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  • Su wins first MCT flight for North

    Knights finish fourth behind South, PDS second By: Justin Feil    Four of the five flights at the Mercer County Tournament saw new winners Wednesday.    It was representatives from familiar powers Hun and West Windsor-Plainsboro South that claimed three of those four titles, and Lucy DiPastina of Hun was the only repeat winner at third singles.…

  • Forward, win!

    Falcon football team looks to progress after snapping losing streak By: Ken Weingartner    A step forward.    That’s the direction the Monroe High football team moved with its 14-6 win over Bishop Ahr last week, snapping a five-game skid dating to last season.    "Most of the switches we made paid off," Falcons coach Jim Griffin said.…

  • Morrison emerging from shadow of PU star

    Wide receiver part of plans as Tigers host Columbia to open Ivy season By: Justin Feil    Blair Morrison can identify with Jan Smithers’ Bailey Quarters character from the 1970s show WKRP in Cincinnati. She played second fiddle for every male on the show, and plenty of home viewers, to the buxom Loni Anderson’s Jennifer Marlowe…

  • Letter: DEP questions land swap plan

    To the editor:     I feel compelled to respond to Lisa Weinthal’s question: Says who? Green Acres says who!    First, there was no letter to the Board of Education. Lew Kaufman sent an e-mail to a John Flynn at the D.E.P. requesting information on local land swapped for Green Acres to build a school. Mr.…

  • Press Forum: No Child Left Behind

    Will the federal No Child Left Behind act improve local schools? Will the federal No Child Left Behind act improve local schools?

  • Homeowner mixes the past with the present

    Cranbury sponsors a historic-house tour. By: Matt Kirdahy    During the 1830s, Cranbury blacksmith Francis La Baw was hard at work in his barn on Liberty Street in Cranbury making horseshoes. He lived in the two-story house with his family on the same property.    The road called Liberty Street changed to Park Place in 1911, but…

  • MacQueen in position to help WW-PS football

    Versatile junior, Pirates play at North tonight By: Bob Nuse    As a junior, Grant MacQueen’s run at quarterback lasted about two quarters more than it did when he was a freshman.    "I played quarterback as a freshman for two games," recalled MacQueen, who moved from quarterback to slot back for the West Windsor-Plainsboro South football…

  • That day in Dallas, 40 years later

    Historical Society of Princeton to host panel discussion.    Where were you when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot? The Historical Society of Princeton is hosting a panel discussion that asks where Princeton was on that momentous day. The forum commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.    On…

  • Judge hears suit about Twin Rivers

    Mercer County state Superior Court Judge Neil H. Shuster considers debate about planned communities. By: David Pescatore    TRENTON — The future of planned communities in the state now rests in the hands of a Mercer County state Superior Court judge.    Judge Neil H. Shuster heard arguments Tuesday in the case between the Committee for a…