Category: archives
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Math teacher a finalist for presidential award
Bonnie Gendaszek has worked at John Witherspoon Middle School for the past 11 years. By: Rachel Silverman According to New Jersey Department of Education spokeswoman Kathryn Forsyth, good math teachers are a rare commodity these days. "It’s more difficult for school districts to find math teachers, particularly difficult in urban districts," she said. "Fewer people…
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Princeton 12s continue improvement
Big inning gives unbeaten Washington a scare By: Justin Feil HAMILTON Though it still seeks its first win in the District 12 Little League Tournament, the Princeton 12-year-old all-star baseball team continued to show improvement with each successive outing. After being shut out in the tournament opener by West Windsor, Princeton had Pool B…
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Princeton Packet Boys’ Track and Field Athlete of the Year
Forbes became MHS record-holder By: Justin Feil Montgomery High boys’ track and field coach Jen Riddell noticed early a change in Brad Forbes. "I’ve never seen Brad like this," Riddell said, "with the spark he has this year. He really wanted it." Forbes had always been among the best sprinters and long jumpers on the…
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Pilot program established for restaurants to offer outdoor dining
Bent Spoon will set up two tables on Palmer Square West. By: Marjorie Censer Gabrielle Carbone, co-owner of The Bent Spoon, has seen it far too often. The unlucky person who purchased an ice cream, a cupcake and a drink tries to balance all three on his knees while sitting on the bench outside the…
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Planetarium on horizon in Montgomery schools
Education foundation plans to purchase $15,000 portable Starlab. By: Kara Fitzpatrick MONTGOMERY The Montgomery Township Education Foundation an independent, nonprofit organization created to support school-based programs and projects has a number of undertakings lined up in the near future. The foundation the organization responsible for the creation of the $950,000 Cougar…
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Green energy, a red car, and a trip around the block
High School grad converts dad’s MG to run on ethanol. By: Emily Craighead WEST WINDSOR Ryan Gaylo’s little red roadster is one of the greenest cars around. Over the past year, Ryan, 18, a recent West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South graduate, spent countless hours converting his father’s British sports car, a 1980 MGB, to…
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University helped set the bar for in-house legal departments
A new concept in 1972, it’s now the standard at colleges and universities. By: David Campbell Princeton University founded its office of general counsel in 1972 when William Bowen became president of the university. Harvard had created such an office about six months earlier. They were the first, and within a relatively short time, in-house…
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Simply Scrumptious
Straight from her kitchen, Princeton cook pursues a dream. By: Diane Landis Hackett It’s nine in the morning and Princeton resident Liz Yvon is in her small kitchen cooking beef in garlic tomatoes, a gratin of sun chokes (Jerusalem artichoke) and chocolate mousse. A video tripod stands precariously between the stove and oven. Jim Stocking,…
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C-P 12s baseball off to fast start
Go 2-0 to open pool play By: Rich Fisher The easiest way to climb out of a swimming pool is to get a big initial thrust, in order to gain some early momentum for the rest of the trip to land. The same can be said for the District 12 Little League pool. The best…
