Category: news/windsor_hights_herald
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POLICE BLOTTER for the week of 12/4
The East Windsor Township Police Department initiated the following police reports through Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015. Luis G. Orosco-Malla, 43, of Windsor Castle Apartments, was arrested at 2:39 a.m. Nov. 22 on Route 130 South and charged with DUI, reckless driving, careless driving, failure to maintain lane and for being an unlicensed driver. An officer…
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WHAT’S GOING ON for the week of 12/4
Fri., Dec. 4 LEGO Club Friday, 10:30 a.m., at The Plumsted branch of the Ocean County Library, 119 Evergreen Road, New Egypt, N.J. For ages 3 to 11. Images of Cranbury, 7 p.m. at the Cranbury Public Library, 23 North Main Street. Cranbury resident and photographer David Nissen will present a journey through the…
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CENTRAL JERSEY: Driver escapes injury when tractor-trailer hits guardrail, bursts into flames on turnpike
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer The driver of a tractor-trailer truck escaped injury after it struck a guardrail near mile marker 69.4 on the New Jersey Turnpike and burst into flames early Monday morning, according to the New Jersey State Police. Blaise Marckesano, 56, of Shirley, N.Y., was traveling north on the New Jersey Turnpike…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Pop Warner cheerleading team is Disney bound
By Amy Batista, Special Writer TRENTON – The Hightstown Pop Warner Cheerleaders took first place recently at the 2015 Pop Warner National Cheer & Dance Championship and are headed to DisneyWorld to compete at the national competition next month. But the group still needs help raising funds to get there. “Those girls have shown us…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Engineer hired to rehab Kreps athletic fields
By Amy Batista, Special Writer HIGHTSTOWN – The Board of Education appointed a civil site engineer to rehabilitate the Kreps Athletic field during its meeting last week. “I want to take a moment and just thank you for listening and taking action for our request at the last board meeting,” said Andrea Baverov, of East…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Floodgate no longer operating properly
By Amy Batista, Specail Writer HIGHTSTOWN – Council discussed concerns over the automated floodgate that is no longer operating properly at the Peddie Lake dam during its meeting on Nov. 16. The floodgate is designed to follow water levels up and down and to open or close based on those water levels. But according to…
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HIGHTSTOWN: First Reading Oasis Room opens at Rogers Elementary
By Amy Batista, Special Writer HIGHTSTOWN – The Grace N. Rogers Elementary School celebrated the opening of the first Reading Oasis Room in the county with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week. “I would like to thank the board of education and the East Windsor Education Association for bringing this grant to our school,” said Principal…
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EAST WINDSOR: Students prepare bagged lunches for local food pantry
By Amy Batista, Special Writer EAST WINDSOR – Students at the Melvin H. Kreps spent their early Saturday morning recently doing community service instead of sleeping in. Approximately 130 students participated in the Service Saturday held at the Melvin H. Kreps Middle School from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., where they spent the morning Nov. 21…
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HIGHTSTOWN: Legion Post 148 donates to state project for veteans
Hightstown American Legion Post 148 recently played host to State Commander Mike Babli’s official visit to Mercer County. At the meeting, Mr. Babli explained the elements of his four-phase state project to aid homeless veterans at Veterans Haven North and South, and the families of those being interred at the BG William C. Doyle Cemetery,…
