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  • Township to test sewers

    Those in the western portion of East Windsor with heart or lung conditions are advised to stay away on May 17. By: David Pescatore    EAST WINDSOR — The East Windsor Municipal Utilities Authority will be conducting smoke testing of gravity sewers in the western portion of the township on Saturday, May 17.    Residents with heart…

  • Viking softballers conquer new worlds

    By: Rich Fisher    The Cranbury School softball team had never beaten Allentown in its first two years of existence, nor had it ever won three games in a season.    The Vikings accomplished both on Monday, taking a 4-1 victory over the Redbirds to raise their record to 3-2.    "They were so excited," coach Leigh Zink…

  • D&R Greenway earns recognition for management

       Delaware & Raritan Greenway has received a four-star or highest rating for excellence in fiscal management from Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest independent evaluator of charities, the Greenway announced this week.    Charity Navigator evaluates the financial health of more than 2,370 of the country’s largest charities. Using public information supplied to the Internal Revenue Service,…

  • Falcon golfers don’t ask questions as they just keep on winning

    By: Redd E. Patrick    Maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s experience, maybe it’s both.    Whatever the reason, the young Monroe High School golf team is not going to stop to analyze things. The Falcons are just going to keep on playing.    A year ago, the Falcons captured the Blue Division of the Greater Middlesex Conference…

  • Smalltown Survivors

    A tale of life, love and cultural revival in an old mill town. By: Hank Kalet TimeOFF/Hank Kalet Gerry Appel is the driving force behind the success of the Brook Arts Center in Bound Brook..    This is a story about Bound Brook, a theater called the Brook and its production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning…

  • Head of Harvard black studies coming to Institute

    Henry Louis Gates to take year’s sabbatical. By: Jeff Milgram    Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard, will join the Institute for Advanced Study this fall as a visiting professor. He will continue his post at Harvard, but will join the Institute during a sabbatical.    His one-year appointment, first…

  • Chief’s son sentenced to jail

    Anthony J. Gaylord Jr. may be parolled in six months. By: David Campbell    Anthony J. Gaylord Jr., the son of Princeton Township’s chief of police, was sentenced to three years in prison at a probation hearing Thursday, said Casey DeBlasio, spokeswoman for the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.    Mr. Gaylord was arrested April 26 in New…

  • OBITUARIES, May 9, 2003

    Dr. Edward A. Dowey Jr., Edna M. Bohn, George Rospopa, Washington R. Johnson Sr., Anne C. Ridner. Dr. Edward A. Dowey Jr. Seminary professor     Dr. Edward A. Dowey Jr. of Princeton, professor of Christian doctrine emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary and an eminent scholar and historian of the Reformed theological tradition, died Monday at…

  • Seback for Crosstown 62

    Bids rejected as contract nears end; no stoppage seen. By: David Campbell    The Princeton Township Committee voted Monday night to reject two Trenton firms’ bids to run senior-transportation service Crosstown 62 after the current contract ends next month.    Now Princeton officials have less than a month to go out to bid again with revised specifications…