• HIGHTSTOWN: Borough achieves bronze cerification

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough has met the rigorous requirements to achieve Sustainable Jersey certification, according to a press release. Hightstown is one of 141 towns out of 416 registered municipalities that have attained bronze certification. The community was honored at the Sustainable Jersey awards luncheon on Nov. 18 in Atlantic…

  • EAST WINDSOR: An evening with Anne Frank’s stepsister

    EAST WINDSOR: An evening with Anne Frank’s stepsister

    Amy Batista photo. Eva Schloss, stepsister to Anne Frank, gives her presentation in October.

  • HELMETTA: NJSPCA moves to take over animal shelter

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor HELMETTA — The New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NJSPCA) is poised to take over the beleaguered Helmetta Regional Animal Shelter, according to a Nov. 19 letter. "The purpose of this communication is to inform you that it is the current intent of the New…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Pirate XC takes wild ride to MOC

    Pulimood wins group crown By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    The boys and girls teams from West Windsor-Plainsboro High South didn’t take the easy way, but both were fast enough to earn wild cards to the Meet of Champions along with WW-P North individual Yuzki Oey.    Paced by Nikhil Pulimood’s third win in as many…

  • CRANBURY: Turnpike crash kills Delaware trucker

    CRANBURY: Turnpike crash kills Delaware trucker

    Amy Batista photo. Firefighters work to extinguish three trucks that caught fire following a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike Tuesday night. A Delaware truck driver was killed in the accident.

  • WEDDING: Barnett-Medvin

    WEDDING: Barnett-Medvin

        Lauren Lee Barnett and Michael Jay Medvin were married Nov. 8, 2014, by Rabbi Joshua Goldstein, formerly of Princeton, at the Glen Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, New York.     Rabbi Goldstein, a graduate of Princeton High School, is a lifelong friend of the groom’s father and officiated at the wedding of the…

  • SOLUTIONS: New gauges needed to track global warming

    By Huck Fairman In the October issue of the journal Nature, Charles Kennel, oceanographer and former head of Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored with David Victor an article calling for climate policy-makers to "ditch the 2 degree C warming goal." He further explained this recommendation to members of The Citizens Climate Lobby on the Nov.…

  • Foundation offers thanks for Mary Jacobs event

    Brenda Fallon, president, Mary Jacobs Memorial Library Foundation  To the editor: The Mary Jacobs Memorial Library’s 9th annual Food and Wine Event on November 1 was our most successful so far. The sold out event kicked off at 7 pm with Greek Wine, Food and Live music. It was a celebration of the value…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: Week of Nov. 20, 2014

    Florence    Rashawnn Alexander, 24, of West Fifth Street, Florence, was charged with burglar and possession of a weapon Sunday at 8:33 a.m.    Police said they were called to a residence in the 700 block of West Second Street on a report of someone kicking in the door and assaulting the resident while holding a gun.…

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