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  • AROUND CRANBURY: Scouts working to help Katrina victims

    AROUND CRANBURY By Lorraine Sedor Moms in Touch organizes an open house for Sept. 12.    Deirdre Bichsel will hold an open house coffee on Monday, Sept. 12, at 9:30 a.m., at her home at 33 Station Road for the group Moms in Touch.    Moms in Touch meets on a regular basis to offer prayers for…

  • Couples doing their part to assist Katrina victims

    Area residents participate in local relief efforts collecting money and supplies for Katrina victims. By: Jessica Bowker    Local residents — some with heartfelt connections — are busy with collection efforts for the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the New Orleans area last week.    Susan and Dean Bottino of South Main Street in Hightstown…

  • EDITORIAL: Children lead in effort to aid storm victims

    EDITORIAL Local residents should follow the example set by two young girls.    As always, it seems the youngest among us are pointing the way.    Best friends Valentina Pannullo, a sixth-grader, and Caitlin James, a fifth-grader, have taken it upon themselves to raise a little money in an effort to alleviate the suffering of the thousands…

  • Community comes to aid of hurricane’s victims

    Residents contribute to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. By: Leon Tovey    Residents inundated with images of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region last week wasted no time in getting behind relief efforts.    And in at least two cases, they even started their own.    After hearing their parents talking about the devastation…

  • Exhibit to profile the absence of ink

    Family Framers celebrates third anniversary. By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — Family Framers will celebrate its third anniversary with an exhibition of two nationally known area artists’ work.    Woodblock prints by Ingrid Davis and paintings and pastels by Susan Winter will be on display from now until Oct. 31.    The exhibition, which will kick off with…

  • Township gears up for Cranbury Day festivities

    Cranbury Day will feature information session. By: Josh Appelbaum    Township staff and commissions are hoping to spread the word at Cranbury Day about issues that affect residents.    Acting Township Administrator Tom Witt said members of the Township Committee and other groups will be on hand to answer questions from the public Saturday. He said the…

  • ‘Grizzly Man’

    Filmmaker Werner Herzog finds another obsessed, artistic loner to profile in documentary maker Timothy Treadwell, who was killed by the bears he sought to protect. By Elise Nakhnikian Grizzly Man is the story of Timothy Treadwell, who got startlingly close to a group of grizzly bears during 13 summers he spent in the Alaskan wilderness.…

  • Wong aiming high in scholastic finale

    WW-P North senior has eye on tennis states By: Justin Feil    Jackie Wong began playing first singles for the West Windsor-Plainsboro North girls’ tennis team as a freshman.    She has no higher to go with the Knights, but her aims are for the top as she begins her senior year in that familiar No. 1…

  • Thanks to grant, fire company awaits gear upgrade

    Federal grant allows East Windsor Fire Co. No. 1 to upgrade breathing air-packs.    EAST WINDSOR — Within six months, members of Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1 should have newer technology to help them and fire victims, courtesy of a $31,500 federal grant.    The money will be used to upgrade the company’s 42 self-contained breathing air-packs.…