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  • Princeton Holiday Fund aims to help needy

    Neighbor helping neighbor effort begun more than 55 years ago    Once again, the Princeton Holiday Fund is reaching out to the Princeton community, continuing a long tradition of "neighbor helping neighbor" that was started more than 55 years ago by Donald Stuart and Dan Coyle.    Even in a town thought to be quite affluent, there…

  • Two fires, one suspicious, investigated at university

    In one incident, a sprinkler head was tampered with, preventing it from operating By: David Campbell    Fires broke out in two dormitories on the Princeton University campus early Sunday morning, one of which is being investigated as an act of arson, university spokeswoman Cass Cliatt said Wednesday.    Students in Lourie-Love and Scully halls were awakened…

  • Confident Naylor gives PHS early boost

    Cranbury resident starts well By: Justin Feil    Cranbury’s Jonathan Naylor began this winter feeling a lot more confident than last year about his ability to contribute to the Princeton High boys’ ice hockey team.    Naylor quickly overcame last year’s pre-season jitters to contribute four goals and five assists in his freshman year for a Little…

  • Local artist is a ‘wrong century’ realist

       MONROE — Artist Salomon Kadoche. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — "I was born in the wrong century," Salomon Kadoche said Nov. 18, gesturing widely at the artistic clutter that fills the basement studio of his Greenbriar at Whittingham home: paintings on canvas and quick charcoal studies on paper piled here and there in the midst…

  • Borough Council shifts housing burden onto builders

    Amendments considered to lessen impact on homeowners By: Marjorie Censer    The Princeton Borough Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance that shifts the affordable-housing obligation created by residential and nonresidential development to builders — but council members said they would look immediately to amending the ordinance to be less onerous for homeowners.    The council voted 5-1…

  • Numbers low but wins are high for MHS

    By: James McKeever    Monroe boys and girls bowling coach George Packard looks at numbers. Not wins and losses. He looks at team scores, total pinfall. Packard’s feeling: Keep your scores consistently competitive, and the wins will fall into place.    With the 2005-06 season barely a week old, Monroe’s scores have been a bit more erratic…

  • WW-P referendum supporters plan forum and tour

    By: Emily Craighead    The Citizens Referendum Team will hold a public forum on the Jan. 24 facilities referendum for the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District.    It will take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South.    In addition to a presentation about the referendum, the forum will include tours through areas of…

  • West Windsor council to mull stormwater ordinances

    By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — Six ordinances to bring the township into compliance with new state stormwater regulations are expected to be introduced at the Jan. 3 Township Council meeting.    The ordinances deal with improper waste disposal, litter control, wildlife feeding, pet waste, illicit connections to storm sewers and yard waste.    The most significant…

  • PU’s Rogers focused on ring

    Sophomore, Tigers host Rutgers on Sunday By: Justin Feil    Ariel Rogers had a pretty spectacular finish to her freshman season with the Princeton University women’s basketball team.    She scored in double figures in five of the Tigers’ final seven Ivy League games, but there wasn’t too much satisfaction in it as Princeton finished 5-9 in…