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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
