• ROBBINSVILLE: Ravens win soccer showdown

    By Bob Nuse, The Packet Group    The Robbinsville High girls soccer team knows there will be plenty of challenges this season.    The Ravens got past one of those with flying colors on Saturday night, topping previously-unbeaten West Windsor-Plainsboro North, 2-0, before a large home crowd.    ”It was great,” senior sweeper Carly Setaro said. “A lot…

  • New Canaan site is focus of Oct. 13 tour

       The Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, will be the destination for the New Hope Historical Society’s 41st annual Coach Tour.    This tract is a National Trust Historic Site spread over a 47- acre campus.    It has been a catalyst for the preservation and interpretation of modern architecture, landscape and art. It honors…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Council OKs bid for transportation grants

    By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council on Monday night approved a grant application for three transportation projects.    The application to the New Jersey Department of Transportation includes a Dinky line trail extension, New Village Road resurfacing and Edinburg Road bike lanes.    The cost for all three projects for the town…

  • Cranbury Democratic chairman endorses Goetz

    John Lecky, Chairman of Cranbury Democratic Committee To the editor: It is with great respect and admiration that I endorse Susan Goetz for Cranbury Township Council. As her campaign manager, I have come to know Susan through our continuous meetings, e-mails and phone calls, and after every encounter I walk away feeling fortunate to have…

  • PRINCETON: Walk to D.C. makes local stop

    By Heather Niccoli Staff Writer    More than 50 marchers from all over the country stopped in Princeton on Tuesday afternoon on their way to Washington. D.C., to demand labels on products that contain genetically modified organisms.    Genetically engineered foods, also referred to as genetically modified, or GMOs, are “altered at the molecular level in ways…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: SBHS alumnus stands out at Rutgers
  • MONROE: Senior from Monroe wins state art award

    MONROE: Senior from Monroe wins state art award

       MONROE — Five Middlesex County senior artists won recognition in the New Jersey Senior Citizens Art Show, including Robert Heyer of Monroe.    Their work and work from professional and non-professional Middlesex County artists over age 60, who participated in the New Jersey Senior Citizens Art Show, is currently on display at Meadows Lakes in East…

  • MONROE: Farm converts to vintage baseball field

    MONROE: Farm converts to vintage baseball field

    Chris ‘Lowball’ Lowry of the Flemington Neshanock. Photo courtesy of Daniel Shaw.

  • TRAIN wreck for health and environment

    Michael Byers    Picture a train bearing down on a beautiful maiden tied to the railroad tracks.    A dastardly villain looks on, a wicked gleam in his eye as he twirls the ends of his black handlebar moustache.    That’s the mental image conjured by the TRAIN Act, passed by the United States House of Representatives on…

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