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  • Girl Scout’s Gold Award project aids special-needs kids

    Six-week program assists 14 students By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — Montgomery High School junior Julia Hadinger has taken a Girl Scout project to another level.    For her Gold Award — the highest recognition a senior Girl Scout can earn — Julia has started "Fun Fall Field and Game Days," a six-week program for special-needs children…

  • Downtown merchants voice concerns over garbage

    Disagreement over whether a special improvement district is best way of solving problem By: Marjorie Censer    Several dozen Princeton Borough merchants, council members and residents agreed Monday that garbage disposal in the downtown is a significant problem — but disagreed on whether a special improvement district was the best way to solve the problem.    The…

  • Oceanographer warns students about carbon-dioxide dangers

    NOAA expert reports on computer modeling projects at Plainsboro facility By: Emily Craighead    The day after tomorrow will not bring catastrophic climate change, oceanographer Anand Gnanadesikan assured Grovers Mill Middle School eighth-graders during a presentation Tuesday.    What the next 100 years will hold, however, no one knows for sure, he cautioned.    "If all the ice…

  • BREAKING NEWS: Cantu wins in Plainsboro

    Democrat re-elected to 11th term on township committee    Plainsboro Mayor Peter Cantu, a Democrat, won re-election to the Township Committee on Tuesday over his Republican opponent, Bill Zeltman, by a margin of better than 2-to-1.    Mayor Cantu has served on Plainsboro’s governing body for 30 years — 24 of them as mayor.    The results, not…

  • Stockton election results

    Uncontested Borough Council race By: Linda Seida Incumbent Democrat Neal Esposito received 194 votes for Stockton Borough Council and incumbent Republican Constance Bassett received 147. Both ran unopposed.

  • Three teams move on in girls’ XC

    MHS joins South, PHS By: Justin Feil    In one of the fastest years in New Jersey high school history, improvement was vital to having any chance of advancing beyond the girls’ sectional cross country championships Saturday.    To their credit, three Packet-area teams — Montgomery, Princeton, and West Windsor-Plainsboro South — extended their season by one…

  • Trotman likely to take oath

    Borough councilwoman ‘highly recommended’ to be mayor By: Marjorie Censer    Princeton Borough Councilwoman Mildred Trotman will likely take the oath of office as mayor at Wednesday’s council meeting.    Ms. Trotman was nominated Friday — along with Councilman David Goldfarb and Princeton University student Mark Salzman — by the 20-person Democratic Municipal Committee for the post,…

  • Hospital move gets $5 million infusion

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announces grant By: David Campbell    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded $5 million in support of the planned relocation of University Medical Center at Princeton, hospital corporate parent Princeton HealthCare System announced Monday.    "We are very grateful for the generosity and timeliness of this important grant," said PHCS President and…

  • Hearing on Bunn Drive housing project delayed until January

    By: Rachel Silverman    An application to build 98 age-restricted housing units in Princeton Township will not come before the Zoning Board of Adjustment this week as originally planned.    The applicant, Regal Homes, is seeking to build on a 14.1-acre site on Bunn Drive. The plan will now come before the board on Jan. 25.    The…