annex Restaurant on Nassau Street. The Annex had a comfortable homey feel, which made the newness of marriage and…

  • O’Connor finishes third in state shot put

    HHS junior captures second M of C medal By: Rudy Brandl    A year ago, the shot put was still something new for Taryn O’Connor. Now, the Hillsborough High junior is regarded as one of the state’s best in the event.    O’Connor added another medal to her expanding track and field resume in Sunday’s Meet of…

  • Letters for the week of Feb. 23

    Respect Master Plan, reject Gulick plan To the editor:     For the past 35years, my wife and I have lived at the southeast corner of Province Line Road and Route 206, 50 yards or so diagonally across from the Gulick property on the northwest corner. The Gulick property, of course, is the site of a…

  • New review for rail study

    Agency to weigh impact of tunnel on MOM line By: Joseph Harvie    Local officials say NJ Transit’s plan to include the impact of a proposed tunnel between New Jersey and New York under the Hudson River in the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex high-speed rail line does not change their opposition to…