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  • Tyers, Zullo advance to Region VII quarterfinals

    HHS wrestlers Brandon Tyers and Chris Zullo will return to the Region VII quarterfinals. By: Neil Hay    In years past, the Hightstown High School wrestling season would be over by now.    But this is another year. And this is a different Hightstown wrestling team. Thanks to Brandon Tyers and Chris Zullo, there is still at…

  • Updike tract on agenda

    Preservation chances slim By: Matt Kirdahy    Township Committeewoman Becky Beauregard wants the township to place purchasing the 50-acre Updike property back on the table.    Ms. Beauregard asked Monday that the issue be considered March 17.    But, plans to begin the construction of 16-single-family houses on the site within the next 45 days might make purchasing…

  • Report puts deer cull total at 176

    Forum on Wednesday to explain immunocontraceptive study. By: David Campbell    A total of 176 deer have been killed through Wednesday night under the third year of Princeton Township’s deer-management program, state and township wildlife officials said Thursday.    Five deer were killed Monday, three by the net-and-bolt method and two by sharpshooters, a spokesman for the…

  • Committee ponders uses for Barclay properties

    Mulling continued over farmland preservation By: Matt Kirdahy    The Township Committee has just two weeks to decide if it wants to withdraw its current application and submit a new plan for preservation of the Barclay property as farmland.    If the application is withdrawn, the committee may consider subdividing the property to make the stream corridor…

  • South hockey exits on empty

    Pirates drop game in third shootout By: Justin Feil    Each of the past three seasons ended with an empty sort of feeling for the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South ice hockey team.    Wednesday, the Pirates ended a fourth straight season, but this time they ended on just plain empty.    WW-PS, seeded 27th, fought back from a…

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY: Creating a ‘neighborly’ feeling is Mr. Roger’s legacy

    KIDS AND COMMUNITY by Judy Shepps Battle: Television program improved self esteem and built bridges between home and community. By: Judy Shepps Battle    Thirty-six years ago the theme song "Won’t You Be My Neighbor?" was copyrighted by Fred M. Rogers, and the kids’ show "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood" was born. It presented a curious contrast to…

  • John Webster

       John D. Webster, of Grapevine, Texas, formerly of Jamesburg, died Sunday, Jan. 5.    Mr. Webster was born in Orlean, N.Y., in 1929 and was a Navy veteran who graduated from Grove City College in Pennsylvania. A resident of Jamesburg from 1960 to 1979, he served on the Library Board for 14 years, was a Board…

  • Borough officials seek lower tax hike

    A harder line on employee benefits and higher rates for some parking meters considered. By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton Borough may consider raising some parking meter rates and taking a harder line on municipal employee benefits to allow a lower tax-rate increase. The first draft of the $19.7 million budget suggests a 5- to 8-cent increase…

  • Event at Thousand Villages to aid African schoolgirls

    By: Jennifer Potash    While $10 may seem a paltry sum to support the educational needs of an American child, that amount makes a world of difference to a schoolgirl in the African nation of Mozambique.    Ten Thousand Villages, an arts and crafts store at the Princeton Shopping Center that promotes fair trade and wages, will…