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  • Viking hoop teams ready to jump it up

    By: Rich Fisher    The basketballs have been rolled out and now the Cranbury School teams are ready to roll as the middle school season gets underway today (Friday) with a girl/boy doubleheader at home against Community.    Here’s an early look at the Viking squads BOYS    The Vikes will be looking up at a lot of…

  • Cranbury-Plainsboro LL making positive changes

    By: Rich Fisher    The Cranbury-Plainsboro Little League has been making slow but sure improvements over the years, but lately those improvements have been fast but sure.    "I actually think this is our biggest jump," said league information Bill Persons. "The board really didn’t think of it that way when we were doing it, but I…

  • Building ‘Bridges’

    Chip Mergott will perform at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lawrence Dec. 9, in a concert to benefit the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen. By:Susan Van Dongen    Singer-songwriter Chip Mergott wrote a piece called "Da Vinci Code Blues," but he could have just as easily penned "The Music Biz Blues."    The New Hope, Pa., resident was…

  • Monroe High boys soccer team helped itself as well as others

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    With all the emphasis placed on community service this year for the Monroe Township High School boys’ soccer program, one might assume that performance on the field had to take a back seat. But nothing could be further from the truth. The accomplishments in the sport, especially on the varsity level,…

  • New councilwoman set to cultivate new interests

    A profile of Princeton Borough Council’s newest member By: Marjorie Censer    Now that she’s almost retired and her children are grown, Barbara Trelstad — the newest addition to the Princeton Borough Council — said she is ready to devote her time to the borough.    "It’s good to contribute to your town," Ms. Trelstad said in…

  • A Thanksgiving Day dance

       MONROE —Monroe dancer parades through New York. By: Chinenye Okparanta    MONROE — On Thanksgiving Day, 12-year-old Jessica Sabanos danced down a New York City street dressed in yellow pajamas and her hair in pigtails.    The Applegarth Middle School seventh-grader was one of 466 kids — and the only one from Monroe Township — chosen to…

  • WW police, Lions Club launch holiday toy drive

       WEST WINDSOR — Township police and the West Windsor Lions Club are accepting donations of toys for local families in need.    Anyone wishing to contribute can drop off new and unwrapped gifts at police headquarters in the West Windsor municipal complex at North Post and Clarksville roads.    Donations will be accepted through Dec. 16.    For…

  • Seymour Hersh compares Iraq to Vietnam, criticizes Bush

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist gives talk at Princeton University By: Hilary Parker    Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist responsible for exposing the My Lai massacre to the world, began his talk at Princeton University on Wednesday night with what he called the bad news — detailing the exact number of days remaining in the Bush presidency.…

  • Zosulis is next for PDS hoops

    New coach brings experience By: Bob Nuse    Kyle Zosulis had been out of coaching long enough. So when the boys’ basketball job opened up at Princeton Day school, he saw it as a perfect chance to get back into coaching.    "I got out of it for a little while," said Zosulis, who takes over for…