Category: archives
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Young HHS boys’ hoop team still has shots to take
The HHS varsity boys basketball team ended its season with an uncharacteristic loss. By: Neil Hay Not every team can win a championship. When the season is over, very few are left standing. For everyone else, thoughts of woulda-shoulda-coulda abound. Like every other squad, making the state tournament was a goal of the Hightstown boys’…
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Ready to ‘Rehr’ back and rebuild HHS baseball
Twenty-three-year-old Ernie Rehr is the new coach for the varsity Rams team. By: Neil Hay Ernie Rehr, whose college baseball career got a lift when he transferred to Gwynedd-Mercy College, now hopes to do the same with the sagging Hightstown baseball program. Rehr, just 23 years old, is the new varsity baseball coach at Hightstown.…
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Princeton Nursing Home’s new facility nears completion
Neighbors’ concerns center on lighting. By: David Campbell The Princeton Nursing Home’s new facility on Bunn Drive is expected to open as early as May, a nursing home official said Thursday. The nursing home will move into the new 64,844-square-foot facility from its existing building on Quarry Street in Princeton Borough, which has been in…
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3M to use sand to filter quarry runoff
A series of six basins focus of session of Hillsborough, Montgomery planning officials. By: Paul Sisolak HILLSBOROUGH In 3M’s effort to keep storm-water runoff from its quarry out of surrounding streams, plans for installing a special bioretention filtration basin on the site have now changed to a sand filter, it was revealed Tuesday at…
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John Bowen
John Story Bowen, 75, of Monroe, died Friday, March 7, at his home in Rossmoor. Mr. Bowen was a lifelong resident of New Jersey. He grew up in Stelton and attended high school in Highland Park. He served in the Army from 1944 to 1946 in Japan, then returned home to resume his education, graduating…
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Garage suit spurs battle over ‘blight’
Court hearing slated for Wednesday. By: Jennifer Potash Princeton Borough acted within the law when designating the two municipal parking lots as areas in need of redevelopment, according to the borough’s attorney. Princeton Borough Attorney Michael J. Herbert made the assertions in a brief filed with the Mercer County Court on Tuesday. The lawsuit by…
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GOP assemblyman urges malpractice insurance reform
A physician’s prescription outlined before local group. By: Jennifer Potash Assemblyman Eric Munoz (R-Summit) urged the state Senate to adopt malpractice insurance reform lest the more vulnerable and sick citizenry suffer. Dr. Munoz addressed a breakfast gathering of the Republican Association of Princeton on Tuesday at the Nassau Club. The first and hardest hit will…
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Tracing the creative impulse of uncommon genius
BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman March is the Month of the Gifted Child, acknowledged in New Jersey with the annual conference for educators, parents and kids hosted by the New Jersey Association for Gifted Children (NJAGC). This two-day celebration of the woes and wonderfuls of giftedness is important to all participants, as giftedness is not…
