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  • Princeton rec hoops begins 15th season

    Players come full circle By: Bob Nuse    As he prepared to oversee another season of the Princeton Recreation Men’s Summer Basketball League, Ben Stentz was reminded of his days volunteering as a youth basketball coach in the Princeton Recreation Boys’ Summer Basketball League.    "That was probably almost 10 years ago and I remember coaching guys…

  • BACK PORCH: 75th anniversary couple give age old lessons on love

    BACK PORCH by Melissa Morgan: Cranbury residents Wayne and Ethel Stahl know the secrets to making a marriage last and staying happy while doing it. By: Melissa Morgan    Love and marriage, love and marriage. It’s an institute you can’t…figure out? Apparently not.    According to a Time magazine article from September 2000, nearly 50 percent of…

  • PU’s Kroshus finishes 16th at nationals

    Junior hoping for big ending in senior year By: Justin Feil    Emily Kroshus writes honestly, and speaks just as honestly.    Kroshus has drawn the ire of members of the Princeton University men’s cross country and track and field teams for critical articles she’s written in The Daily Princetonian.    "I didn’t start out wanting to write…

  • High school building under a cloud

    Board scrambles as weather sets back Montgomery schedule. By: Paul Sisolak    MONTGOMERY — Conceding that the new high school may not open on time next September, the Board of Education is working on a recovery schedule in hopes of pushing the building’s construction back on track.    Although a tour of the school grounds provided to…

  • Budget plan would widen rich-poor gap

    PACKET EDITORIAL, June 17 By: Packet Editorial    The good news out of Trenton is that Gov. James E. McGreevey and the Democrats in the Legislature have come up with a plan to restore funds for health-care programs, special education, the arts and tourism, public colleges and universities and aid to local governments.    The bad news…

  • Princeton Nursing Home moves to new site

    New location on Bunn Drive brings new name: Princeton Care Center. By: David Campbell    The Princeton Nursing Home has a new name and a new location.    On Sunday, nursing-home staffers conducted a well-orchestrated move from their former location on Quarry Street in Princeton Borough into a new facility at 728 Bunn Drive in Princeton Township.…

  • Dayton home hit by pushin robbery

    BREAKING NEWS: Teens bound in basement as robbers make off with stolen goods. By: Sharlee DiMenichi    A pair of Dayton teens were robbed at gunpoint after two men forced their way into their house and bound them with duct tape in the basement of their Davids Court house at about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.    Police said…

  • SPECIAL SUBJECT: Women on the move

    Bohren’s gets more mileage from being a women-owned and operated business. By: Melinda Sherwood    Shortly after taking the wheel at Bohren’s United Van Lines, President Denise Hewitt found a way to steer the 75-year-old moving company towards new business: market it as women-owned and operated.    "There aren’t a lot of women-owned businesses in transportation," said…

  • Senior prank backfires; 11 arrested

    Suspensions and ban on taking part in graduation ceremonies follow damage to school property. By: Gwen McNamara    Eleven seniors at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South are suspended and will not be participating in graduation this week after being arrested for taking part in a senior prank, school officials reported.    The students reportedly took tables, chairs…