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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…