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  • Outback: power at a reasonable price

    The Outback wagon…gives nearly all the advantages and features of an SUV without the size and excess machinery By: Les Jackson The Subaru Outback has been revised with a stiffer body and updated suspension and steering systems, resulting in a smoother and quieter ride.    The first time I drove a Subaru Outback was seven years…

  • School’s latest musical is a real team effort

    Students, staff prepare for March production. By: Josh Appelbaum    Stage actor Kenneth Haigh said that you need three things in the theater — the play, the actors and the audience — and each must give something.    There could be no truer way to describe Cranbury School’s efforts to bring "Into the Woods Jr." to the…

  • Trotman’s service on Borough Council recognized

    By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton Borough Council President Mildred Trotman was recently inducted into the New Jersey State League of Municipalities Elected Officials Hall of Fame.    Mrs. Trotman, a 20-year member of the Borough Council, was installed in a ceremony in Trenton on Jan. 26.    The honor is granted to municipal governing body members who have…

  • ‘The hand of the artist’

    Princeton University Art Museum’s conservator aims to bring ‘light back to life.’ By: Pat Summers    "Stylist to the stars"? Piffle. Saints and angels depend on Norman Muller for their golden halos and complexion clear-ups.    Mr. Muller’s expert services, the result of training and long practice, come with one catch: The effects he creates are usually…

  • OBITUARIES: Barbara Pancza

    Barbara Pancza    Barbara Ely Pancza, 73, died at her residence on Wednesday, Feb. 9.    Born in Highland Park, she lived in East Brunswick before moving to Monroe. Ms. Pancza was a communicant of St. Bartholomew’s R.C. Church in East Brunswick.    Her husband, Albert J. Pancza, died in 1981. She is survived by two sons, Donald…

  • Fox feeling grand after win, milestone

    Montgomery senior nets 1,000th point in narrow victory By: Bob Nuse    More than anything else, Megan Fox felt relieved Wednesday night when she scored her 1,000th career point for the Montgomery High girls’ basketball team.    "I was pretty anxious," said the Cougar senior, who entered the game against McCorristin needing just four points to reach…

  • OBITUARIES: Elizabeth Conover

    Elizabeth Conover    Elizabeth Louise Conover, 61, of Jamesburg, died Friday, Feb. 11, at Kensington Manor in Toms River.    She was known as "Noonie" to family and friends, was a member of New Hope Baptist Church located in Freehold and worked at the Middlesex County Youth Detention Center in North Brunswick prior to becoming disabled.    Her…

  • PDS rally too little, too late for No. 8

    Panthers boys’ ice hockey falls in state final By: Bob Nuse    Chris Barcless was only half joking when he said the eighth title is always the toughest to get, but it goes a long way toward showing just how dominant the Princeton Day School boys’ ice hockey team has been since Barcless arrived eight years…

  • Browsing the bookshelves online

    Cranbury Public Library makes its book list available. By: Josh Appelbaum    Cranbury residents will soon be able to search the Cranbury Public Library in their pajamas.    The library will allow users to search a listing of its entire book catalog and other resources with their home computers after it installs the Web-based M3 Web Gateway…