Category: archives

  • WW-P lacrosse team bridges an inner-city gap

    Team takes part in program to bring the game to Trenton By: Emily Craighead    Steve Czelusniak’s lacrosse team was on the road last week, not for an away game — the season is a month away — but to share the sport with elementary school students in Trenton.    Members of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North’s…

  • Quaker Road bridge repairs approved

    Historic commission signs off on design By: David Campbell    The Princeton Township Historic Preservation Commission on Monday signed off on a design for renovation and reconstruction of the historic Quaker Road stone bridge off Route 206, which has partially collapsed and is currently closed.    In December, one side of the stone arch culvert failed and…

  • Claremont residents’ grievances heard

    About 30 residents met with EPA representatives and borough leaders in hopes of getting help with problems related to the environmental cleanup of their neighborhood. By: Melissa Edmond    Mary Adamcik has endured a lot during the six years that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s cleanup of the creosote contamination in her neighborhood has been going…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

       A fuel tank was stolen from a construction site at Pine Hill court in the K. Hovnanian planned adult retirement community near the intersection of Georges Road and Route 130 in Dayton between 5 p.m. Feb. 8 and 7 a.m. Feb. 9.    The fuel tank, owned by the Taylor Oil Company and being used by…

  • Town eyes East Village area task force

    Panel to focus on areas east of Route 130 near Davidsons Mill and Deans Rhode Hall roads. By: Joseph Harvie    Township officials want to address the concerns of residents in the eastern section of town regarding issues such as stormwater management, truck traffic and historic preservation.    Mayor Frank Gambatese said Tuesday the township will set…

  • Richard Raymond Kowal Sr.

       BRIDGEWATER — Richard Raymond Kowal Sr. died Feb. 11 at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. He was 77.    Mr. Kowal was born in Manville and had lived there until moving to Bridgewater in 1995.    He served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 through 1949 and in the Naval Reserve until 1953. He was a tractor-truck operator…

  • Township hoping for grant money

    Township officials are concerned that due to proposed federal budget cuts, South Brunswick may not receive the $88,200 grant it requested from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. By: Joseph Harvie    The township is hoping to get the same amount in grants from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development this year…

  • Mustangs can’t contain Technology

    Newark school rolls again By: Shawn Tyrrell        There have been few easy games during the course of the season for the Manville High boys’ basketball team. Last Friday was no exception, when the struggling Mustangs played host to visiting Newark Technology in a rematch from early in the year that saw the Panthers roll…

  • Editorial for the week of Feb. 16

    Timely storm reminds us of wintry marvels By: Rob Heyman    Call it Lincoln’s Revenge. Or the pre-St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 2006. Or the You’re In Turin Reality Show.    Whatever it was, the storm that dumped more than a foot of snow across Central Jersey over the weekend certainly shook up a region that had…