• HILLSBOROUGH: Fire trucks will bring Santa around town this weekend

    HILLSBOROUGH: Fire trucks will bring Santa around town this weekend

    Santa is coming to Hillsborough neighborhoods. He’ll make a special pre-holiday visit to neighborhoods, escorted by township fire fighters, on upcoming weekends. The fire fighters will give Rudolph and the other reindeer who pull the sleigh the weekend to rest, and the volunteers will transport Santa on one of their fire trucks. Have your cameras…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Principal Daher will stay through June 

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Principal Daher will stay through June 

    By Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL TWP. — After originally announcing he would retire at end of December, Principal Michael Daher has changed his mind and will stay on as Hopewell Valley Central High School’s head administrator to see the Class of 2016 graduate. “After recently meeting with student council officers and various staff and…

  • HOPEWELL: Borough plans year of events for its 125th birthday   

    HOPEWELL: Borough plans year of events for its 125th birthday  

    By Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL — Come the first of January, plans are for church bells to ring, balladeers to sing and Revolutionary War-era reenactors to appear. Even if they don’t, New Year’s Day is sure to be a memorable one in Hopewell as the borough begins to celebrate its 125th anniversary. Events have…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Parents will get their kids’ results of PARCC tests 

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Parents should get letters this week explaining their child’s results on the controversial PARCC tests taken in February and March. On Monday, Superintendent Jorden Schiff told the Hillsborough school board that the district had received high school data, but not 3rd through 8th grades, which was expected imminently.  Individual student…

  • GUEST OPINION: Working women and family managers

    Libby Zinman Schwartz  This past week Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Princeton dean and currently CEO of the New America Foundation, discussed her new book, “Unfinished Business, Women, Men, Work, Family” on women, careers and family at the Woodrow Wilson School of Government. She has been a guest speaker at the WW School several times during…

  • CRANBURY: Annual Tree Lighting ceremony illuminates the holiday spirit

    CRANBURY: Annual Tree Lighting ceremony illuminates the holiday spirit

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer CRANBURY – The Woman’s Club of Cranbury sponsored its annual Tree Lighting last Friday night. “The Tree Lighting and Santa was started by the Cranbury Fire Company,” said Elaine Homoky, a member of the Cranbury Lions Club, adding that it has been a tradition for more than 61 years. “Mike…

  • CRANBURY: 68th annual pancake breakfast a sweet success for Lions Club

    CRANBURY: 68th annual pancake breakfast a sweet success for Lions Club

    As the holidays roll around each year the Cranbury Lions Pancake Breakfast has become a tradition on the first Sunday of the year. And this year the tradition continued. The Lions hosted their 68th annual pancake breakfast at the Cranbury School on Dec. 6. In addition to pancakes, the Lions serve sausage, scrambled eggs, fruit,…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: New superintendent welcomed by school board

    HIGHTSTOWN: New superintendent welcomed by school board

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer HIGHTSTOWN – The new East Windsor Regional School District superintendent has been on the job for one first week and is happy that the transition appears to have gone as planned. “It’s been a great first week,” said new Superintendent of Schools Dr. Richard Katz. “It was a very smooth…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: New book attempts to unmask the hidden history of domestic terror

    HIGHTSTOWN: New book attempts to unmask the hidden history of domestic terror

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer HIGHTSTOWN – Hightstown High School social studies teacher Stuart Wexler has published his third book, and first solo book, on domestic terrorism in the U.S. and held a discussion on his research and writing methods, and what it takes to become a published author last Thursday night at the school…

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