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  • Housing relief measure is tabled

    Princeton Borough Council wrestles with new affordable-housing obligation. By: Marjorie Censer    The Princeton Borough Council reviewed the borough’s new affordable-housing growth-share obligation on Tuesday, but tabled a proposed ordinance intended to help the borough cope with that requirement.    Members of the council expressed concern about meeting the roughly 96-unit affordable-housing obligation imposed by new regulations…

  • PU enrolls 24 displaced by storm

    Students will spend fall term on campus; tuition waived. By: David Campbell    Princeton University has temporarily enrolled 24 visiting undergraduates and five visiting graduate students who were displaced from universities hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina, university spokeswoman Cass Cliatt said Tuesday.    The students will spend the fall term enrolled at Princeton, assigned to campus housing…

  • Sister act aids WW-P South soccer

    McLaughlin girls help Pirates offense By: Justin Feil    Wait. Just wait.    It’s what West Windsor-Plainsboro South girls’ soccer coach Chris Miller heard over and over from Kelly McLaughlin and Kristina Shemming. Wait until McLaughlin’s sister, Maura, started high school.    "Her older sister has been tooting Maura’s horn for a long time," Miller said. "She used…

  • Meetings Calendar

    For the week of Sept. 16    A list of the next meeting of several boards, councils and committees from East Windsor, Hightstown, Twin Rivers and the Board of Education follows. Dates and times are subject to change. School district Board of Education    7:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 26, Hightstown High School, 700 Wing, 25 Leshin Lane.…

  • North’s Xu becomes cross country leader

    Junior is top finisher for Knight girls in win By: Justin Feil    Julia Xu enjoyed her freshman track experience at West Windsor-Plainsboro North so much that she decided to go out for the cross country last year.    Without any real expectations, Xu developed into a Top 5 runner for the Knights.    "Going in, I actually…

  • The Villages at Buckingham opens community center

    The Villages at Buckingham is 20 minutes from I-95 and 25 minutes from the Pennsylvania Turnpike    The Villages at Buckingham have recently opened a new private community center featuring many amenities. This complex is complete with an outdoor pool, tot lot, fitness center, playroom, billiards room, full kitchen, wet bar, office, conference room and a…

  • LETTERS: Letter was flight of fancy

    To the editor:     I am responding to a recent letter from Harold Kane that applied some very "interesting" reasoning that links ex-Gov. McGreevey on Fire Island to the Monroe schools to my own tenure as a Monroe Township High School teacher. With an imagination like that, Mr. Kane obviously has a knack for fiction…

  • LETTERS: Dansers being treated unfairly

    To the editor:     I decided to attend a recent Township Committee meeting to compliment the committee on the Township’s new Web site. The Web site is very functional, useful and attractive — something that, as residents, we can all be proud of.    Unfortunately, I can’t say the same about the treatment the committee is…

  • Questions linger over hospital site density

    Neighborhood group presses for independent study of noise, traffic, safety impacts of large development. By: David Campbell    With a public hearing little more than a month away on amendments to the Master Plan that would pave the way for the University Medical Center at Princeton site to be redeveloped, the fundamental question of building density…