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  • New senior center opens doors, opportunities

    New East Windsor Township Senior Center scheduled to open Sunday, Sept. 21. By: David Pescatore    EAST WINDSOR — After four years of waiting, township senior citizens will have a new place to congregate when the doors are opened at the East Windsor Township Senior Center on Sunday at 2 p.m.    At nearly 11,000 square feet,…

  • Plenty of action, but not a glut

    As retirees head for Stonebridge, Princeton housing is a bull market. By: David Campbell    Realtors in Princeton say the market here is witnessing a boom as several hundred area retirees put their houses up for sale to move into the Stonebridge continuing-care retirement community in Montgomery Township this winter.    "We’ve had quite a fistful," said…

  • Letter: Land swap no option

    To the editor:     I would like to make something very clear to the voters of Monroe Township about the Dec. 9 school referendum.    Thompson Park is encumbered with Green Acres contractual and regulatory restrictions. Statutory restrictions prohibit Middlesex County from disposing or diverting parkland without prior approval of the commissioner of the DEP and…

  • Triumphs and Tragedies

    A. Scott Berg’s biography about screen queen Katharine Hepburn recalls the glory days of Hollywood. By: Matt Smith A. Scott Berg will read and sign copies of Kate Remembered, his memoir about Katharine Hepburn, at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in West Windsor Sept. 22.    As a precocious teen-ager growing up in 1960s California, author A.…

  • Candidates Forum, Sept. 19

    CANDIDATES FORUM, Sept. 19 By: Peggy Karcher Democratic candidate, Princeton Borough Council    In a year when there have been so many issues facing Princeton Borough Council, it is easy to ignore one of its major accomplishments.    This last year, Borough Council considered enacting an underage drinking ordinance that would have made it illegal in Princeton…

  • Letters to the Herald

    For the Sept. 19 issue. Celebrating ignorance with John Bull symbol     It always amazes me on how we cloud the real history of why we formed a separate incorporated community from East Windsor for all the right reasons and why we don’t dissolve the corporation after 150 years for all the wrong reasons.    We…

  • Council accused of illegal meeting

    Hightstown Borough Council member accuses fellow council members of violating the Open Public Meetings Act. By: Sarah Winkelman    HIGHTSTOWN — A member of Borough Council is accusing his fellow council members of violating the Open Public Meetings Act, also known as the Sunshine Law, by discussing possible redevelopment of the borough during a closed-door meeting.…

  • Storm winds, rain pound local region

    Effects of Hurricane Isabel keep police and emergency crews busy. By: Rob Heyman     Wind and rain from Hurricane Isabel as it made landfall in North Carolina yesterday may not have been as severe in New Jersey, but they were strong enough to keep police and road crews busy handling power outages and other problems…

  • Borough providing Milltown with 911

    Jamesburg dispatchers lend a hand to nearby town. By: Al Wicklund JAMESBURG — Jamesburg Police Department dispatchers have been covering Milltown’s 911 emergency telephone calls for more than a month now and things have gone well, according to the police chiefs in both communities.    Under the terms of a three-year contract, Milltown will pay Jamesburg…