Category: archives

  • West Windsor garbage contract approved for $2.7 million

    Five-year pact OK’d By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council on Tuesday approved a five-year, $2.7 million contract with Central Jersey Waste & Recycling for solid waste collection services.    The township will pay $535,742 each of the first three years of the contract and $551,584 during the last two years of the contract.…

  • Students set on tech front

    The use of Apple computer programs GarageBand and iMovie in Cranbury School is a success. By: Jessica Beym    Arthur Zysk could easily call himself a musician, a composer, a director, an actor and a producer. And he’s just 13.    A few weeks ago, Cranbury School music teacher Tommy Nichols found a CD sitting on his…

  • Pirates’ Peters has all-around strength

    Soph lifts girls to OT win By: Bob Nuse    It didn’t take long for Becky Peters to prove she could score points as a basketball player on the varsity level.    A year ago as a freshman, Peters averaged a team-high 9.8 points per game for West Windsor-Plainsboro High South. This year she has scored at…

  • They practiced

    Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra gets to Carnegie Hall    Fresh from Carnegie Hall, where they opened the Youth Festival of Music, the 60 high school students who make up the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra are busy preparing for their annual Winter Concert, which will be given on Saturday, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium…

  • Less office space in new mill plant proposal

    Delinquent development firm pays bills By: Vic Monaco and Kip Berman    HIGHTSTOWN – The latest plan to redevelop the former mill plant property on Bank Street significantly reduces the amount of office and retail space, addressing concerns of adequate parking and increased traffic.    However, it is still being guided, at least in large part, by…

  • Clara Lemire

       Clara C. Lemire, 92, of Monroe, died Wednesday, Jan. 11, at the Elms of Cranbury.    Born in Michigan, she lived in Somerset for most of her life before moving to Monroe. Before her retirement in 1976, she worked at Yolanda Dress Company of New Brunswick. She was a communicant of St. Anthony of Padua R.C.…

  • Monroe computer classes for seniors

    Senior citizens learn how to use basic computer commands and programs at the Senior Center. By:Audrey Levine    MONROE — The students sat at their tables Tuesday morning looking to the front of the room where their teacher was demonstrating how to use different keyboard keys and commands.    Worksheets with explanations of different steps and their…

  • Case to be made for emergency-management coordinator

    Borough Council resisting proposal endorsed by Princeton Township Committee By: David Campbell    The Princeton Regional Health Commission is gearing up to present its case to the Princeton Borough Council for an emergency-management coordinator for the borough and Princeton Township.    During the commission’s regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday night, members discussed next week’s meeting of the council,…

  • Golden Oldies

    The sexagenarians are coming! Baby boomers turn 60. By:Susan Van Dongen    Two presidents, a first lady and a couple of major divas will be doing it. So will a country music bombshell, a "parrothead" and a punk-rock poetess. Not to mention an activist actress, the "sunshine superman" and a goodly number of actors, directors and…