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  • Colonia boys knock MHS out of tourney

    Slow start dooms Cougar hoops By: Bob Nuse    COLONIA — Jeff Tagliareni knew his Montgomery High boys’ basketball team was in for quite a test when it faced Colonia in the North Jersey, Section 2 Group III quarterfinals last Thursday night.    But even the second-year Cougar coach couldn’t have expected Colonia to play as well…

  • Princeton school board set to unveil $62.1 million budget

    Described as maintenance-level, taxes on average home in borough would increase 7.6 percent and in township 5.1 percent. By: Jeff Milgram    The Princeton Regional Board of Education is scheduled to introduce a tentative $62.1 million budget for the 2004-2005 school year tonight, 5.6 percent higher than this year’s $58.8 million spending plan.    The tentative budget…

  • MILESTONES

    March 9-11, 2004 HEALTH & MEDICINE    Princeton HealthCare System has announced that Lucille P. Mason has joined the organization as vice president, human resources. She brings 25 years of management and healthcare experience to PHCS.    As a member of PHCS’s senior management team, she will work closely with management to support and respond to the…

  • Campus novelist’s book delves into Ivy League psyche

    A focus on "the pressure of generations and how it relates to success." By: Jessica Stahl    For decades, the ivy-covered walls and towering spires of Princeton University have served as the inspiration for scientific pioneers, intellectual giants and literary geniuses.    Since beginning his freshman year at Princeton, Travis Muir, now a junior, has been secretly…

  • Get up and go

    Plainsboro firm wins top prize for time-saving, cashless technology. By: Gwen McNamara    Tired of waiting for what seems like an eternity in those long lines at the amusement park or stadium?    Well the recent winner of the 6th annual Princeton University Business Plan Contest has a solution that is speeding things up.    Proximities, a Plainsboro-based…

  • Borough Council to vote on new garage rates

    Police chief’s report on crime also set for tonight’s meeting. By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Borough Council will consider an ordinance tonight setting parking rates in the new downtown garage and hear a report on how crime dropped in the municipality last year.    The new 500-space municipal parking garage is slated to open in early…

  • Desire for change spurs Montgomery board challengers

    At least one incumbent says change for change’s sake is hogwash. By: Jill Matthews    MONTGOMERY — With 20 years of collective experience by the two incumbents seeking re-election, almost every challenger in the field for three seats on the Montgomery Board of Education seems to be saying the same thing: It is time for a…

  • MHS hockey reached state quarterfinals

    Cougars set to face No. 1 Ridge By: Bob Nuse    HACKENSACK — Yury Tarnavskyj has always considered himself a defense-first type of coach.    The past two years, Tarnavskyj’s Montgomery High ice hockey team has been following that philosophy to some pretty successful seasons.    This year, the Cougars are putting together the best season in school…

  • Forum addresses Witherspoon Street’s future

    Princeton Future holds session on a community both accessible and separated. By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton Future continued its community dialogues Sunday with a closer look at Witherspoon Street and its neighborhoods and institutions.    About 30 residents from Princeton Borough and Princeton Township gathered to brainstorm about various needs, including housing, transportation, business and employment along…