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  • Princeton Public Library offers citizenship classes

       Princeton Public Library will host a series of free citizenship classes to be offered this month and October by the Latin American Task Force and the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund.    Registration for the eight-session class will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, when the first of the 90-minute classes will take place.    Subsequent…

  • HiTOPS aims to take on child obesity

    Program would focus on parents By: Rachel Silverman    According to the New Jersey Childhood Weight Status Report, 38 percent of sixth-graders in the state were classified as overweight or obese in the 2003-2004 school year.    The picture looks worse for minority students, based on potential parental influence. Some 66 percent of black and Hispanic women…

  • PU going back to winning ways

    Ford, Tigers field hockey open Saturday By: Justin Feil    There are adjectives to describe last year’s Princeton University field hockey season.    Most of them are unprintable.    The Tigers started slowly with losses in their first two games and five of their first six. They won four straight toward the close of the season to pull…

  • Frist filibuster at Princeton University wins a top ranking

    Mother Jones rates school tops in campus activism By: Marjorie Censer    Princeton University has been the subject of quite a few rankings these days — U.S. News & World Report tied it with Harvard University as the best national university, while The Washington Monthly College Guide ranked it 44th using a methodology that evaluated how…

  • Taxi drivers seek higher fares in West Windsor

    Gas prices cited as one of the key reasons By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council may soon consider a rate hike for taxis in the township.    Two local taxi drivers spoke before the council Monday, urging council members to raise rates.    "With gas prices the way they are, it was kind of…

  • Borough Council race shaping up as low-key affair

    Independent Joshua Leinsdorf challenging longtime Democratic incumbents By: Marjorie Censer    As election campaign season kicks into gear, Princeton Borough Council veterans will be challenged by newcomer Joshua Leinsdorf, an independent who will be in the Republican column on the ballot.    Mr. Leinsdorf, a member of the Princeton Regional Board of Education, did not participate in…

  • Family flees hurricane

    Cranbury family caught in the middle of hurricane chaos. By: Josh Appelbaum    Saturday started off like many often do these days. A family was seeing their daughter off at a Southern college.    But by Sunday, instead of a new student getting to know her surroundings, and a family getting acquainted with the neighbors of their…

  • LCA boys’ soccer has a title among its goals

    By: Sean Moylan    The biggest problem facing the Life Center Academy boys’ varsity soccer team coming into this season was finding a replacement for superstar goalie Mike Kurlander, who graduated last spring.    And yet, if senior Ulysses Wallace plays as well in games as he has in practices, goalie may be a strength for LCA…

  • LETTERS: Remembering Sid’s devotion

    To the editor:     A few days ago, I finally conquered a run I had yet to defeat. Right from the start I pushed real hard, trying to persuade myself that it was no more than a psychological struggle.    Still, as the final stretch came upon me, my body was convinced otherwise. I was short…