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  • Falcons off and running at Spiked Shoe festival

    By: Sean Richards    After its initial opener was cancelled due to bad weather, the Monroe High School winter track team got its season off to a promising start Monday at the Spiked Shoe Holiday Festival. Competing at the 168th Street New York Armory in New York City, the team broke several school records despite the…

  • Trump’s new hire has truly inspired

    Hightstown High School Alumnus trumps competition on "The Apprentice" By: Kip Berman    HIGHTSTOWN — He was the basketball star who asked his coach permission to dunk.    He was the towering student who let his diminutive French teacher dance on his feet.    He was the future Rhodes Scholar who never once tried to show up his…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Hun’s Gratch ready for any assignment By: Justin Feil    Emily Gratch can shoot, rebound and dribble, but it’s all the less glamorous things that make her so valuable to the Hun School girls’ basketball team.    "Defensively, I put her on the toughest assignment, guard or forward," said Raider head coach Bill Holup. "As long as…

  • KIDS AND THE COMMUNITY by Judy Shepps Battle: Fighting the addictions of the holidays

    Seasonal stress may lead to unhealthy ways of coping. Judy Shepps Battle    Holiday Season 2005 has arrived.    Store aisles overflow with Chanukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa items that are already marked down. Mall parking lots are full and mail carriers stagger under the load of festive catalogs. Supermarkets offer a free turkey for "X" amount of…

  • Public works staff to get raise

    The Borough Council unanimously approved a contract, giving giving four public works employees a raise of 4.24 percent annually over the next three years. By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — The borough’s four public works employees will receive pay increases averaging 4.24 percent annually over the next three years and be eligible for benefits through the…

  • OBITUARIES, Dec. 23, 2005

    Anna S. Zvir, Cleo M. Atchley, Veronica L. Becker Anna S. Zvir Businesswoman and volunteer     PLAINSBORO — Anna Soroka Zvir died Dec. 14 at home. She was 87.    Born in Holyoke, Mass., she was a longtime resident of Floral Park, N.Y., and was a resident of Plainsboro for the past eight years.    She was…

  • DISPATCH: ‘Tis the season for a "manufactured crisis"

    Media’s so-called attack on Christmas may just be paranoia. By: Hank Kalet    America is being ruled by a left-wing cabal, a secular progressive movement so influential it can use its power over the media to crush Christmas.    At least that’s what folks like Bill O’Reilly and Ben Stein would have you believe.    The argument goes…

  • Moseley gives PHS fast start

    Senior scores two goals in girls’ hockey win over Stuart By: Justin Feil    Carley Moseley has some advice for the first-time players on the Princeton High girls’ ice hockey team.    "Stick with it," said the PHS senior. "It definitely has been one of the highlights of my high school career. I’ve had such a good…

  • Esther Gominger

       Esther (Drourr) Gominger of Monroe died Saturday, Dec. 17, at Cranbury Care Center, Monroe.    Born and raised in Perth Amboy, she lived in Elizabeth before moving to Monroe two years ago. She was a homemaker.    Her husband, Frank Gominger, died in 1962. Five brothers, Philip, Samuel, Charles, Carl and Benjamin Drourr, and a sister, Bes…