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  • Princeton plays Penn to stay in first place

    Tigers football hopes to break another nine-year losing streak By: Justin Feil    Justin Stull has played in his share of big games, but he knows this Saturday’s noon kickoff at Penn has some new implications in the Princeton-Penn rivalry.    "This is probably the biggest just because (it’s) late in the season, both teams have Ivy…

  • Veterans Day events set in Princeton, West Windsor

    Ceremonies to take place Nov. 11 By: Marjorie Censer    Princeton and West Windsor will host local Veterans Day events next week to pay homage to those who have served in war.    The Spirit of Princeton Committee will host a Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11 at the All Wars Monument at Mercer and Nassau streets.    The…

  • Stuart XC wins fourth straight Prep B title

    Levitt caps senior year by helping Tartans By: Justin Feil    For the fourth straight year, the Stuart Country Day cross country team made sure it didn’t come back empty-handed from Blair Academy, site of the Prep B Championships.    Sasha Levitt has been around for all four championships, but this one felt just a little better.…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Bruvik leads Stuart field hockey to MCT title By: Justin Feil    Kelly Bruvik never let up during Stuart Country Day’s regular-season field hockey games, but she admits there’s a different push come tournament time.    "I think over the season, because we were undefeated, we took games seriously," Bruvik said, "but we were waiting for this."…

  • WW neighborhood group sets review of tranist village

    By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — The Princeton Junction Neighborhoods’ Coalition will meet Monday for a presentation about new development around transit stations in New Jersey, and the demographic and economic implications of such projects.    Jan S. Wells, assistant research professor at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, will give her presentation…

  • WW-P South girls win CJ IV soccer opener

    Pirates overwhelm Edison By: Justin Feil    Sitting on the bench for the first 20 minutes, Rachel Trink watched her West Windsor-Plainsboro North girls’ soccer teammates fall behind Middletown South, 1-0, in the Central Jersey Group III opener.    Yet, she wasn’t afraid that it was the end of the eighth-seeded Knights’ season, and she made sure…

  • Gubernatorial, local contests come down to wire

    Polling stations will be open Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. By: Emily Craighead    Polling stations across New Jersey will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday as voters cast ballots to elect a new governor, General Assembly representatives, and municipal and county officials.    In the race for governor, Democrat Sen. Jon…

  • Borough veterans’ events in limbo

    Planning was disrupted by August death of Hank "Spud" Dobenski, longtime Legion post commander and event organizer. By: Leon Tovey    Communities around the country will be sponsoring events in honor of America’s veterans next week, but, for the first time in decades, Jamesburg might not be among them.    Veterans Day is celebrated each year on…

  • Ex-‘greaser’ gives class a feel for the 1960s

    Reading of "The Outsiders" supplemented by the real thing By: Emily Craighead    John Wydra could almost be a character in S.E. Hinton’s "The Outsiders."    Growing up in a working-class family in Buffalo, N.Y., during the 1950s and 1960s, he carried a switchblade in school and showed up at rumbles, which usually ended in shouting matches…