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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…