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  • Committee revamps grant list

       Three properties have been added to the township’s Planning Incentive Grant application for Green Acres funding. By:Sarah Winkelman    Three properties have been added to the township’s Planning Incentive Grant application for Green Acres funding.    The grant money is from a state program that addresses growing recreational and conservation needs throughout New Jersey. Townships can submit…

  • Scholarship opens wounds from Sino-Japanese War

    Princeton graduate’s effort to honor Japanese classmate upsets Korean and Chinese students. By: Jeff Milgram    In 1934, a young Japanese student enrolled at Princeton University.    By all accounts, the student, Fumitaka Konoe, was more serious about making friends than he was about studying.    But he was a very special student. His full name was Prince…

  • Apartment tenants claim utility bills are flawed

    Submetering system at Plainsboro complexes target of complaints. By: Shanay Cadette    PLAINSBORO — Michael Hawalka owes some $300 in gas and water utility bills — and he refuses to pay them.    He’s joined by other residents who live in Fox Run, Deer Creek and other apartment complexes in Plainsboro who will not pay their water…

  • PHS boys’ lacrosse continues improvement

    Little Tigers waiting for big win By: Justin Feil    Tyler Moni was well aware of what being a member of the Princeton High boys’ lacrosse team has meant in recent seasons. Though just a freshman, Moni wanted to help the Little Tigers continue that success any way possible in his first year.    "There’s always pressure,"…

  • LIFESTYLE: Aspiring Emerils

    Junior chefs learn to make tasty foods and plenty of messes By: Matthew Kirdahy    There are two basic rules to being a junior chef.    Rule one: Wash your hands.    Rule two: Clean as you go.    A class of 5-year-old junior chefs and I tried our best to cook by the rules but still made a…

  • Mike’s Tavern could be converted to a jazz mecca

    Restaurant and club proposed for site on Route 206 in Princeton Township. By: David Campbell    A Princeton Township resident is planning to give the site of Mike’s Tavern, the small bar and packaged goods store at Route 206 and Birch Avenue, new life as a jazz restaurant and club.    Modeled after popular jazz clubs such…

  • Judge holds off on Nyce assets decision

    Neil Shuster said he would announce his finding at a yet-to-be-scheduled hearing. By John Tredrea    State Superior Court Judge Neil Shuster made no decision Thursday afternoon on whether to lift a freeze on the financial assets of accused murderer Jonathan Nyce.    After listening to over an hour’s worth of argument from attorneys involved in the…

  • West Windsor Council divided on how to cut tax hike

    Many angry words in debate over boosting projected revenues. By: Shanay Cadette    WEST WINDSOR — Township Council members Monday pointed fingers, hurled accusations and confronted each other and the administration over the 2004 budget proposal.    Members have discussed for weeks how to trim Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh’s proposed 4-cent municipal tax rate hike to 3 cents,…

  • Board reorganizes

    Cranbury school board swears in two new faces and one incumbent. By: Sarah Winkelman    The school board swore in two new members and welcomed back one incumbent during its reorganization meeting Tuesday.    Adam Hawes, who was re-elected to a second term, and newcomers Julie Hardaker and Joan Weidner, joined the board after being chosen by…