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  • Legion team starts year with 2-1 record

    Hightstown Post 148 had four games rained out, but it still managed to play three games, winning twice. By: Kyle Moylan    WEST WINDSOR – Rain on game days and the ensuing wet fields it left behind kept Hightstown Post 148 from playing four times in the first 11 days of the American Legion baseball season.…

  • 25-mph limit sought on section of Alexander Road

    Berrien City residents say pedestrian safety at stake. By: Gwen McNamara    WEST WINDSOR — Concerned about the safety of pedestrians along Alexander Road, residents of the Berrien City neighborhood, near the Princeton Junction train station, are asking the township for action.    They would like the township to reduce the speed limit of the roadway, between…

  • Weidel Princeton to participate in Summer Solstice Celebration

    Realtor’s booth to feature its Valu-Vision display of homes    Weidel Realtors of Princeton will be offering giveaways from its booth during the Arts Council of Princeton’s Summer Solstice Celebration to be held Saturday, from 1 to 5 p.m. on Witherspoon and Nassau streets, Princeton. Rain date will be Sunday.    The event, a one-time only replacement…

  • Post 148 manager never ‘Scheid’ away from game he loves

    Former Astros’ pitcher likes giving back to his community. By: Neil Hay    In 11 years of professional baseball, Rich Scheid has "been there, done that."    Rich Scheid is home now, in Hightstown, and on the baseball field. Still doing what he loves most. Teaching baseball as new manager of American Legion Post 148.    Scheid was…

  • Dispatches: Waving the flag for true patriots

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Defining the meaning of "patriotism". By: Hank Kalet "Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both…

  • William L. Croce

       William L. Croce, 76, died Tuesday, June 16, at his home.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived there until moving to Clearbrook in 1991.    He was a high board operator with the Con-Edison Hudson Avenue power plant in Brooklyn for 38 years, retiring in 1998. He was a member of the Italian American, Bocce, Bridge…

  • Consultant hired to open Montgomery High School on time

    An effort to accelerate a construction program about two months behind schedule. By: Paul Sisolak    MONTGOMERY — The Board of Education hired a management consultant Tuesday to devise a recovery plan for the new township high school, which has fallen behind schedule.    Epic, a general construction company in Piscataway that provides construction management services, will…

  • Opera Festival opens 20th season June 29

       A Fantasy in Algiers, the opening gala for Opera Festival of New Jersey’s 20th anniversary season, will be held on Sunday, June 29, at Princeton University’s Forbes College following the afternoon performance of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri. Metropolitan Opera soprano Sharon Sweet is honorary chair.    Overlooking the Springdale Golf Club, Forbes is a short walk…

  • Falcons anxiously look to the future

    By: Ken Weingartner    The Monroe High baseball team hit just one home run this season — and saw it washed from the statistics when the game ended up being rained out.    That pretty much tells all you need to know about the Falcons’ 2003 campaign.    Monroe, whose starting lineup by the end of the season…