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  • Eagle Scout offers to build split-rail fence on property

    Eagle Scout’s project idea was approved by Town Committee Monday. By: Josh Appelbaum    Boy Scout Gregory Bredariol wants to build a fence around the West property.    The project, part of a service project required to earn the Eagle Scout badge, was approved Monday by the Township Committee.    Gregory, 16, of Troop 52 plans to construct…

  • Students to learn bus safety

    School bus evacuation drill set for Monday. By: Josh Appelbaum    The Cranbury School is making sure its students know how to exit school buses in case of an emergency.    Vice principal Christine Capaci said all 600 students will learn to assist each other in evacuating buses from front and rear emergency doors when they participate…

  • LETTERS: Teachers are professionals

    To the editor:     Cranbury teachers are true professionals and they deserve to be compensated as such.    Our school is integral to the very fabric of our community. It touches the core of every family; highest educational standards, community identification and strong economic base for property values.    Without the finest teachers, the school will not…

  • Publicity campaign ramps up for new downtown garage

    Promotional materials issued; new Web site established. By: Jennifer Potash    It’s not just movie stars and rock bands that need public relations campaigns to promote themselves. Princeton Borough just launched a new effort to spotlight the downtown Spring Street parking garage that opened in April.    The campaign includes a new parking Web site, www.princetonparking.org, as…

  • Man jailed for hit and run

    Jamesburg man gets four years in prison for hit and run on June 10, 2003. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — A Jamesburg man was sentenced to four years in a state prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault for his involvement in a hit-and-run accident that occurred June 10, 2003, according to…

  • DISPATCHES: Unlikely activist takes on war in Iraq

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet: Mother of soldier killed in Iraq speaks out against President Bush and dubious war. By: Hank Kalet    Sue Niederer never expected to find herself on the nightly news.    She never expected to be speaking at Rutgers and elsewhere about her views, never expected to find herself being forcibly removed from a…

  • LETTER: Stubbornness is a bad policy

    To the editor:     George W. Bush keeps criticizing John Kerry for shifting his position on the war in Iraq. Is that worse than stubbornly sticking to the same position, even after the evidence indicates you’re wrong?    President Bush told the American people that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States, possessed weapons…

  • NPDC land deal dies on table

    Montgomery to file lawsuit against state for site cleanup. By: Jill Matthews    MONTGOMERY — After eight years of negotiations over the purchase of the state-owned North Princeton Developmental Center site, the township has stepped away from the negotiating table and announced that it intends to file a federal lawsuit against the state.    In response, the…

  • Borough wants pay-to-play law

    Hightstown Borough is looking to institute a ban on the practice of rewarding political contributors with municipal contracts. By: Michael Ross    HIGHTSTOWN — Borough lawmakers are calling for a measure that will ban political contributions to locally elected officials by companies interested in doing business with the borough.    The measure is in step with an…