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  • Fox fire secures top seed

    Three-point specialist keeps Merrill Lynch unbeaten By: Bob Nuse    Pete Fox doesn’t hide the fact he likes to shoot the basketball.    "My last game in college, I played three minutes and took 12 shots," said Fox, a graduate of St. Francis College in Pennsylvania.    Fox had an up and down college career at St. Francis.…

  • To some, life’s a juggle, and to others, juggling’s a life

    With scarfs flying, youngsters introduced to a new skill By: Kara Fitzpatrick    ROCKY HILL — "Green, purple, blue. Green, purple, blue. Green, purple, blue," chants Joe Fischer, teacher of juggling, magic, balloon sculpture and origami.    The room becomes a composite of giggles and foot stomping as mint, lavender and sky-colored scarves drift through the air.…

  • Red Cross reaches out to flood victims

    Cleanup effort under way By: Melissa Hayes    JAMESBURG — Flowers that had been overrun with water just a day and a half earlier were smushed flat against the ground. Mud covered the lawns, sidewalks and the driveways of the homes on Willow Street.    Washers, dryers, bookshelves, desks, computers and bags of garbage lined the road…

  • Much ado about something

    COUNTERPOINTPrinceton Rep Shakespeare Festival dies on the vine at Pettoranello Gardens, and we’re all the losers. By: Michael Redmond    The show will not go on in Pettoranello Gardens. It seems as though love’s labor has indeed been lost, at least for the summer of 2005.    That was the sorry news Monday when the Princeton Rep…

  • The trivial pursuits of summer

    A SLICE OF WRY by Anna Breslaw    It’s 1:30 a.m. Do you know where your children are?    If they’re anything like me, they’re probably catching the end of Conan O’Brien, embarking on a brief, unsuccessful channel search, calling friends who are just as bored as they are and, after a fruitless and uninspired conversation, promising…

  • Library use is rising as the months go by

    Year shows increase in card-holders, circulation, collection size and door count By: Rachel Silverman    Newly compiled statistics presented to the Princeton Public Library board of trustees Tuesday night reveal that library usage has grown substantially since the new building’s debut last year.    In June 2004, shortly after the $18 million Witherspoon Street building opened, the…

  • Montgomery board approves contracts for technology equipment

    Computer leasing plan considerably scaled back from what was originally proposed. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — At a special meeting Wednesday, the Board of Education approved bids awarding $1.42 million in contracts for equipment to outfit the district in the fall.    The action was accomplished in two measures.    Combining portions of bids from eight vendors,…

  • C-P 10’s give it their all before coming up short

    By: Scott Kraus    Allentown, behind an eight-run outburst in the first two innings, eliminated Cranbury-Plainsboro from the Final Nine of the District 12 10-year-old Little League tournament on Tuesday night, winning by a score of 9-6 at HTRBA Field.    After trailing by eight runs in the third, Cranbury-Plainsboro responded with rallies in the third and…

  • Route 92 EIS nearly ready

    Army Corps eyes a summer release date. By: Joseph Harvie    The final Environmental Impact Statement on Route 92 is expected to be unveiled sometime this summer, according to Army Corps of Engineers officials.    Richard Tomer, chief of the Regulatory Branch of the Army Corps of Engineers, said Tuesday the agency is expected to issue the…