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  • Freshman Gratch helps Hun now and later

    Raider girls’ hoops earn 20th win By: Andrew Cangiano    LAWRENCE — Freshman forward Emily Gratch showed that not only does the Hun School have a solid girls’ basketball squad now, they also have a promising future.    Gratch scored 11 points in the Raiders win over Lawrence High School, despite sitting on the bench for long…

  • Federal grant aids housing

    Grant to be given to Cranbury Housing Associates. By: Josh Appelbaum    A federal block grant will help pay for the construction of 20 units of affordable housing on a 3-acre parcel adjacent to the Four Seasons senior development on Old Trenton Road.    The $29,700 Community Development Block Grant, which will be issued by the federal…

  • Vinny Giacalone to be honored by National Football Foundation

    By:    Cranbury resident Vinny Giacalone of Princeton High will be honored at the 2005 Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete Dinner, which will be held on March 13.    And with good reason.    It takes a special player to be the focal point of one of the biggest…

  • Reaching out with art

    County youth shelter benefits from group. By: Josh Appelbaum    Thanks to the Cranbury Arts Council, at-risk Middlesex County youth are able to dance, create poems, artwork and music, or act for classroom credit, and more importantly, use these expressions as a creative outlet.    For the past six years, the Arts Council has been helping to…

  • OBITUARIES: John Reynolds

    John Reynolds    John Marshall Reynolds, 84, of West Windsor, died Friday, Feb. 4, at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Philadelphia, Mr. Reynolds was formerly employed with the American Cyanamid Company in Princeton and retired as maintenance supervisor for McGraw-Hill in Hightstown. Mr. Reynolds was also a master cabinet maker and an Eagle…

  • Residents’ right to be informed should prevail

    EDITORIAL    As a newspaper devoted solely to covering East Windsor and Hightstown, the Windsor-Hights Herald strives to give the area’s 30,000 residents everything they need to know about the towns in which they live. Such efforts, however, are complicated when officials are not willing to partner with us to provide the public with information.    Recently,…

  • Montgomery selected as model for transfer of development rights

    Township one of six in state to receive $60,000 planning grant. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — The state Department of Community Affairs on Thursday presented the township, along with five other New Jersey municipalities, with a $60,000 planning grant and a pledge of assistance to make a Transfer of Development Rights program a success.    The…

  • Stop & Shop readies for fall opening

    Grand reopening to be held in October. By: Leon Tovey    Increases in the cost of utilities, professional services and ongoing capital projects and new affordable housing obligations could result in a 5.5 percent increase in municipal taxes.    The Township Committee was scheduled to introduce a $9.75 million preliminary budget early Thursday evening after The Cranbury…

  • PRESS FORUM: Should the Monroe animal control officer who faces animal cruelty charges be disciplined by the township?

    PRESS FORUM Join the debate.    The Cranbury Press is hosting a weekly forum that allow readers and users of the World Wide Web to offer their opinions on a variety of issues.    The forum is designed to encourage debate and to offer the community information about the direction residents of Cranbury, Jamesburg and Monroe want…