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  • Township Web site ready for surfing

    Committee to unveil new Web site on Monday’s meeting. By: Josh Appelbaum    Cranbury will get its own stretch of road on the information superhighway when the township launches its own Web site at Monday’s Township Committee meeting.    Committeewoman Pari Stave has been working with the chairpersons of each township board, professionals and City Connection, the…

  • Peddie remembers Holocaust’s horrors

    Holocaust survivor Frida Herskovits spoke to eighth-grade students at the Upper Freehold Middle School and at The Peddie School. By: Marisa Maldonado    HIGHTSTOWN — Frida Herskovits does not remember how long she walked from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the "death march" — only that it was cold because she had no coat…

  • Councils to review school budget

    Hightstown and East Windsor councils will meet with the Board of Education to review the school budget which was defeated by voters. By: Marisa Maldonado    HIGHTSTOWN — The Hightstown and East Windsor councils will meet Tuesday with the Board of Education to begin reviewing the defeated $66.6 million school budget.    Hightstown Mayor Robert Patten, East…

  • DISPATCHES: Thrill of the grass meets the thrill of math

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet Fantasy baseball league used as a tool to teach math.        Derrek Lee is off to a fast start.    The Cubs first baseman is among the league leaders in batting average, home runs, runs batted in and nearly every other offensive category in baseball.    And while the Cubs are not exactly…

  • Task force to review Route 33

    Township officials looking at future growth along route. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — The future of a proposed, 6,000-seat, independent league baseball stadium at the south end of the township is still up in the air, but township officials are not waiting on the park to start looking at future growth along Route 33.    Mayor…

  • Montgomery Science Olympiad team heads for nationals

    School has won state championships nine years in a row. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — When a charter bus pulls out of the high school parking lot later this month to transport 25 students to the Science Olympiad National Championships, it will boast a boatload of brainpower.    The group "without a doubt" is made of…

  • Princeton Shopping Center festival to focus on fun and child health

       As part of the Princeton Shopping Center’s Spring Festival, Dr. Edward V. Sofo of Princeton Chiropractic Center will sponsor a "Children’s Health Day International" to raise awareness of vital health and safety issues for children.    On Saturday, May 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the shopping center courtyard, free health screenings and information…

  • Jazz club continues to strike agonizing chord with neighbors

    Dispute arises over timely availability of documents. By: Rachel Silverman    Stephen Distler’s jazz-club application, which seeks to build a combination bar, restaurant and performance venue at Route 206 and Birch Avenue, inched along at a Princeton Township Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting Tuesday, in the second of what promises to be several packed, lengthy hearings.…

  • Mozart opera leaves kids full of smiles

    Elementary School stages "The Magic Flute" with help of a few professionals. By: Rachel Silverman    At first, opera and elementary school may seem an unlikely pairing.    After all, most 5- to 10-year-old children would pick a tightly choreographed Britney Spears routine to a resounding Wagnerian aria any day.    But Wednesday afternoon at Riverside Elementary School,…