Category: archives

  • ‘Dreams of Tourmaline’

    Eden’s winter gala warms hearts with record-breaking donor support By: Christian Kirkpatrick    The weather this month may have been variable, but in the Hyatt Regency on Saturday, it was arctic. No, the heating system was not on the fritz. The Eden Dreams gala committee was responsible for the cold snap. It had transformed the hotel…

  • PHASE THREE by Arnold Bornstein: Super Days beyond the Super Bowl

    Planning social events all year long may be hectic but it means having something special to look foward to. By: Arnold Borstein    Next weekend will include Super Bowl Sunday. Is this event a super day in your leisure schedule? If not, it still appears that this TV happening has become one of the year’s major…

  • Richard Newell Sr.

       Richard G. Newell Sr., 75, died Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Care One Nursing Home in East Brunswick.    Born in Linden, he lived in New Brunswick and then East Brunswick for 35 years, moving to the Rossmoor adult community in Monroe three years ago. He was a life insurance salesman for New York Life in…

  • West Windsor approves Hilton hotel, office park

    Project to be built off Route 1 and Meadow Road By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — The Planning Board approved plans Wednesday for a Hilton hotel and office park off Route 1.    Switzenbaum Realty Capital’s plan for the development, known as Greenview Corporate Park, includes a 160-room, six-story Hilton Garden Hotel and four office buildings.…

  • Spratt, Tartans stay strong against PDS

    Junior, Stuart hoops battle losses By: Justin Feil    The Stuart Country Day basketball team is starting to put everything together.    So is Caitlin Spratt, a junior on the team who has been a valuable part for the Tartans after coming back from hardship.    Last year was a rough year in general for me, Spratt said.…

  • Township delays action, waits for ball-fields money

    Resolution seeks $50,000 grant for ball fields By: Vic Monaco    EAST WINDSOR — The Township Council has delayed approval of a bond ordinance to fund capital purchases in hopes of getting yet another state grant to add to the ordinance.    The $50,000 grant is earmarked for a $200,000 project to build new playing fields at…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: A conspiracy so immense

    "Clean elections" could disinfect political campaigns, which breed corruption. By: Hank Kalet    The body politic is infected.    Washington under the current regime has been contaminated by a culture of corruption, one in which power and money mix in an awful brew that distorts the political process. Members of Congress get money for their campaigns and…

  • They’re Baaack!

    McCarter Theatre’s William Lockwood brings the best of the year’s cinema to the Princeton University campus for a ‘Second Chance.’ By:Elise Nakhnikian    "I’m encouraged that people still believe there’s something to be gained by seeing movies with other people that they’re willing to go out — sometimes in the bitter cold — to see them…

  • Bunn Drive condo hearing delayed

    By: Marjorie Censer    The Princeton Township Zoning Board of Adjustment was forced Wednesday to postpone an application for 98 age-restricted condominiums on Bunn Drive.    The plan, filed by Morgan Estates LLC of Morganville, calls for three 45-foot-tall buildings on a heavily wooded, 14.1-acre site just south of Princeton Community Village and behind the Governors Lane…