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The league, including Central Jersey franchise Sky Blue FC, will instead focus on resolving their legal disputes with Florida entrepreneur Dan Borisow, owner of the magicJack team.

For six weeks the borough's Board of Education has explored the possibility of opening Highland Park High School to students residing in nearby towns. As more details of the state's Choice District program have been discussed, the proposal has sparked controversy.

The year 2011 began with Highland Park digging out from a late December blizzard, beginning another snowy winter. The long-awaited Raritan Avenue sidewalk improvements finally began, a popular teacher was jailed for sex crimes, and controversy surrounded a proposed charter school. Arts and culture continued to flourish, and the Occupy movement inspired local activism and participation.

In observance of the Christmas holiday, the Highland Park Public Works Department will be using the following schedule:

Greentopia is the new name of the health food store known for 22 years as “Anna’s.” The new name was chosen by new owners Henry and Susan Seo, who recently purchased the store at 401-403 Raritan Avenue.

The Seos, who live in south Edison, were the personal choice of previous owners Young and Anna Pak, who recently retired. The Paks “wanted a dependable person” to take over. Henry and Susan, who both immigrated from Korea in the 1990s, decided to go ahead with buying it even though they had never managed a store before.

In the wake of November's store vandalism, members of Highland Park's Jewish community packed the council chambers on December 6, in the body's first public session since September. Community leaders and representatives expressed thanks to municipal authorities, particularly to the police, for the prompt investigation and arrest in the case. Steven Rizco, Chief of Police, was in attendance.

Among the 21 resolutions approved during the session, mayor-elect Councilmember Gary Minkoff sponsored a designation of November 29 as the borough's Religious Tolerance observance.

The Vietnam War was finally ending. Richard Nixon was in the White House, the Civil Rights and Feminist movements had taken to the streets, and a group of young mothers who just wanted some time to talk began meeting at the Unitarian Society in East Brunswick.

Some are still meeting today (though all the kids have grown), and through the month of December they will be exhibiting Timeless Views: A Mixed Media Show at the Highland Park Public Library.

At New Jersey Repertory's intimate 60-seat theater in Long Branch, the atmosphere is warm and friendly. You are greeted and seated by name. Everyone, from producer Gabor Barabas to the person seated beside you, smiles as though you’ve always known one another.

You begin to get the sense that you are a guest inside someone’s home; it is not until you look to the stage that you realize that you've been invited into the trailer park palace of Maude Gutman.