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  • Montgomery school gets ‘early warning’ notice

    Middle School just misses getting a perfect score under No Child Left Behind legislation. By: Jill Matthews    MONTGOMERY — Montgomery Middle School received an "early warning" designation from the state after just missing federally mandated standards for Adequate Yearly Progress based on preliminary 2004 standardized test scores, the school board was told at its meeting…

  • Letters to the Herald

    For the Oct. 1 issue. Windsor Mill Condominiums still not repaired after fire To the editor:     A fire at Windsor Mill Condominiums occurred five months ago. The residents of the affected units are still not back into their homes!    There are 18 East Windsor families still displaced due to repairs not being made. Why?…

  • Music, dance, games, cars to highlight fair

    Hightstown’s second annual fair will be held downtown on Saturday, Oct. 9, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. By: Michael Ross    HIGHTSTOWN — The borough will host its second annual fair next Saturday with a daylong festival of activities scheduled to include musical performances, dance acts, children’s games, an antique and exotic automobile display and…

  • Sunshine

    "Sunshine," a 3-month-old spayed female kitten, is in need of a loving home and available for adoption from SAVE, 900 Herrontown Road, Princeton. For information about adopting "Sunshine" or another dog or cat, call (609) 921-6122. SAVE: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/NJ143.html

  • DISPATCHES:Campaigns create fractured electorate

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Playing the demographic game may endanger democracy. By:Hank Kalet    Boston Globe writer Jeff Jacoby raised an interesting question this week.    In a "Web exclusive" column, he asked: Who will American Jews vote for on Nov. 2?    He reminded his readers that American Jews have tended to vote Democratic (only 19 percent…

  • Back in the USSR

    Former Reagan advisor Jack Matlock Jr. revisits détente in a new book. By: Susan Van Dongen In ‘Reagan and Gorbachev,’ Jack Matlock gives an eyewitness acount of how the Cold War ended, with humankind declared the winner. Mr. Matlock, who divides his time between Princeton and Booneville, Tenn., will sign copies of the book at…

  • Montgomery vows to fight DOT on Hillsborough bypass

    Current design would bisect Pike Run development. By: Jill Matthews    MONTGOMERY — Despite protests by the township, the state has announced its intention to move forward with its current design for the Route 206 bypass, which cuts through the Pike Run Development in the northeastern section of the township.    But while the state Department of…

  • Teacher’s letter to seniors a first-grade experience

    Compositions written 11 years earlier become gifts to high school grads, thanks to this retired West Windsor-Plainsboro educator. By: Shanay Cadette    WEST WINDSOR — For several years now, Tamara Keys has tacked a group photo of about 20 children on her refrigerator, pulled out a stack of 11-year-old letters to mail and wondered if any…

  • Police charge man in hit-and-run crush

    Drunk driver apprehended after getting into two accidents. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — A hit-and-run driver injured a Jamesburg woman during an accident at the intersection of Matchaponix Road and Spotswood Englishtown Road on Saturday.    Monroe police said that Kenneth Jomo, 41, of Fernhead Avenue in Spotswood rear-ended a car driven by Richard Thomasen, 22,…