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  • Creative Energy

    CAPS! charges ahead after the September flood. By: Amy Brummer TIMEOFF/AMY BRUMMER CAPS! director Cynthia Groya poses with one of her black-and-white drawings, on view at the Yardley, Pa., arts center’s Faculty Art Exhibit and Jazz Jam Nov. 12.    September was a rough month for Cynthia Groya. Her oldest child went off to college, her…

  • South girls win Mercer XC title

    Pirate trio has new role in repeat By: Justin Feil    HAMILTON — Michelle Barbarasch, Lisa Miller and Allison Warner celebrated a reunion of sorts in winning the Mercer County Championship for the second straight year Friday.    The trio established the West Windsor-Plainsboro South girls’ cross country team as the 2004 Mercer County Championship favorite three…

  • Irish unlucky for North field hockey

    ND ousts Knights from state tournament By: Justin Feil    Simply put, the West Windsor-Plainsboro North field hockey would have preferred a different draw in the North 2, Group III state tournament.    It wasn’t that the Knights, as the sixth seed, had to play the No. 3 seed, it was that the No. 3 seed was…

  • McGreevey hasn’t earned parting respect

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Nov. 9 By: Packet Editorial    Back in August, when Gov. James E. McGreevey declared himself a "gay American" and announced he would leave office in November, we were among a decided minority of newspapers in this state that did not urge the governor to resign immediately.    Had he done so, instead of waiting…

  • A Village Cursed

    Both a brassy tourist trap and a quaint New England town, Salem, Mass., offers glimpses of its dark past and an unmistakable aura of mystery. By: David Goodwin PHOTO: DAVID GOODWIN Old Burying Point Cemetery in Salem, Mass., a town known for its 1692 witch trials.    As immortalized by the writings of native son Nathaniel…

  • Another bias crime reported

    In third recent incident, a 20-year-old Hispanic resident of Princeton Township says he was threatened with a knife. By: David Campbell    A 20-year-old Princeton Township resident was charged Thursday with bias intimidation of a Hispanic man and making terroristic threats after he allegedly threatened the victim with a knife.    It was the third such bias-related…

  • Door opens for PU goalie to start

    Gaudiel helps Tiger women split pair By: Justin Feil    Defensemen and forwards who aren’t on the first shift still know they will get their turn in a hockey game. Back-up goaltenders, they don’t frequently get those chances.    In her first two seasons, Roxanne Gaudiel was the back-up goaltender for the Princeton University women’s ice hockey…

  • Cougar girls pull tourney upset

    MHS rallies to beat Millburn By: Bob Nuse    WEST ORANGE — Despite having dominated most of the first 65 minutes of Saturday’s state tournament game against Millburn, the Montgomery High girls’ soccer team still found itself down, 1-0.    It’s a position the Cougars have been in before.    "The only legitimate chance they had the whole…

  • Going south for Italian gusto

    "The Flavors of Southern Italy" really hits the spot By: Faith Bahadurian    "The Flavors of Southern Italy" really hits the spot. Not only are the recipes appealing, the introduction is a good read, as author Erica De Mane describes her family’s attempts to obscure their Italian heritage in an effort to fit in to their…