Category: archives

  • LETTER: Kerry is wrong for America

    To the editor:     John Kerry makes his four months of wartime duty in Vietnam the basis of his presidential campaign. He enlisted in the Navy in 1966 and was discharged from the Navy in 1978 (he usually says 1969). It is shocking that while he was actively protesting the Vietnam War he was still…

  • Where’s the Beef?

    ‘Peaceable Kingdom’ takes its audience on an eye-opening tour of factory farming. By: Susan Van Dongen Harold Brown, a former beef farmer, had life-changing experience at sanctuary for rescued farm animals in Peaceable Kingdom. The film screens at the New Jersey Film Festival Sept. 30.    How about nuts, berries and tree bark for dinner?    That’s…

  • Statisticians declare Chávez election legit.

    Computer science researchers from Princeton University and Johns Hopkins are giving the Aug. 15 referendum in Venezuela to recall President Hugo Chávez a clean bill of health.    Groups opposed to President Chávez charged that statistical anomalies in polling data indicated that election results were fraudulent. However, an independent analysis of the same data by Edward…

  • Union, board closer to agreement.

    After working for more than a year without a contract, the West Windsor-Plainsboro Service Association is a step closer to a contract agreement with the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education. By: Shanay Cadette    The board announced Tuesday that a tentative agreement has been reached.    Agreement details will not be released until the contract is…

  • Web site sells college-admission help.

    The idea for the business was born in a freshman seminar on technology and society, where Mr. Moore and Mr. Ludwig met. By: Jeff Milgram    When Robert J. Moore was a student at Glassboro High School in South Jersey, he knew exactly which college he wanted to attend.    He studied hard and got a very…

  • Can you hear me now? No? Good!

    EDITORIAL    In advertisements by cellular phone companies, we often hear about the importance of connection, networks and always having access to the system.    What if we applied those concepts to something that we could actually touch, feel and be a physical part of — if we applied those concepts to describe our access to open…

  • Nonprofit founded in wake of 9/11 on mission to help more children.

    Heroic Choices, the Princeton Township-based nonprofit organization that offers mentoring for children experiencing family trauma, aims to broaden its reach to help more children from the tri-state area. By: Jennifer Potash Staff Writer    Located at 701 Mount Lucas Road, Heroic Choices originally was named the Todd M. Beamer Foundation in memory of United Airlines Flight…

  • 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…