• AROUND CRANBURY: Coffee House season to end

    AROUND CRANBURY: Coffee House season to end

    A piece of art by Wilma Shimer, a Cranbury artist, who is featured in two exhibits locally this month.

  • CRANBURY: Girl Scout saves choking woman

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — A Girl Scout from Cranbury saved the life of the woman driving her home from school last week.    On June 2, Linda Cody was driving her usual trip from Princeton High School home to Cranbury with Amelia Whaley and her daughter, Jenna Cody, both 16.    She took a…

  • JAMESBURG: Frank Hayes’ legend kept alive

    JAMESBURG: Frank Hayes’ legend kept alive

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    JAMESBURG — The local legend of Frankie Whitman Hayes, a catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1930s and ‘40s, might have died if it weren’t for Richard Reinhardt, co-owner of Barbara’s Unique Antique Boutique on East Railroad Avenue.    Elizabeth Hayes, Mr. Hayes’ mother, used to live in the apartment…

  • Low-Cost & Free Immunization Clinics Available

    Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders Are you and your family up-to-date on your vaccinations? Now is a good time to review your immunization schedule and get necessary shots.  The Somerset County Department of Health, as part of the Greater Somerset Public Health Partnership, is offering a low-cost community-vaccination clinic to Somerset County residents on Wednesday,…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Peddie seniors graduate

    HIGHTSTOWN: Peddie seniors graduate

    Sarah Newbury of East Windsor receives the Language Department Prize from Language Chair David Martin for excellence in study of two foreign languages. Ms. Newbury also received the school’s American Association of Physics Teachers Award for her achievements in physics. (Photo courtesy of the Peddie School)

  • WEST WINDSOR: Fast start promising for WW-P

    By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Ryan Demouth is hoping a quick start carries over into a good season for the West Windsor-Plainsboro American Legion baseball team.    Tommy Parker is hoping the scrappiness his Princeton Post 218 team has shown to open the season leads to some success down the road.    On Monday, WW-P slipped past…

  • CRANBURY: Team takes ‘Odyssey’ to world finals

    CRANBURY: Team takes ‘Odyssey’ to world finals

    By David Kilby, Managing Editor    CRANBURY — The talents and wits of seven Cranbury School fifth-graders earned them a spot in the international Odyssey of the Mind contest in Maryland over Memorial Day weekend.    The Odyssey of the Mind contest is an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Faces in the Crowd
  • Beer Fest will benefit two worthy organizations

    Kevin McConnell, of Cranbury     I felt compelled to reply the Jon Gare’s letter of June 3 and point out several inconsistencies with the truth regarding the charitable Cranbury Beer Fest being sponsored by Buy Rite Liquors on June 18.    First of all, the Cranbury FOP is not “sponsoring” the event. Rather, it is simply…

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