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  • Liquid assets

    Wine is not just for drinking; it’s also a wise investment. By: Gwen McNamara    Wine is in. From the growing number of tasting events and winery tours to advances in home wine storage and studies touting the drink’s health benefits, wine is all the rage.    But it can do more than complement a great meal…

  • Sky champion booters highlighted year

    MANVILLE HIGH YEAR IN SPORTS 2003-04 By: Rudy Brandl    Manville High crowned two Sky Division champions during the 2003-04 school year. Both MHS soccer teams won the division title in the fall, making the rest of the year a tough act to follow for school’s athletic teams.    As it turned out, the boys’ basketball, baseball…

  • Princeton stays alive in District 12 baseball

    Wishnick earns secret win for all-stars By: Bob Nuse    Knowing that his team needed a win to stay alive in the District 12 Little League Tournament for 12-year-olds, Princeton manager Dave Etherton called on a secret weapon — Aaron Wishnick.    "He pitched great," Etherton said of Wishnick, who allowed just two hits in five innings…

  • Hugs all around for champion West Windsor

    Tops C-P to reach Section 3 tournament By: Justin Feil    FLORENCE — There were plenty of hugs from the West Windsor 12-year-old all-star softball team after it won the District 12 Little League championship on Sunday.    Many of them were for the Cranbury-Plainsboro team that fell, 5-2, in the final. The toughest challenge to the…

  • Apartment complex unveiled

    Hillier hosts tour of The Waxwood, to open this fall. By: Jennifer Potash    A renovated historic building in the John-Witherspoon neighborhood was unveiled Thursday, along with plans to keep the building’s community role alive.    The former Witherspoon School, which served as a segregated elementary school for the predominantly black neighborhood until 1948, will soon re-emerge…

  • Healthcare publishing firm adds market research arm

    Intellisphere acquires Healthcare Research Associates. By: Melinda Sherwood    Doctors, like patients, need to do their research, but when it comes to tracking down medical information on the Internet — a new drug therapy or a new technology that could save a patient’s life — they can be as overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information…

  • Deer vaccination plan approved by township

    Committee allocates $27,720 for deer immunizations. By: David Campbell    The Princeton Township Committee on Monday night approved $27,720 for deer immunizations in August to address an unexpectedly high fertility rate among deer in the pilot birth-control study under way in the southeastern corner of the municipality.    Anthony DeNicola, the wildlife biologist whose firm White Buffalo…

  • EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT

    James J. Schiro Zurich Finanical Services TITLE: CEO RESIDENCE: Princeton Borough and Zurich, Switzerland FAMILY: wife Tomasina, daughter Justine, son James Jr. EDUCATION: graduated from St. John’s University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, completed an executive program at Dartmouth College and received an honorary degree in commercial science at St. John’s. THUMBNAIL SKETCH:…

  • Quest for knowledge

    Teacher development program takes science out of the books. By: Jeff Milgram    For the past 32 years, George Luke has taught seventh-grade science at the John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton.    For the past nine years, Brian McGurney has taught special education students at West Windsor-Plainsboro’s Thomas R. Grover Middle School. Starting in September he…