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  • AROUND CRANBURY: Girl Scouts help out troops in Iraq

    AROUND CRANBURY By Lorraine Sedor The Coppotelli family has adopted an Air Force Squadron in Iraq.    Everyone in town can show their support of the Cranbury School Parent Teacher Organization by purchasing items from its back-to-school apparel sale. It currently has crewneck sweatshirts, bucket hats, long sleeve tie-dye t-shirts and girls’ and women’s baseball style…

  • Library expenses, popularity rise

    Library takes hard look at expense side of balance sheet By: Rachel Silverman    As the Princeton Public Library prepares its 2006 budget, the Library Board of Trustees is searching for ways to cover its growing expenses.    "I think the library is conscious its budget is significant," Library Director Leslie Burger said. "We’re trying to be…

  • Falcons keep winning

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    Tuesday’s 2-0 victory over Sayreville was important to the Monroe High School boy’s varsity soccer team for two reasons. First, it boosted the Falcons into first place in the Greater Middlesex Conference’s White Division. Second, it avenged a late season loss in 2004 to the Bombers that denied Monroe a piece…

  • Appuzzo quits council race

    Republican candidate withdraws from upcoming Borough Council election. By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — Borough Republicans will have just one candidate on the ballot in the upcoming Borough Council election.    That’s because Mario Apuzzo, chairman of the borough’s Republican Municipal Committee and a former borough councilman, withdrew from the election Monday.    Mr. Apuzzo’s withdrawal leaves former…

  • Tulane students adapt to life, waiting to return home

    Students displaced by storm placed at PU By: David Campbell    For Tulane University senior Carrie Pauker, this should have been the year she finished up her neuroscience major surrounded by her friends and teachers on the campus that she had called home for the past three years.    But when Hurricane Katrina burst the levees in…

  • New system to relay school information

    School district hires company to provide automated telephone information service to area parents. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — School officials are working to cut township parent-teacher organizations out of what has been one of their traditional roles — one that PTO members probably won’t miss much: relaying information about school closures and important events to…

  • Peddie, HHS football teams suffer losses

    Falcons visit Penn Charter on Saturday; Rams host Lawrence tonight at 7. By: Neil Hay    Pick a reason, any reason: the first game of the 2005 season; good defense by the other side; hot, humid, "horrendous" weather. For all these reasons, and there probably were some others too, the Peddie football team came out on…

  • Police: Emergency coordinator needed

    Full-time civilian emergency-management coordinator requested By: Marjorie Censer    Princeton borough and township police representatives explained their emergency-preparedness plans and expressed a need for a full-time civilian emergency-management coordinator at Wednesday’s Human Services Commission meeting.    Borough Police Chief Anthony Federico, Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi, Township Acting Police Chief Mark Emann and Lt. Robert Buchanan appeared at…

  • For the Sept. 23 issue

    By: Kathryn S. Dennis    HIGHTSTOWN — Kathryn S. Dennis, 90, of Hightstown, died Saturday, Sept. 17, in Princeton Care Center.    Born in Hightstown, she was a lifetime Hightstown resident who had a deep devotion to her community.    She graduated from college and was a librarian for 12 years before devoting herself to the Hightstown Gazette,…