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  • JAMESBURG BACK TO SCHOOL: Making friends on the first day

       Kindergarteners get the feel for school. By: Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    JAMESBURG — Some chatted excitedly, others had tear-streaked faces, as the class of kindergartners sat at child-sized tables copying the neatly printed letters of their names.    Kindergarten teacher Diana Santowasso told the students they wrote like old pros.    "Are you sure you guys didn’t do…

  • DISPATCHES: Desperation in the new millenium

    DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet: Atonement needed to break free from the world of rage we live in. By: Hank Kalet    The news was incomprehensible.    More than 330 dead in the Russian city of Beslan, more than half of them children, the victims of a terror attack by Chechnyan rebels.    And yet, incomprehensible is the wrong…

  • A family’s struggle with illness and compensation

       Since Larrie Collura was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, mental retardation and autism, life for him and his parents has been a struggle: for his survival, for an understanding of his illness and for recognition from drug companies that may be responsible. By: Josh Appelbaum    JAMESBURG — Every morning, Larry and Linda Collura split the work…

  • MacKenzie is seeking some titles

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    This is a big turnover year for the Monroe High School boys’ varsity soccer team. The Falcons lost 11 seniors to graduation last June, five of them starters. After losing a four-year starting goalie, two all-conference players, and the midfielder who assisted on a third of Monroe’s goals during the 2003…

  • BOYS’ XC

    PREVIEWS Montgomery     Head Coach: Jim Goodfriend, 19th year    Last year: 4-5    Key returning players: Dan Covino (Sr.), Mike Durik (Sr.), Richard Geotz (Sr.), Brian Judge (Sr.), Ryan Pottorf (Sr.), Andrew Sozio (Sr.), Andrew Kuzmich (Jr.), Sean Mihalik (Jr.), Ben Savage (Jr.), Ryan Warner (So.).    Top newcomer: Kevin Schroek (Jr.), Mike Holiako (So.), Sean Hover…

  • Knights support for Stubbs shows

    Football coach receives aid after heart surgery By: Bob Nuse    If Art Stubbs didn’t already know the kind of support he had around West Windsor-Plainsboro North before, he does now.    Back in May, the WW-P North football coach and physical education teacher needed to have a valve replaced in his heart. The surgery was going…

  • Jews prepare for upcoming holidays

       Preparing for the High Holidays By: Sharlee Joy Dimenichi    Approaching the holiest time of the year, Jews are busy with preparations, both practical and spiritual.    "It’s preparing for the new year, preparing for forgiveness for our sins that we did during the year, and repenting," said Evelyn Goldstein, president of Jewish Congregation of Concordia/Monroe Township.…

  • Montgomery to strive for a ‘sense of place’

       MONTGOMERY — The landscape along Route 206 from one end of this sprawling township to the other is diverse — changing from a rural area with farms to residential areas to a commercial area with car dealerships and strip malls. By: Jill Matthews    Now, the township is working to implement a new process that would…

  • Residents stomp on plan to install new sidewalks.

    Among the top requests the Princeton Borough Council receives from borough residents, sidewalk installation in neighborhoods usually heads the list. By: Jennifer Potash    But a dozen borough residents along a portion of Snowden Lane went in the opposite direction Tuesday and implored the council not to support a Princeton Township plan to add sidewalks to…