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  • State Historic Sites Council opposes Morven Master Plan application

    Recommendation to commissioner puts plan for visitor center and administrative building in question By: Marjorie Censer    The New Jersey Historic Sites Council voted Thursday to oppose Historic Morven Inc.’s site Master Plan that would add an administrative building and a visitors’ center on either side of the estate and demolish the pool, pool house and…

  • Ceremony set for Tuesday opening Eden Family of Services center

    By: Marjorie Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — Eden Family of Services is opening its fourth Work Education and Resource Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday.    The Clayton Center is located at 2031 Old Trenton Road. It will accommodate about 20 participants and five staffers. The ceremony will begin at 3 p.m.    Eden WERC provides employment…

  • New contractor hired to finish school work

    Bolandi announces finalized agreement with bonding company By: Kip Berman    HIGHTSTOWN — It’s a done deal.    Schools Superintendent Ron Bolandi has announced a finalized agreement with a bonding company to complete renovations on the Perry L. Drew Elementary School and Melvin H. Kreps Middle School and enclose the new elementary school next to the Ethel…

  • OBITUARIES, Dec. 16, 2005

    Ernest G. Schwiebert, Barbara H. Stein, Anna B. Barr, Selden B. Clark Ernest G. Schwiebert Architect and fly-fishing authority     Ernest George Schwiebert of Princeton died Saturday at home. He was 74.    An architect and planner, he is best remembered as one of the world’s foremost authorities on fly-fishing.    His two-volume "Trout" is considered a…

  • Talk reveals vast school segregation in North

    Historian puts New Jersey among top five states with the most segregated schools By: David Campbell    New Jersey is among the five states in the nation with the most segregated public schools, 50 years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, University of Pennsylvania historian Thomas Sugrue said in a lecture Wednesday at…

  • Wawa relocation plan should help traffic flow, experts say

    Montgomery board begins hearing on proposal opposed by Rocky Hill officials By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — The proposed relocation of Wawa from the corner of routes 518 and 206 to a site 550 feet east on Route 518 should improve traffic safety around the intersection, both township and Wawa traffic experts agreed during a Planning…

  • Cable TV choice could be reality

    Verizon files request with Hightstown. By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — Borough residents and businesses could soon have something most folks don’t – a choice when it comes to cable television providers.    Verizon announced Wednesday that it has filed requests to supply digital video service through its fiber-optic network to five New Jersey towns including Hightstown.…

  • Early storm gives kids unexpected day off

    Students in Monroe and Jamesburg enjoy a snow day Chinenye Okparanta    Students in Monroe and Jamesburg found different ways to fill the day of Dec. 9 after learning that school was closed because of snow.    Brian Diaz, a seventh-grader at Immaculate Conception found at 6:30 a.m. that schools in the district were closed.    Brian said…

  • Princeton Packet Boys’ Runner of the Year

    South’s Ennis ended career on top By: Justin Feil    Joe Ennis came into high school as one of the premier runners in Mercer County.    He will leave West Windsor-Plainsboro South having solidified himself and a program at the top.    In his senior year with the Pirate boys’ team, Ennis accomplished plenty even if he would…