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  • West Windsor municipal budget to increase $1.1 million

    Tax rate to rise only slightly. By: David Campbell    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council is contemplating a $29 million municipal budget for 2005 that would carry a tax-rate increase of 3 cents per $100 of assessed valuation.    On Monday night, the council held another of several budget work sessions on the spending plan being…

  • Tiger Lilies going back to nationals

    U-19 girls’ ice hockey team has higher expectations By: Justin Feil    The Princeton Tiger Lilies 19 and under midget girls’ ice hockey team will return to the U.S. Nationals tournament this year, but there are big changes on the team, physically and mentally.    "Going to nationals this year, not that I wasn’t confident last year,…

  • Letters to the Editor, March 25

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, March 25 Parameters suggested for hospital site To the editor:     The Witherspoon Street Corridor Study, facilitated by Princeton Future, has conducted numerous meetings and public working sessions attended by a broad spectrum of the Princeton community. From this process, principles have been outlined to guide the future of a very…

  • West Windsor-Plainsboro candidates to attend forum

       A candidates night for the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education election will be held on Monday, April 11, at Grover Middle School auditorium.    The program is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. The public is welcome to arrive at 7 p.m. for refreshments and to meet the candidates.    The forum is sponsored by the…

  • Pedaling with purpose

    Peddie School English teacher Pat Clements will spend four months traveling across the country by bicycle. By: Marisa Maldonado    HIGHTSTOWN — English teacher Pat Clements has a distinct picture in his mind of how the roads the Goad family took from Oklahoma to California looked like.    After he spends four months bicycling that trail, along…

  • June Fete steals pages from Woodstock

    "The Groovy Fete" designed to attract young and old alike. By: David Campbell    The organizers of this year’s June Fete are invoking the spirit of Woodstock as part of an effort to broaden the fete’s appeal across generations. But they hope the rain won’t douse the event as it did in August 1969 on Max…

  • HHS boys’ track hoping to repeat as Valley champs

    By: Neil Hay     By the second week of the season, the Hightstown High School boys’ track team should know if it will repeat as CVC Valley Division champs.     Last year the Rams (8-2 overall) went 3-0 in the Valley, defeating rivals Princeton, Hamilton and Nottingham to capture the division flag. Right from the…

  • Township spurns borough’s call for police consolidation review

    Study still proceeding on combining dispatching operations. By: Rachel Silverman    The Princeton Township Committee unanimously rebuffed a Princeton Borough request Monday to support the concept of consolidating township and borough police departments, calling it too early to take such a position.    On March 1, the Borough Council voted 4-2 to support "in principle" consolidation of…

  • Of deer, geese, and the balance of nature

    GUEST OPINION, March 25 By: Patrick Sullivan    For the first time in its 108-year history, the New Jersey Audubon Society recently came out in favor of using sharpshooters to kill New Jersey’s excess deer, citing the damage overgrazing causes to forest undergrowth, and as a result, to the bird population.    Reading this, my first reaction…