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Streets to benefit from $70,000 grant to borough
By: Jennifer Potash Princeton Borough received a $70,000 grant on Thursday that will help cover some costs of the $14.8 million downtown redevelopment project at Spring and Tulane streets. The money will offset costs accrued by the borough for environmental studies and remediation at the Tulane Street metered parking lot, which will be redeveloped with…
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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.…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
