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  • Martin Luther King Jr. essay winners honored

    Princeton University to hold ceremony Monday. By: Jeff Milgram    It is time for every American to take a stand against racism and hatred, Ariana Vera, an eighth-grade student at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, wrote in her first-place winning essay in Princeton University’s Martin Luther King Day essay contest.    "It is our…

  • PU stadium to host medical center’s next June Fete

    Soaking rain, mud and rutted fields will be a thing of the past under structure’s covered concourse. By: David Campbell    University Medical Center at Princeton Auxiliary plans a new venue for its upcoming 51st annual June Fete: the Princeton University football stadium.    Traditionally, the auxiliary’s daylong summer fund-raising event has been held at the university’s…

  • It’s time we confronted hypocrisy

    Let’s attack hypocrisy in the media and government before it does real harm. By: Arnold Bornstein    We have obviously become so numbed by our politicians that we are too rarely surprised or outraged by them. Hypocrisy, however, pervades so much more than the political arena, often in areas that are unexpected, unknown or undetected.    It’s…

  • Lions plan to save Updike potato barn

    Cranbury Lion’s Club will save historic potato barn and use it for storage. By: Matthew Kirdahy    The Cranbury Lions Club will save the historic potato barn on the Updike property and use it for storage, the club’s president said Wednesday.    The barn is one of three owned by Sharbell Development Corp. located on the Updike…

  • PU donates historical books on Princeton to library

    Duplicate copies to become part of Princeton Collection in new library building. By: Jeff Milgram    Princeton University has given a little bit of history to the Princeton Public Library.    Over the winter holidays, the university’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library donated 45 books about Princeton — the school and the town. The books are duplicate…

  • Letters to the Editor, Jan. 16

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Jan. 16 By: Arts Council must respect history To the editor:     There was a community in Princeton that comprised seven streets that were perpendicular to Witherspoon and John streets. Between Jackson (now Paul Robeson Place) and Green streets a building was constructed for the sole purpose of providing a meeting…

  • HHS girls’ basketball goes OT for its first win

    By: Neil Hay    It took six games – and double overtime, to boot – but the Hightstown girls’ basketball team has won its first game of the season.    The Rams outlasted host Ewing Tuesday, 57-44. In a matchup of two struggling programs, the Rams outscored the Blue Devils 13-0 in the second extra session to…

  • When is a farm stand not a farm stand?

    THE STATE WE’RE IN by Michele S. Byers: Farms stands should not be sophisticated retail stores. By: Michele S. Byers    Among the things that give New Jersey its name as the Garden State are the countless rustic farm stands that dot our rural highways, especially during the harvest seasons.    Some of these farm stands have…

  • Union says dispatchers, clerks treated unfairly

    East Windsor radio officers and records clerks enter their fifth year of employment without a contract between their union and the township. By: Lauren Burgoon    EAST WINDSOR — For several township employees, 2004 began like the last four years — without a contract between their union and the township.    Radio officers and records clerks, who…