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  • Local birders hope prowl’s a real hoot

       Area birders are flocking to Cranbury for the first Stony Brook-Millstone Association and Cranbury Environmental Commission owl prowl at the Gourgaud Gallery tonight (Friday). By: Josh Appelbaum    Area birders are flocking to Cranbury for the first Stony Brook-Millstone Association and Cranbury Environmental Commission owl prowl at the Gourgaud Gallery tonight (Friday).    Rick Lear, a naturalist…

  • LETTERS: YMCA offers thanks to friends

    To the editor:    The South Brunswick Family YMCA would like to thank the following friends who donated to our "Breakfast with Santa" held on Dec. 19: Wawa of Dayton, Dunkin Donuts of Dayton, Stop & Shop of Dayton and Monmouth Junction, Theo’s, McDonald’s, Whole Foods, Wegman’s Bagel Giant Café, The Bagel Basket, Mr. and Mrs.…

  • Peddie knocks Hun from unbeaten ranks

    Raiders hope to react well to first loss By: Justin Feil    The feeling after the game may have been the same, but there was a much different feeling for The Hun School girls’ basketball team heading into its showdown with Peddie on Tuesday.    "We definitely felt a lot more confident," said Hun head coach Bill…

  • Blue Country Heart

    Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna veteran Jorma Kaukonen performs ‘On Patriots Stage.’ By: Susan Van Dongen "I’m an insatiable seeker of great old music," says fingerpick guitarist and songwriter Jorma Kaukonen, who performs On Patriots Stage at the War Memorial Jan. 20.    As one of his generation’s most brilliant fingerpick guitarists and songwriters, Jorma Kaukonen…

  • POCKETS OF NEED: Open pockets, open hearts

    POCKETS OF NEED: Single mother looking for a place to raise her children. By: Elaine Worden    All she wants is a place for her children to call home. A place that, no matter how old they are, they can always come back and know it’s theirs. It doesn’t have to be anything too fancy, a…

  • DISPATCHES Gov. Codey offers a far-reaching agenda

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: State of the State address focuses on several progressive goals, including a much-needed hike in the state’s minimum wage. By: Hank Kalet    Gov. Richard Codey certainly has an ambitious agenda.    The acting governor, who also serves as state Senate president, already has been a busy man in his nearly two months…

  • Town helps school purchase two lots

    Properties to be used as sidewalk and driveway. By: Joseph Harvie    The Township Council is expected to introduce two ordinances Tuesday that would allow it to help the school district purchase two parcels of land .    One of the parcels will be used to build a driveway from Constable School on Constable Road to Dawson…

  • Communiversity signing up participants

       Communiversity, Princeton’s annual street festival, is seeking applicants for crafters, artists, vendors and performers.    The event will be held from noon to 5 p.m. April 23.    Communiversity, which is organized and run by The Arts Council of Princeton and the students of Princeton University, attracts more than 10,000 people to the area each year to…

  • For her, life will never be the same

    Auto accident ended former East Windsor resident’s cutting-edge career in stem cell research and left her in a wheelchair. By: Michael Ross    EAST WINDSOR — A once promising researcher and former East Windsor resident has found a sliver of solace on a remote peninsula, far from the Middlesex County roadway where her life violently changed…