Category: archives
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Medley part of RU turnaround
Hun graduate happy with Scarlet Knights football rise By: Bob Nuse When Ishmael Medley signed on to be part of Greg Schiano’s first recruiting class at Rutgers University, he had a dream of some day playing in a packed Rutgers Stadium and beating a big-time football opponent. Considering that Rutgers was coming off a 3-8…
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North boys have high goals
Knight cross country program on rise By: Justin Feil When Mike Page joined the West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ cross country team as a freshman, expectations were high for a good year. But those expectations were fed by the influx of stars developed at the old West Windsor-Plainsboro High School. As a senior, Page and the…
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AROUND CRANBURY: Saturday’s a busy day on Main Street
AROUND CRANBURY: Sept. 11 marks Cranbury Day By:Lorraine Sedor The Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society will host a myriad of activities on Cranbury Day on Saturday, along Main Street and at the Cranbury Museum on Park Place East. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., re-enactors from the Company H 14th Regiment will pitch tents and…
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Man’s death prompts manslaughter charge
East Windsor Township man is charged with manslaughter in connection with fatal stabbing. By: Dana Lynn Flatekval EAST WINDSOR A township man was charged with manslaughter this week, after he allegedly stabbed a man with a kitchen knife last month. Charles P. Nesko, 65, of W Building on Avon Drive was charged Wednesday with…
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Netting butterflies and volunteers.
On Saturday, Aug. 14, the Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Association hosted a combined Butterfly and Volunteer Appreciation Day. Volunteers and guests toured the Buttinger Nature Center, the Kate Gorrie Butterfly House and the grounds of the 825-acre preserve in Pennington. The day’s events included face painting, butterfly crafts, storytelling with Rebecca Kelly, an illustrated talk,…
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PERCEPTIONS: Some details aren’t forgotten three years later
PERCEPTIONS By Steve Feitl: Remebering the events of 9-11. By: Steve Feitl A lot can be forgotten over three years. In going through my PDA this week, I was surprised to see many things in my 2001 calendar that I had forgotten about. Other events I may have remembered, but I was reminded of when…
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Honda changes plan for 130 dealership
East Windsor residents meet to discuss the possibility of a Honda dealership being constructed close to their homes on Route 130. By: Dana Lynn Flatekval EAST WINDSOR An informal meeting held Wednesday by the mayor helped ease the minds of some homeowners worried about a proposed car dealership to be constructed on Route 130…
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Deer contraception program stepped up. Unusually high fertility rate is cited.
White Buffalo, the Connecticut firm overseeing Princeton Township’s deer-management program, recently vaccinated 30 does in a stepped up effort to address an unexpectedly high fertility rate among immunized deer. By: David Campbell Twenty-three female fawns and seven adult does were captured and treated with SpayVac, an experimental one-shot birth-control vaccine, in the study area in…
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Preserving what’s precious. Historical Society’s purchase of Updike Farm is theme of annual gala.
Not so long ago, most of the Princeton area looked like the Updike Farm: verdant fields overseen by a house, a barn and a retinue of smaller structures. By: Christian Kirkpatrick In the fields grew wheat and corn. Cows grazed, as well. The houses were spacious and practical, big enough to shelter a large family…
