Category: archives
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Tiny dancers: Best friends in step with Dance Express
LIFESTYLE By: Erica Hammond EAST WINDSOR For the past three summers, a gaggle of girls has gathered in the basement of the Edwards Drive home of Mike and Sandy Alexander. The couple’s daughter, Cora, and her best friend and next-door neighbor, Danielle Murphy, have run weekly dance lessons for girls age 3 to 8…
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Learning to pick the perfect wine
Fiddleheads and Grape Escape make the perfect match. By: Melissa Hayes JAMESBURG When the owners of Fiddleheads Restaurant met the owner of Dayton’s wine school, The Grape Escape, it was a perfect match. "He walked in one day, his friends had been here before and know us, and it was, ‘Hey you’re a BYOB…
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PU football opens with optimism
Tigers look to fill skill position holes By: Justin Feil The Princeton University football team has some big holes to fill after the graduation of last year’s starting backfield and much of its defensive line. It’s the half-full approach that the Tigers are taking as they open preseason practice this week. Princeton, picked to finish…
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Five schools get warning
Monroe and Jamesburg schools are put on federal early warning list. By: Melissa Hayes Three Monroe schools and two Jamesburg schools have been put on the early warning list under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. In Monroe, special education students in the fourth grade at Brookside School, eighth grade at Applegarth School and…
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Suspect in bank heists nabbed
Police capture man wanted for Central Jersey bank robberies. By: Joseph Harvie MONROE Police in Buffalo, N.Y., captured a 22-year-old Columbus, Ohio, man wanted in connection with six bank robberies in Central Jersey, including the June 25 robbery at the Provident Bank on Forsgate Drive. Buffalo police acted on a tip and took Caleb…
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Princeton school board OKs 56 new positions
Some of the hirings are the result of a second question on last year’s ballot By: Rachel Silverman As desks are put back in order and lockers are cleaned out across the Princeton Regional School District, the Board of Education is busy managing its own back-to-school housekeeping. At Tuesday night’s meeting, board members announced the…
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For WW open space tax, 5’s the magic number
In face of revaluation, council votes to drop tax by 2 cents. By: Emily Craighead WEST WINDSOR Five turned out to be the magic number. Only time will tell whether it is, in fact, the right number. At a special meeting Wednesday, the township administration, council, and the Friends of West Windsor Open Space…
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BMW 645Ci: A car with style and substance
You name it, and the 645Ci has it By: Mike Blake In October 1937, BMW introduced an elegant new cabriolet called the 327. It was BMW’s first convertible and was the hot car of its day. Sixty-eight years later, BMW’s 645Ci shows how far we and they have come, with an exciting, stylish car brimming…
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PHASE THREE: Extend summer past Labor Day
PHASE THREE By Arnold Bornstein Don’t say goodbye to the warm days of summer just yet. Labor Day is creeping up on us (only 10 more days to go) and after all these years I’ve finally and definitively gotten over the feeling that the holiday marks the end of summer. Not only is that a…
