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  • School budget passes – barely

    JUST IN Voters approve budget by 4-vote margin By:     Manville voters approved the proposed $14.9 million 2005-2006 school budget by a razor-thin 4 vote margin, Tuesday.     With 10 percent of Manville’s registered voters casting ballots, the budget passed by a vote of 238-234.     School board candidates incumbents Dorothy Bradley, Lisa Galasso, George…

  • Stall chips in for MHS golf

    Junior has been consistent player By: Bob Nuse    After failing to make the Montgomery High golf team as a freshman, Jason Stall could have gotten discouraged.    Instead, he realized just how much he loved the sport and worked hard to get better.    Now, two years later, Stall is a junior and one of the top…

  • Princeton firm completes playhouse

    PRINCETON — Hillier Architecture has completed construction of the Playroom at the Ronald McDonald House of New Brunswick, one of almost 240 such houses around the world. Hillier participated in eight community services projects in 2004, many of which aided children in the tri-state area.    "Participating in community service projects that use our design strengths…

  • ‘All My Sons’

    Emerge Theatre Company makes its debut with Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. By: Stuart Duncan TIMEOFF/FRANK WOJCIECHOWSKI Meena Jahi (foreground) and Phillip Christian in Emerge Theater Company’s production of All My Sons in New Brunswick.    It’s difficult to believe that All My Sons is almost 60 years old. It was Arthur Miller’s first big success…

  • Living life under watchful eyes

    RCN’s product raises some privacy concerns By: Sherree DeCovny    WEST WINDSOR — Ever wonder what your kids or pets are doing while you’re not home?    Maybe you’ve had that nagging doubt that you forgot to turn off the coffee pot before rushing out the door.    Or perhaps you wish friends or relatives who live far…

  • West Windsor unveils new playground at Community Park

       WEST WINDSOR — A new playground has opened at Community Park on Route 571.    The new playground replaces equipment installed in 1993 that no longer met playground-safety standards. Funds allocated from the West Windsor open-space tax and a matching grant from the "Healthy Kids Grant Initiative" of GameTime Playgrounds Inc. paid for the project.    The…

  • Gorbachev talks policy at Trenton fund-raiser

    Former Soviet president issues warning on U.S. foreign relations. By: Gwen McNamara    TRENTON — Twenty years ago, relations between Russia and the United States were anything but friendly. Cold War tensions, espionage and nuclear arms were at their peak.    But that didn’t stop a delegation of Trenton-area business and political leaders from traveling to Moscow…

  • New trustees appointed to hospital board

    New directors also named.    Princeton HealthCare System announced Monday the appointment of new trustees to its board and new directors to the board of Princeton HealthCare System Foundation.    The new trustees include:    • Charles "Steve" Dawson, chief information officer and chief technology officer for the state of New Jersey. Mr. Dawson has transformed the way the…

  • Foreign-exchange culture shock proves to be a lesson in itself

    Grover Middle School hosts 20 students from France. By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — The phonetic difference between foreign words like the French "poisson" (with a soft "s," meaning fish) and "poison" (with a "z" sound) isn’t always apparent until you offer the latter to a dinner guest who is a French native.    Grover Middle…