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  • Downtown dog days

    Summer means many things to local businesses. By: Marisa Maldonado    HIGHTSTOWN — Skyrocketing temperatures that make hoards of residents head for the beach also have a multitude of effects on local businesses.    For Johnnie’s Deli, the hot summer months mean using free time to revise menus before students and teachers go back to school.    But…

  • What college-bound teens should know

    Nearly 50 percent of all college students acknowledged they had difficulty functioning at some point due to strong feelings of depression By: M. Nazrul Islam, M.D. in Collaboration with Gloria N. Beck    During the next few weeks, many high school graduates will prepare to enter their first year of college. As the first day of…

  • Commission to study flooding

    County proposes a Flood Control Commission. By: Melissa Hayes    Freeholder Director David Crabiel hopes a new commission will prevent more flooding in the region.    Mr. Crabiel is proposing to create the South Central Middlesex County Flood Control Commission to study the flooding problem on a regional basis and hire professionals, if necessary, to develop a…

  • PHS students being left behind

    Princeton High School fails to meet standards set by the No Child Left Behind Act. By: Rachel Silverman    Princeton High School is among the 22.7 percent of public and charter schools throughout the state that did not meet all of the 2004-2005 standards set by the No Child Left Behind Act.    According to the state…

  • Blaze destroys woman’s home

    Fire in home on Cherrybrook Lane in East Windsor caused extensive damage, leaving the resident homeless. By: Jessica Bowker    EAST WINDSOR — A fire ripped through the roof of a single-family home at 14 Cherrybrook Lane on Tuesday afternoon, causing extensive damage to the entire building and leaving a woman homeless.    Although the cause of…

  • Karpf battles to bronze at Junior Olympics

    PDS seventh grader continues to master tae kwon do By: Jim Green    In amateur tae kwon do sparring matches, opponents fight for three minutes or until one competitor has accumulated three points. At the tri-state tournament in April, Lawrence resident Brandon Karpf, 12, beat all three of his opponents in less than a minute without…

  • Sod farm’s water application prompts concern

    Montgomery operation raises questions on impact of area wells. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — A Skillman Road sod farm that has filed an application with the state Department of Environmental Protection to pump 8.56 million gallons of water per month from an on-site well has prompted some residents and officials to request a public hearing…

  • Newcomers invited to YWCA Princeton open house

       The Newcomers Club at the YWCA Princeton will kick off its 2005-2006 season on Friday, Sept. 9, at 11:45 a.m. with a luncheon and an introduction to the interest groups which are open to club members. The public is invited.    The purpose of the Newcomers Club is to give persons, new to the area, a…

  • Letters to the Herald

    For the Aug. 19 issue. Another reason to support farming To the editor:     There is another reason for supporting local farming, the topic of Michele S. Byers’ column, "Buying local preserves farmland and farmers," in your Aug. 12 issue.    I do not think that the price of gasoline and all of the products of…