Highland Park News

There are new ball fields, new tennis and basketball courts, redesigned paths for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, a refurbished boat ramp, new playground equipment and a slew of trees.

Just before you dribbled coffee on your Wednesday morning newspaper, you probably saw that story about how Highland Park High School will stop ranking its senior class, beyond the state-required top 10 percent.

The collection of evidence found in the home of a Highland Park woman the day after she drugged and suffocated her 6-year-old son in February 2005 was lawful, a state appeals court ruled Friday.

PUT A CAP ON IT Re: Peter Ferrara's Cap and Trade Dementia : How can we expect Obama to admit he's wrong about Global Warming? If he did, he wouldn't get billions of tax payer dollars for his ambitious social programs.

Spotswood, N.J. Academy of Music on Main Street is pleased to announce a new show at its Art Gallery at The Academy in Spotswood, NJ.

Longer lines at the nation's unemployment offices have translated into school cafeteria lines with more students getting free and reduced priced meals, federal and local figures show.

Township-based law firm Norris McLaughlin & Marcus recently welcomed David B. Cronheim and Daniel J. Ross as the firm's 2009 summer associates.

A visitor to the Delaware & Raritan Canal became one of its greatest boosters. That visitor, F. Hopkinson Smith, wrote in a major magazine, "Canalling is an ideal way to travel.

Davida Kollmar of Edison, a student at The Jewish Educational Center's Bruriah High School for Girls, has been selected as a National Merit Scholarship Finalist.

Shopping can be a science. There are the right times and wrong times to hit the mall.

There's a relatively new Web site called OldJewsTellingJokes.com, and it's pretty up front about what it offers: old Jews telling jokes.

Highland Park "Baby Food" Pantry Idea is just not for "small food." It just sort of happened.

HIGHLAND PARK, NJ, June 5, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Dr. Thomas M. Golbert, an Allergist with the Center for Asthma and Allergy, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in the treatment of asthma and upper respiratory disorders.

For a March wedding in Colts Neck, the bride walked down the aisle carrying a bouquet of green roses, green orchids and green berries filled in with ivies and succulents.

BIKERS ACROSS NEW Jersey will unite to participate in a statewide motorcycle run on Saturday, June 13, escorted by the NJ State Police to benefit child abuse prevention and join thousands of motorcyclists across the nation in honor of a 2-year-old child who was murdered and raped.

Making a movie isn't easy. Just ask Lee and Neil Selden of Highland Park, who will show their debut film, "Final Gifts," Sunday, June 14, as part of the New Jersey International Film Festival's Summer 2009 program.

Stimulus funds from the federal government have found their way to the borough's senior center - helping to expand its lunch program.

Middlesex County Improvement Authority will present M.C. Blue, the nation's first fully recyclable recycling education robot at the next meeting of the Highland Park chapter of the Alliance for Retired Americans at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 4. M.C. Blue is made from aluminum and plastic and environmentally friendly items.

Rick Black, a Highland Park resident and former New York Times reporter, has written a book of haiku, Peace and War: A Collection of Haiku from Israel .

Health officials on Thursday confirmed the first three cases of swine flu in Middlesex County, including two involving students from a private school in Piscataway and a separate case involving a North Brunswick man.