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  • Cougar boys’ state swim run ends

    MHS returners eye future after loss in sectional final By: Justin Feil    BAYONNE — The talk among the Montgomery High boys in the locker room following their 105-65 loss to Holmdel in the North Jersey, Section 2 B final Tuesday was encouraging, except to Cougars Brian Cahill and Andrew Morris.    That’s because much of the…

  • PU students receive high honors on Alumni Day

    Two seniors and four graduate students get academic recognition.    Princeton University recognized the winners of the highest honors it awards to students at Alumni Day ceremonies Saturday.    Seniors Katherine Linder and Steven Porter received the Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, and graduate students Eric Brown, Min Hu, William Ristenpart and Jennifer Waldron were honored as…

  • South girls’ swimmers rule sectional again

    Nieckoski, Pirate seniors win third title in four years By: Justin Feil    NORTH BRUNSWICK — Megan Nieckoski missed just one swim meet this season, West Windsor-Plainsboro High South’s 109-61 win over Lawrence in the girls’ swimming teams’ Colonial Valley Conference matchup last month.    Nieckoski wasn’t about to miss the rematch, this time with the Central…

  • Recycling costs on the rise

    Jamesburg to pay over $20,000 more for recycling program. By: Joseph Harvie    JAMESBURG — The Borough council voted unanimously Wednesday to pay more than $20,000 this year for its recycling program to continue through the Middlesex County Improvement Authority.    The borough is in the final year of its five-year recycling contract with the MCIA and…

  • Baroni backs Cranbury during Tuesday’s talk

    Assemblyman talks school consolidation and state aid at town hall meeting. By: Matthew Kirdahy    Republican Assemblyman Bill Baroni came to town to talk with residents about Cranbury being on the receiving end of some new state funds and possibly a new consolidation policy.    The first time Mr. Baroni came to Cranbury after campaigning door-to-door last…

  • School taxes take big bite in Plainsboro

    Property owners face a 12-percent increase while West Windsor’s hike put a 2 percent. By: Shanay Cadette    Plainsboro taxpayers may have to dig deeper in their pockets next year.    The West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District revealed its $129.8 million budget proposal for 2004-2005 Tuesday, which calls for a 12-percent hike in the school tax rate…

  • Board candidate deadline nears

    Board of Education candidates have until 4 p.m., March 1 to file. By: Al Wicklund    The Monroe Township and Jamesburg boards of education each have three seats up for election this year with filing deadlines for candidates at 4 p.m. Monday.    In Monroe, the board members whose terms expire this year — Carol Haring, Lew…

  • Arthur Gyorgydeak

       Arthur J. Gyorgydeak Jr., 56, of Jamesburg, died Tuesday, Feb. 17, in Hackensack, as the result of a work related accident.    Born in New Brunswick, he lived in Jamesburg for the past 35 years. He was a 37-year member of the International Sheet Metal Workers Union, recently working out of Local 25 in Carlstadt for…

  • Theinert runs well at Easterns

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    Running in a very fast heat, Monroe High School senior Ashley Theinert clocked a 1:00.8 in the open 400 meter race at this year’s Eastern Regional Meet held at the 168th Street Armory in New York City on Tuesday evening. Her time was just one tenth of a second off the…