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  • WW-P middle schools earn A+ for effort

    Committee examines other districts and finds the shining example back home. By: Emily Craighead    The West Windsor-Plainsboro Middle School Study Committee presented its recommendation to the Board of Education on Tuesday: Make the cutting edge even sharper.    During the past eight months, the committee of 14 administrators, teachers, parents and students assessed the district’s middle…

  • Residents raise concerns about work on Babe Ruth ball field

    Residents worry that the demolition of the former Wrights Roses greenhouses will cause damaging effects. By: Josh Appelbaum    Residents have raised concerns that demolition of the former Wrights Roses greenhouses are causing potentially harmful dust to drift toward residential areas and Cranbury School.    Several residents have approached Township Committeeman Thomas Panconi to complain about dust…

  • Princeton professor awarded NEH fellowship

       Sheldon Garon, professor of history and East Asian studies at Princeton University, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for 2005-2006 to support his work on a new book, the university said.    Professor Garon, a historian of modern Japan with comparative interests in European, American and Asian history, has titled the book…

  • State eyes ban on junk food

    The state Senate is considering implementing a ban on junk foods in elementary and middle schools. By: Matt Egan    Students in public schools in New Jersey may no longer have the choice between junk food and healthy food when they slide their quarters into vending machines.    A ban being considered by the state Senate would…

  • Township sewer fees to increase for first time in four years

    Reduction in water use cited for 7.3-percent hike. By: Rachel Silverman    For the first time in four years, Princeton Township Committee on Monday raised the annual sewer charges for residents connected to the sewer system, bringing the yearly fee up 38 cents to $5.58 per 100 cubic feet, an increase of 7.3 percent.    Ironically, the…

  • Timing of WW-P facilities referendum still unclear

    Changing formula for dividing costs between two municipalities under consideration. By: Emily Craighead    Whether voters will see the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District’s proposed $25 million facilities referendum in December, January, or not for another year is still up in the air.    However, Superintendent Robert Loretan said that when that issue does go to a…

  • Students twisting a fairy tale

    Fourth-graders will perform "Nick Tickle, Fairy Tale Detective" at Woodland School Tuesday. By: Audrey Levine    MONROE — Goldilocks walks into the detective’s office and tells him she is being framed.    She did not eat the bears’ porridge and she did not sit on their chairs. The bears did not find her lying down on their…

  • MHS boys’ lacrosse starts slow in states

    Cougars close out Jefferson By: Justin Feil    The Montgomery High boys’ lacrosse team was supposed to cruise by Jefferson in Wednesday’s state Group II opener.    After all, the Cougars had earned the No. 3 seed and were coming off a win over Pingry for the school’s first-ever Somerset County Tournament championship. It took a while,…

  • A day to honor warriors

    The New Jersey Civil War History Association will lead a tribute to soldiers who died in the Civil War. By: Josh Appelbaum    A local living-history group will pay tribute Monday to soldiers from the Cranbury area who fought and died in the Civil War.    The New Jersey Civil War History Association will lead a wreath-laying…