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  • Voters get to pick fire commissioners

    Residents asked for approval of budgets, the purchase of a new fire engine and to elect commissioners. By: Leon Tovey    Voters will be faced with contested fire commission elections in two of Monroe’s three fire districts and in Jamesburg, where two candidates are vying to fill an unexpired term, in the Feb. 19 fire elections.…

  • Accident sparks blaze, closes road

    Crash causes brush fire. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — A South Brunswick man was charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving and driving with a suspended license following an accident on Perrineville Road last week, police said.    Police said Bryon Keith, 41, of Route 1 was found unconscious in his 1996 Saab at 12:56 a.m.…

  • WW-P eyes 5% rise in budget as enrollment begins to taper off

    Details of multi-million-dollar spending plan still being worked out. By: Jill Matthews    The West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District faces more moderate enrollment growth than in past years, but a 5 percent budget increase is expected as the district — like many others — grapples with salary and double-digit benefit increases.    Though it "will not be…

  • Plainsboro hires new community development director

    Ernest Freeman has big-city experience. By: Jill Matthews    PLAINSBORO — The township has hired Ernest Freeman of Norfolk, Va., as its new director of community development, four months after its former director, Michael LaPlace, left the municipality.    The Township Committee, after a closed-session interview with Mr. Freeman, appointed him to the position during a special…

  • Robotics team gets boost from B-M Squibb

    Donation will help fund the HHS robotics team’s participation in the 14th annual For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) competition. By: Michael Ross    HIGHTSTOWN — Ingenuity and invention will unite a pharmaceutical giant with local high school students in a competition to engineer a game-winning robot.    For the third consecutive year, Bristol-Myers…

  • Fitness center finds new home in Princeton

    Curves to take over office building on Bunn Drive. By: Rachel Silverman    Curves, a fitness club with a "No Mirrors, No Makeup, No Men" motto, will test its muscle in Princeton Township this spring, opening in an existing office building at 256 Bunn Drive.    In a meeting Wednesday night, the Princeton Township Zoning Board of…

  • Raziano regains health, speed

    Sprinter helps Knights snap skid, eye counties By: Justin Feil    Jason Raziano wished he could have made the Pirate Invitational and the West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ meet against Hopewell Valley.    "I had a 103- or 104-degree fever all weekend," said Raziano, a WW-P North sophomore. "I was upset I had to miss the Pirate and…

  • Mancini deserves a hand for successful comeback

    By: Ken Weingartner    Some people boast about being able to beat someone with one hand tied behind their back.    Anthony Mancini doesn’t have to make that claim. For the first eight matches of the wrestling season, that is, essentially, what he has done.    Mancini, a senior, missed the opening of the season after severely tearing…

  • New contract for dispatchers

    Police, borough work on deal. By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — The Borough Council unanimously approved a four-year contract Wednesday with the union representing the borough’s emergency dispatchers.    The contract is the first for the dispatchers, who were recognized as an independent unit for the first time in the spring of 2003. It is retroactive to…