Category: archives

  • Princeton Borough GOP seeks council candidates

       The Princeton Borough Republican Committee is seeking borough residents who would like to run for the Borough Council.    Interested persons should call Pat Strazza, chairwoman, by April 7 at (609) 924-6558.

  • HHS bomb scares becoming routine

    Hightstown High School has been forced to evacuate students from the school five times in the last seven weeks. By: David Pescatore    HIGHTSTOWN — Notice of a bomb set to detonate forced students from Hightstown High School at 1 p.m. March 18, the fifth such evacuation in seven weeks.    Students were left outside the school…

  • Monroe High wrestling team enjoyed season like no other

    By: Ken Weingartner    When Sal Profaci took over as coach of the Monroe High wrestling team, he worried his athletes might not be able to handle his program.    Now, after four seasons, he knows there is no reason for concern.    The Falcons enjoyed one of their best seasons in recent memory in 2003-04. Although their…

  • March 26, 4 p.m.: Dispatches

    The scourge of outsourcing. By: Hank Kalet    Read this week’s Dispatches on plant closings and outsourcing. Here is Robert Reich on the same issue.

  • Coach, family deal with loss

    MTHS wrestling coach and his family hope to educate people about child cancer. By: Ken Weingartner    As a successful scholastic and collegiate wrestler, Sal Profaci knew what it was like to face tough opponents and come out victorious.    In college, at Central Connecticut State, Mr. Profaci won three conference wrestling championships and made three trips…

  • Old Soul

    Peter Cincotti will bring his song stylings and keyboard wizardry to Princeton April 2-3 for three performances at McCarter Theatre. By: Susan Van Dongen Twenty-year-old crooner Peter Cincotti inaugurates the Berlind Theatre Cabaret at McCarter Theatre in Princeton April 2-3.    These kids today — they think they can do anything. Like taking music written long…

  • Registration open for Arts Council summer camp

       With spring in the air, the Arts Council of Princeton is beginning to take registrations for its summer camps. The Arts Council offers individual, weeklong camps for ages 4 to 12 in the visual and dramatic arts with whimsical themes to suit every child’s interests. Innovative, engaging, and unique, camps will begin in mid-June and…

  • Princeton Township budget pared some more

    From an approximately 12-cent increase, draft budget now proposes a 4.5-cent hike. By: David Campbell    Princeton Township officials continued to pare back spending in their draft 2004 municipal budget, bringing down to 4.5 cents a property-tax increase that once stood in the ballpark of 12 cents when this year’s budgeting began.    And the numbers are…

  • Woodland students learn from history

    Students’ passions spur several Holocaust projects. By: Joseph Harvie    MONROE — Students at Woodland School want to share what they’ve learned.    The sixth grade reading classes, taught by Patricia Clark and Delores Olma, have been working for over six weeks on two plays based on stories they read, one that deals with Jews fleeing to…