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  • PHS’ Macdonald hopes to emerge as MCT darkhorse

    WW-P South is team favorite in boys’ tennis By: Justin Feil    Graham Macdonald doesn’t put as much time into tennis as most second singles players in Mercer County.    "I play in the summer," said the Princeton High senior. "I play maybe once a week in the fall and winter. Then maybe a week before the…

  • Borough, township to review joint budget

    Only five of 15 departments will see an increase under proposed plan. By: David Campbell    The governing bodies of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, along with municipal department heads, are expected to meet this evening for their annual review of budgeting for shared services.    The total for all agencies jointly funded by the borough and…

  • Veteran holdover Davidson keys PDS nine

    Junior batting leadoff for Panthers By: Bob Nuse    Andrew Davidson remembers when he was a young player on the Princeton Day School baseball team. He would watch the older, more experienced players ahead of him and learn.    Now, as a junior and one of the veteran players for the Panthers, Davidson is the one leading…

  • Non-studying helps student win national word challenge

    West Windsor sixth-grader takes home college scholarship. By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — Sixth-grader Ming-Ming Tran’s favorite literary heroine is cursed (by a well-intentioned fairy) with obedience, but she finds ingenious and unexpected ways to get around obeying orders.    In a way, Ella — of "Ella Enchanted," by Gail Carson Levine —inspired the strategy that…

  • Milestones

    Issue of April 26, 2005 By: Sara Carpenter NONPROFIT    Thomas P. McCool has been appointed the new president and CEO of the Princeton-based not-for-profit Eden Family of Services.    Mr. McCool brings more than 30 years of experience working with and advocating for individuals who have been diagnosed with developmental and emotional disabilities, including autism. Most…

  • Frederick A. Bentley Jr.

       Frederick A. Bentley Jr., 93, of Pennington died April 21 at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England, his father Fred Bentley Sr. immigrated to America in 1920 to work in the Trenton Potteries. He sent for his wife Annie and his children in 1922 and they lived in Trenton for…

  • Prisons are this century’s growth industry

    PACKET EDITORIAL, April 26 By: Packet Editorial    Plastics.    Everybody remembers that one-word piece of whispered wisdom Mr. McGuire (played by Walter Brooke) delivered to the befuddled Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman) in the 1967 hit movie, "The Graduate."    Well, here it is 38 years later, and plastics is no longer the growth industry it…

  • Express runs

    NJ Transit’s new schedule helps shave time off business commutes By: George Spohr    WEST WINDSOR — New Jersey Transit’s new schedules, which took effect Sunday, contained a lot of good news for commuters from Princeton Junction.    Nearly all express trains on the Northeast Corridor line leaving Princeton Junction for New York during the morning rush-hour…

  • Big-shot Tosches helps Pirates top Hun

    South senior scores four in key Bianchi win By: Justin Feil    Since switching to attack when he began high school, Jason Tosches has developed a big shot.    The West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys’ lacrosse team is hoping that more importantly the senior attackman can continue to develop into a big shot in its biggest games.    "One…