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  • West Windsor, Plainsboro to celebrate Arbor Day

       Arbor Day celebrations are set for Saturday and Sunday in West Windsor and Plainsboro, respectively.    West Windsor’s celebration is set to kick-off at 10 a.m. Saturday.    Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh, students from the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, scouting groups, township officials and residents will meet at the corner of Clarksville and Princeton-Hightstown roads for the…

  • April 22, 5:35 p.m.: Alterman on Bush

    Asking the question, "What exactly are the American people thinking?" By: Hank Kalet    I borrow this from Eric Alterman’s always useful blog, "Altercation". He says "given everything the country has learned about the Bush administration’s incompetence and mendacity—both with regard to the 9/11 attacks and this historic debacle of an invasion—that John Kerry is not…

  • EPA’s logic rivals Kafka for surreal proposal

    EDITORIAL:New Jersey may be penalized for pollution allowed by market plan    Last week’s announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency that all 31 New Jersey counties are failing to meet air quality guidelines is reminiscent of a scene from a novel by Franz Kafka.    It reminded us of the Czechoslovakian surrealist because events leading up to…

  • Fire destroys home, displaces couple

    Blaze took house down on Saturday morning By: Eve Collins    MANSFIELD — Deedee McElven said she lost everything in the fire and now doesn’t know if she will have a place to stay at the end of the week.    The blaze destroyed the home she has shared with Robert Coleman, 32, and all their belongings…

  • Army Corps issues Rt. 92 environmental impact statement

    Public hearing on 385-page document slated for May 20. By: Matthew Kirdahy    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers unveiled a Draft Environmental Impact Study to the public Wednesday that could determine whether Route 92 gets built.    The study reviews the environmental impact, traffic alternatives and traffic impacts on the region of Route 92 — a…

  • Jacqueline Arrington

    By:    HILLSBOROUGH — Jacqueline (Johnson) Arrington died Saturday, April 17, at home in Hillsborough.    Born in Baltimore, she grew up in Waxhaw, N.C., and lived in Somerset more than 30 years before moving to Hillsborough.    Mrs. Arrington was employed as a social worker for the Metuchen Board of Education for 24 years and formerly worked…

  • Earth Day, Arbor Day inspire environmental events

    Activities in the area including cleanups and tree plantings begin today. By: Eve Collins and Scott Morgan    Earth Day is rising. Actually, it’s here, but if you want to enjoy it, take part in it, celebrate it, or do something in the spirit of it, you don’t necessarily have to do it all today.    All…

  • Victim says armed man robbed him

    Gemini Drive resident reports theft by masked man By:Roger Alvarado    Township police are continuing to scour the area for a masked robber who held up a man at gunpoint on Gemini Drive late Friday night.    The victim was standing alone along Gemini Drive near Building 381 shortly after 10 p.m. when a man dressed in…

  • School board rejects project bids

    Officials seek new offers for high school plan. By: Lea Kahn    Dissatisfied with bids that exceeded the $18.5 million budgeted for renovations and additions at Lawrence High School, school district officials plan to seek new bids for the project.    When the bids were opened and tallied for the LHS project March 31, the lowest estimates…