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  • The holidays at Drumthwacket

    The Garden Club of Princeton joins its sister clubs in preparing the mansion for tours By: Pat Summers    Lucky Drumthwacket: What happens there at winter holiday time is the dream of home decorators all over.    Each year the governor’s residence in Princeton attracts garden clubs from all over New Jersey, eager to make it even…

  • Princeton football takes another step forward

    Little Tigers earn sixth win By: Bob Nuse    The Princeton High football program took another step forward this season.    It just wasn’t as big a step as the Little Tigers would have liked.    With Saturday’s season-ending 42-0 win over West Windsor-Plainsboro North, Princeton finished the season with a 6-4 record. The six wins are the…

  • Janice C. McBurney

       Janice C. McBurney , 76, died Saturday at Park Place Nursing Home in South Brunswick after a long illness.    Born in Indianapolis, Ind., and raised in New Brunswick, she married Joseph Olasz, who died in 1978, and moved to New York City. In 1978 she moved to Princeton and opened a ladies boutique, A La…

  • Taxes may be going up in New Hope

    Officials say the increase is due mainly to grant projects and the development of a park on Ferry Street. By: Linda Seida    NEW HOPE — For the first time in four years, municipal taxes will be going up in 2006 if the almost $3.6 million budget proposed by the Borough Council is approved next month.…

  • Column: Nuse Sense

    Finding answers not easy By: Bob Nuse    Why is it at a sporting event, all it takes is one or two obnoxious fans to label a whole crowd as being obnoxious?    The student fans from West Windsor-Plainsboro South and Colts Neck were both into last Saturday’s playoff game and generally enthusiastic and creative. But all…

  • Nov. 21, 4:44 p.m.: The Alito hypocrisy, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ and Bob Woodward

    What ever happened to the grand national conversation we were supposed to have on abortion? By: Hank Kalet    There is an incredible duplicity to the manner in which conservatives are attempting to defend the judicial candidacy of Judge Sam Alito.    Arch-conservatives have been longing for an antiabortion judge who would also be willing to turn…

  • MacKenzie’s club player kills Falcons in GMCT

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    NORTH BRUNSWICK – Take two high school boys’ soccer teams, each with a top-notch striker and a remarkable goalie, add solid supporting casts and a free-flowing style of play, and the result is the kind of game seen at Steve Libro Stadium this past Sunday.    The clash for the Greater Middlesex…

  • EDITORIAL

    Big-money elections repel voters.    With the dust settled on the most expensive — and, not coincidentally, the nastiest — gubernatorial campaign in state history, it is an appropriate time to take stock of the way we pay for our campaigns.    Campaign-finance rules enacted since Watergate have been effective at requiring disclosure of the sources and…

  • Seniors’ send-off twofold

    PU football seeking greater success By: Justin Feil    On Sunday, the day after a disappointing 21-14 loss to Yale all but ended the Princeton University football team’s hopes of an Ivy League title, Tigers head coach Roger Hughes spoke to his JV team.    The Princeton JV is comprised of players who are mostly freshmen and…