Highland Park News

ANNA'S HEALTH FOOD CENTER Address of business: Establishing a new business is hard.

When Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, delivers his Saturday-morning sermon at the groupa s biennial conference, he sets the movementa s priorities for the coming two years.

I would like to thank the voters of the 17th Legislative District - Milltown, North Brunswick, New Brunswick, Highland Park, Piscataway, and Franklin - for your support and confidence you have placed in me.

Photo by Tom Howell Jr. From left, Jake Weissman, Isaac Gabel-Frank and Josh Price arrive at Weissman's Lake Owassa family summer home upon their completion of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Frankford and then from Maine to the same finishing point.

Senior forward Leah Salkin snapped a scoreless tie by converting a penalty kick late in the second half Wednesday afternoon as the Highland Park High School girls soccer team defeated Florence 1-0 in the NJSIAA Central Group I quarterfinals.

State Assemblyman Samuel D. Thompson, D-13th, called the election of Chris Christie as governor "a major change in direction" for a state Legislature where Democrats have enjoyed majorities in both houses along with Democratic governors going back to the days of Gov.

A yard sale will be held on Saturday October 31 at 317 Dennison Street in Highland Park to benefit Cattitude Inc, a Highland Park-based non profit animal rescue group.

One Republican and two Democrats are vying for two open Borough Council seats. The terms of incumbents Richard Weber and Richard Dyas will expire at the end of this year.

Incumbent Democrats Jeffrey Morris and Gary Minkoff are running for reelection to the Borough Council on Tuesday.

More than 1,000 protesters stood in the rain this morning outside New Brunswick High School and Rutgers Hillel to voice opposition to the message of six members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church.

It's one thing to eat a cookie decorated like a human skull or tear into the sweet, eggy pan de muerto, or bread of the dead, both staples of Day of the Dead celebrations.

A Highland Park man was arrested Thursday after leaving his 3-year-old sleeping daughter in his locked car while he was inside Sam's Club, police said Monday.

Before passing by the tree-lined sidewalks and the black lampposts adorned with scarlet "R" banners, drivers and pedestrians who enter the city from Highland Park will most likely be greeted by something else - an unfinished sidewalk, temporary street signs and rows of orange and white construction barrels.

Elementary school students in New Brunswick, Piscataway and Highland Park are in for a treat Friday when the Cook/Douglass campus Residence Life and university student organizations host the 6th annual Monster Mash.

New Jerseyan Avital Strausberg found her way to Judaism and Mechon Hadar, North America's first full-time egalitarian yeshiva, through her interest in sustainable farming.

Daughters of Penelope to Hold Annual Tricky Tray Proceeds to Benefit Various Local Charity & Scholarship Funds Daughters of Penelope to Hold Annual Tricky Tray Proceeds to Benefit Various Local Charity & Scholarship Funds PISCTAWAY, NJ - The Daughters of Penelope, Tethys Chapter #229 will be holding its Annual Tricky Tray fundraiser, Friday, ...

Three firefighters received minor injuries after responding to a three-alarm fire early Wednesday morning, a fire official said.

In the fourth bias incident to hit the Middlesex County Jewish community since Rosh Hashana, about 15 swastikas were found scrawled on a slide at an Edison park.

When Joe Schilp of Piscataway was watching the news Friday morning and heard that President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, he thought it was a spoof.

The borough has long been home to stores like Ten Thousand Villages, Centerpiece Gifts and Through The Moongate, which have engaged in 'fair trade' practices at different levels.