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  • Prom dress drive March 24 to help needy teens

       The Princeton Wild Oats Natural Marketplace, in conjunction with YWCA Princeton, Princeton MarketFair, WPST (97.5 FM) and Tender Hearts of Hamilton, is hosting a Prom Dress Drive through March 24.    Prom dresses can cost $300 or more. Many teens can’t afford the price but would like to attend their high school prom, so Wild Oats…

  • Letters to the Herald

    For the Feb. 4 issue. Cable contract prompts questions in Twin Rivers To the editor:     The information in an article published in the January 2005 issue of Twin Rivers Today with the heading "New Cable Services for Twin Rivers" appears to be contradictory with past information and I believe that the board should clarify…

  • These Montgomery tykes aren’t too young for a foreign language

    Class opens a window to Spanish for kids 3 to 6. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — In Amparo Spielholz’s class it’s not one, two, three. It’s uno, dos, tres.    And those single digits say a lot about her students.    Ms. Spielholz is a Spanish teacher, but this is not your typical class of high school…

  • Musicians living the hard, but fun, life

    Jamesburg thrash-rockers mudBox enjoy the climb to success. By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — Half-an-hour into the Jamesburg-based, thrash-rock outfit mudBox’s recent interview with The Cranbury Press, the band’s drummer, Matt Goida, suddenly got worried.    "Man, this is going to be the most depressing article ever!" he exclaimed. The four band members had spent much of…

  • Borough pathway work could begin this year

    Hightstown is one step closer to creating a pedestrian path linking the borough’s residential areas, schools, businesses, mass transit, parks, library and other amenities. By: Michael Ross    HIGHTSTOWN — Sixteen years and $500,000 in state grants later, a borough walking path is one step closer to being constructed.    On Jan. 18, Borough Council introduced a…

  • Dieuwetje Eversen

       Dieuwetje ("Deet") Eversen, 81, died Thursday at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Amsterdam West, The Netherlands, She came to America in 1950. She resided in Hopewell prior to moving to Skillman, where she lived for 47 years, and then to Lawrenceville.    Mrs. Eversen enjoyed crocheting, knitting and baking. She attended Bible study…

  • Money marked for new radios

    Borough takes steps to acquire new radios for police and fire departments. By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — The borough is $100,000 closer to being able to buy new radios for its first responders this week, after learning that it would receive emergency communications funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.    Fire Chief Tom Cooper said…

  • EDITORIAL: This gimmick could really take its toll

    EDITORIAL Considering the consequences of the budget gap.    Just when you thought New Jersey was pretty close to running out of gimmicks to plug billion-dollar holes in its perennially precarious state budgets, here comes another whopper.    Remember when then-Gov. Jim Florio "sold" a 4.2-mile stretch of I-95 in Bergen County to the New Jersey Turnpike…

  • ‘Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed’

    Shirley Chisholm’s Jan. 1 death gives this documentary an added sense of timeliness. By: Elise Nakhnikian Shirley Chisholm rallies supporters for her presidential campaign.    Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to serve in Congress and to run for president of the United States, but she’s much more than just a first, as this lively…