Tag: Hightstown

  • End Hunger 3.6 event packages thousands of bags of food for area pantries

    End Hunger 3.6 event packages thousands of bags of food for area pantries

    Hightstown Elks Lodge 1955 hosted its fifth End Hunger 3.6 meal packing event on July 17. Coordinated by members Bill Coleman and Umang Naik, and partially funded through proceeds from the Elks’ Annual Winter Calendar Raffle fundraiser, the effort included participation by members of local non-profits Be Kind and the East Windsor Area Girl Scouts…

  • Hightstown student receives P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for exhibiting excellence

    Hightstown student receives P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for exhibiting excellence

    Chloe Colleton, a 2021 graduate of Hightstown High School (HHS), was selected to receive a $2,500 STAR Scholarship from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was recommended by P.E.O. Chapter Y of Princeton. At HHS, Colleton participated in the theater and music programs as well as advanced courses in narrative filmmaking and writing, according to a prepared…

  • Hightstown student receives P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for exhibiting excellence

    Hightstown student receives P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for exhibiting excellence

    Chloe Colleton, a 2021 graduate of Hightstown High School (HHS), was selected to receive a $2,500 STAR Scholarship from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was recommended by P.E.O. Chapter Y of Princeton. At HHS, Colleton participated in the theater and music programs as well as advanced courses in narrative filmmaking and writing, according to a prepared…

  • Hightstown student receives P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for exhibiting excellence

    Hightstown student receives P.E.O. STAR Scholarship for exhibiting excellence

    Chloe Colleton, a 2021 graduate of Hightstown High School (HHS), was selected to receive a $2,500 STAR Scholarship from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. She was recommended by P.E.O. Chapter Y of Princeton. At HHS, Colleton participated in the theater and music programs as well as advanced courses in narrative filmmaking and writing, according to a prepared…

  • Hightstown High graduates learn to ‘survive’ and ‘thrive’

    Hightstown High graduates learn to ‘survive’ and ‘thrive’

    Childhood’s end came on a warm summer morning for the Hightstown High School Class of 2021, when the seniors came together for one last time as a class on June 16. The seniors gathered on the baseball diamond at Arm & Hammer Park in Trenton to mark Hightstown High School’s 106th annual graduation ceremony. The…

  • Hightstown firefighters hold fishing derby for youth

    Hightstown firefighters hold fishing derby for youth

    The Hightstown Youth Fishing Derby, part of the New Jersey “Hooked on Fishing-Not Drugs” program, was held by Hightstown Engine Co. No. 1 at Peddie Lake. The event occurred on New Jersey’s Free Fishing Day on June 5.

  • uRise Powered by PenFed offers online portal of curated content

    uRise Powered by PenFed offers online portal of curated content

    PenFed Credit Union and Rise, a nonprofit providing services in the Hightstown/East Windsor area, announced the launch of their new platform, uRise Powered by PenFed. uRise Powered by PenFed is an online portal of curated content, available at urise.njrise.org From connecting with community, managing well-being and mindfulness, and acquiring new skills and knowledge, uRise serves…

  • Hightstown, East Windsor primaries will be uncontested per ballot

    Hightstown, East Windsor primaries will be uncontested per ballot

    There won’t be any political party primary fights in East Windsor or Hightstown when the Democratic and Republican Party primaries roll around on June 8. In East Windsor, Anna Lustenberg is the only Republican Party member to have filed a nominating petition to seek her party’s nod to run for one of three open seats…

  • Hightstown to ban sale, cultivation, distribution of cannabis

    Hightstown to ban sale, cultivation, distribution of cannabis

    Businesses that want to grow, package, distribute and sell cannabis would not be permitted to open their doors in Hightstown. The Hightstown Borough Council voted 5-1 to introduce an amendment to the town’s zoning ordinance banning those businesses from opening up shop anywhere in the borough. The delivery of cannabis by a delivery service is…