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  • Kids get hooked on fun at PBA derby

    Sun shines on Policemen’s Benevolent Association Fishing Derby at Plainsboro Pond. By: Emily Craighead    PLAINSBORO — The sun was shining and the fish were biting for lots of participants Saturday at the Plainsboro Township Policemen’s Benevolent Association Fishing Derby.    Children hurried up to the officials’ tent with silvery, slithering fish dangling from their poles.    Wearing…

  • A grave business

    New trends challenge local funeral homes By: David Campbell    In the hit HBO television series "Six Feet Under," the Fisher family struggles to keep its Los Angeles-based funeral home afloat in a business increasingly dominated by the sinister Kroehner, the mortuary conglomerate gobbling up the independents, where the bottom line takes priority over comfort to…

  • Students say goodbye to old Montgomery High

    Old school to take on new role Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — Today, members of the 34th class will receive their diplomas from Montgomery High School. But there will be no 35th class to graduate from the brick building situated on Burnt Hill Road. Instead, the class of 2006 will be the first to depart as…

  • Fire parade is set to roll Saturday

       The Princeton Fire Department will hold its annual parade and inspection Saturday.    The parade is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. at Chestnut and Nassau streets. It will then proceed down Nassau Street to Monument Drive in front of Borough Hall.    Area residents are invited to find their favorite spot along the route to enjoy…

  • Health conference will focus on needs of black community

    Princeton HealthCare System to host "Soul to Soul" By: Rachel Silverman    According to Susan Taylor, the editorial director of Essence magazine, many blacks in the United States are wary of those in the medical profession.    "Traditionally, African-Americans are untrusting of the medical community," Ms. Taylor said, citing a lineage that dates back to the Tuskegee…

  • Fundamentals, fun result in perfection

    Grover tennis is unbeaten again By: Scott Kraus    If you can’t argue with success, then Scott Berger, head coach of the Grover Middle School tennis team in West Windsor, must be a stranger to arguments.    The team just finished the 2005 tennis season undefeated, the fourth straight undefeated season for Grover, and fifth undefeated season…

  • Landlord faces new charges

    Repeat offender cited for overcrowded house Marjorie Censer    The landlord of the John Street residence at which two tenants were arrested June 2 for reportedly selling counterfeit identification cards now faces four counts of housing-code violations, said William Drake, the borough’s fire safety and building code inspector.    Sanford Zeitler, owner of the six-bedroom single-family home,…

  • Guitar clinic at library

       The Princeton Public Library is going to be far from quiet on Friday, when musician and teacher Ed Hermann will hold a free guitar clinic at the library at 7:30 p.m. as part of the library’s "Unquiet Fridays" series.    Participants are invited to bring their own guitars, acoustic or electric, to the hands-on clinic.    While…

  • Princetonian named to direct Newark Habitat for Humanity

       Hendricks S. Davis of Princeton, a veteran executive and leader of nonprofit organizations, has been named executive director of the Newark operations of Habitat for Humanity.    For the past 11 years Mr. Davis has been executive director of the Princeton-Blairstown Center, an outdoor-adventure experiential-education and youth-development organization in operation for 97 years. Under his guidance…