• ROBBINSVILLE: Softball 12’s back in state Final 4

    Borowski’s girls will open play Friday night at host site Allentown By: Kyle Moylan Sports Editor     Three of the teams competing in Section 3 went home after the softball tournament was completed. The Robbinsville 12-year-old girls are heading a couple of miles down the road.     By winning the Section 3 Tournament this past…

  • MONROE: Stained glass windows commemorate rebbe’s life

    By Natalie Lescroart, Staff Writer    MONROE— Maurice Mahler and Howard Barr, both of Monroe, volunteered their time and joined creative forces to beautify the Chabad Jewish Center with carefully crafted stained glass windows in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Lubavitcher rebbe’s passing.    The Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, died in 1994. According…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Giselle, dance retailer, forced out of Kingston

    by Lauren Otis, The Packet Group    Today Victoria Rogers operates her business, Giselle Dancewear, out of several shoulder-high cases in the lobby of Princeton Ballet School in the Princeton Shopping Center.    Her eight employees are gone. The changing room is a makeshift curtain strung next to the cases. Her revenues have plummeted, a quarter of…

  • Pennytown unkempt

    Helen Spencer, Hopewell Township    After reading the comments in last week’s issue by Paul Pogorzelski regarding badly kept properties that were not being adequately maintained by not having the grass cut, it brought to mind the Pennytown property.    I understand that somehow the township is involved with that property and I can’t tell you how…

  • PRINCETON: PRSD superintendent gets 5-year pact

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer   PRINCETON —   Princeton Regional Schools Superintendent Judy Wilson will be paid a $220,480 salary under a new five-year contract ratified by Board of Education members Tuesday.    The new contract puts the leader of one of the state’s top school districts among New Jersey’s highest-paid school administrators.    ”I am delighted to…

  • Misleading myths cloud health debate

    Claire Edelman of Monroe     As health care continues to be one of the most talked about issues today, I hope that consumers are not being misled by some of the myths that have been circulating.    First of all, none of the major health care reform plans being considered call for repealing Medicare. AARP and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Millstone’s Hewitt to join school board

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    Margaret Hewitt, former president of the Millstone Borough Board of Education, spent 35 years serving on her town’s board when the state eliminated the non-operating district July 1.    Though several upheavals made her reconsider serving, she never backed away — and she’ll continue serving her community as its representative to…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Local acts to take stage for local cause

    By Eileen Oldfield, Staff Writer    It’s local music, a local venue, and a local cause—the sixth annual Sourland Music Festival, set for Saturday, features five musical acts from the Sourland Mountain region.    The festival will take place from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, on the Polo Field at the Hillsborough Country Club on Wertsville…

  • MERCER COUNTY: Chambers form special group to address business interests

    Committee Chairman Patrick Ryan, who also is chairman of Hopewell Valley Community Bank, is ready to move the committee forward    The Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce, Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce and Metropolitan Trenton African American Chamber of Commerce have formed a Joint Legislative Committee.    The goal of the committee is to address legislative initiatives…

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