Category: archives
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Princeton 12s baseball has confidence
Advance to Final Eight with win in pool finale By: Justin Feil LAWRENCE Nick Covello felt comfortably confident that the Princeton 12-year-old all-star team would advance out of pool play despite a loss in the District 12 Little League Tournament. But then Covello is comfortable where others would not be. The Princeton shortstop wears…
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EDITORIAL: Cell-phone law won’t live up to all the hype
EDITORIAL:Presumed intention of law unlikely Like it or not and we can’t say we much like it the statewide ban on the use of hand-held cell phones while driving took effect last week, with the presumed intention of increasing highway safety. We say "presumed" intention because there are no reliable data to support…
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East Windsor garbage tax stays same
Township Council unamimously approves garbage budget which will maintain current tax rate for East Windsor. By: Dana Lynn Flatekval EAST WINDSOR In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the Township Council passed a garbage budget that will maintain the current tax rate. The $1.64 million garbage budget will stabilize the tax rate at 17.5 cents…
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Caregiver guilty of abuse
Monroe woman found guilty of neglect and assault By:Joseph Harvie MONROE A 65-year-old Monroe woman was found guilty of neglect and assault in connection with injuries sustained by a mentally challenged man who was in her care. Naomi Wilburn, 65, of Prospect Plains Road in Monroe was convicted in state Superior Court in New…
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Virtual entrepreneur
21-year-old has own software company By:Sarah Winkelman Not a lot of people can say that at 21 years old, they own their own company but that is just what Scottsdale Court resident Paul Kafasis tells people. Mr. Kafasis and his two partners, Quentin Carnicelli, 21, and Alex Lagutin, 31, founded the Internet software company…
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C-P softball perfect in pool play
Make history with 4-0 run By: Rich Fisher Manager Fred Leske was confident his Cranbury-Plainsboro 12-year-old all-star softball team could do well in District 12 pool play this year, but even Leske could not predict the dominance C-P showed in winning Pool B with a 4-0 record. The locals outscored their opponents 76-6, defeating Lawrence…
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All the (camp) world’s a stage for young Shakespeareans
Fourteen youngsters prepare for Saturday performance of "As You Like It" on outdoor stage. By: David Campbell According to Susan Garrett, a professional actress and instructor with Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival, the Rep’s intensive two-week Summer Theatre Camp helps prepare young people who might someday become professionals themselves. Sitting in on a rehearsal Thursday morning…
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LETTER: A ‘Just War’ or oxymoron?
To the editor: Is there such as thing as a "just" war, and, if so, does our involvement in Iraq qualify? I was thinking about the sadness of lives being lost in Iraq, and of war in general, and was once again hit with a familiar argument. The rhetoric goes like this: "But surely there…
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Unusually high deer birth rate spurs debate on lethal culling
Many explanations for large number of fawns among deer receiving birth-control vaccinations. By: David Campbell Opponents of lethal deer management have been saying for years that killing deer is futile because it only spurs reproduction. And a recent disclosure of an unexpectedly high fertility rate among immunized deer by the Yale-educated wildlife biologist overseeing Princeton…
