• MONROE: Students tackle world circus

    MONROE: Students tackle world circus

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    MONROE — The Barclay Brook Elementary School hosted its 10th Annual Circus Around the World May 24 in which the second graders performed acts from various countries for their fellow students and parents.    The Barclay Brook-Brookside PTA sponsored the circus with Linda Russell and Mario Zarco acting as co-chairs of…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Mielko’s 7-run cycle lifts Vikings past Piscataway

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Mielko’s 7-run cycle lifts Vikings past Piscataway

    By Bill Mielko, Special Writer    After an easy 8-0 victory in the first round of the Greater Middlesex Conference playoffs May 16, the Vikings clawed back the next day to defeat Piscataway 12-9 with Melissa Mielko driving in seven runs including a grand slam and hitting through the cycle.    In the first game, Leann Panconi…

  • Hillsborough Residents Receive Somerset County Democrats Eleanor Roosevelt Award

    Hillsborough Residents Receive Somerset County Democrats Eleanor Roosevelt Award

    Ida Ochoteco of Hillsborough is congratulated by her husband Al Ojeda, Candidate for NJ Assembly Marie Corfield (left) and former Hillsborough Township Deputy Mayor Sonya Martin.

  • PRINCETON: New police chief choice is debated

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    In addition to approving the police headcount and selection date for the police chief of the new Princeton Police Department at a joint governing bodies meeting this week, an unexpected nomination motion for the chief position was made by a member of Borough Council.    The date for the selection of…

  • Great cookie sales

    Carla MacGuigan, Hopewell Valley Girl Scout Service Team     The Girl Scouts of Hopewell Valley would like to thank Hopewell Valley for supporting our 2012 GS Cookie Sales. You bought 20,844 boxes of Thin Mints, Shortbread, Peanut Butter Patties, Carmel deLights, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Lemonandes, Thanks A Lots and Shout Outs from approximately 400 girls…

  • JAMESBURG: Stuck trucks cause delays

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor    JAMESBURG — Motorists on Route 522 in the borough were delayed twice in the last week due to trucks getting stuck under the railroad overpass, according to police.    On May 17, Anthony Frazier, of Jacksonville, Florida, wedged the tractor trailer truck he was operating under the bridge at about…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Background checks may be required for recreation workers

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    Criminal background checks for current and prospective recreation employees and volunteers in Hopewell Township would be required, if a proposed ordinance introduced by the Township Committee May 14 is OK’d.    The measure is scheduled for a public hearing and adoption vote at the committee’s May 29 meeting.    The proposal says…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: SBHS losing principal, head football coach
  • PRINCETON: Dangers of drinking, driving driven home

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    Princeton High School juniors and seniors breathed a collective gasp as police officers unveiled a horrific scene: two cars irreparably mangled from a head-on collision, smashed windshields spattered with blood and the lifeless body of a girl in a cocktail dress, splayed atop one of the car hoods.    It was…

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