Category: archives
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North wrerstler is good as ‘Gold’
Sophomore Goldsmith has high hopes for districts By: Bob Nuse George Goldsmith has learned his lessons well as a wrestler. "I’m more experienced now as a wrestler and that has helped me," the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North sophomore said. "I’ve also wrestled some of these guys last year, so I know what to expect. I’m…
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PHS boys dim ‘Stars for another ‘B’ swim title
By: Bob Nuse NORTH BRUNSWICK It didn’t come without a fight, but the Princeton High boys’ swim team captured its third straight Central Jersey B Division championship with a 94-76 win over Nottingham on Monday. The Little Tigers won nine of the meet’s 11 events to improve to 14-0 on the season. With the…
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East Windsor GOP seeking candidates
The township’s Republican Municipal Committee wants people to run for four council seats up this year. By: David Pescatore EAST WINDSOR The Republican Municipal Committee is looking for candidates to run for East Windsor Township Council, although it is likely to be an uphill run. "It is a long road to haul," said Linda…
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Classroom closed because of mold
East Windsor school district testing found one modular classroom with a high level of mold. By: David Pescatore HIGHTSTOWN Air quality tests performed in Hightstown High School’s modular classrooms showed one room to have an unacceptable level of mold spores. Classes that were using Room 122, which held 21 students, were moved to other…
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Decision delayed on Nassau Park expansion
By: Gwen Runkle WEST WINDSOR The township Planning Board has put off making a decision on the third and final phase of development in the Nassau Park shopping center off Route 1 until May 13. "There are so many issues we are wide apart on, including problems with traffic and crime, I didn’t think…
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Still Crazy
Richard Lewis uses his ‘bottomless pit of dysfunction’ to get laughs. The comic performs at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick March 7-8. By: Jim Boyle "I went on stage for psychological reasons," says Richard Lewis. "I wanted to untwist myself and at least be validated that I wasn’t alone." In the throes of middle…
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DISPATCHES: In poetry, a language of dissent
Dispatches by Hank Kalet: Poetry and politics mingle in potential wartimes By: Hank Kalet W.H. Auden once wrote that poetry "makes nothing happen." But in the same poem, "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," Auden also reminds us that the poet through his poems can transform feeling and that through this transformation effect an alteration in…
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‘Green’ schools goal for children’s author
Lynne Cherry wants to save the environment one school at a time. By: Jeff Milgram Children’s book author and illustrator Lynne Cherry wants to save the environment one school at a time. Ms. Cherry, an artist-in-residence at Princeton University’s Princeton Environmental Institute, started with the Dutch Neck Elementary School in West Windsor and the Riverside…
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Team-oriented WW-P North set for CJ III debut
Knight boys open against Wall By: Bob Nuse Doug Caracappa knows the West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ basketball team that will open the state tournament on Tuesday is a different team than the one that opened the season in December. "At the beginning of the year we had some new players and it took us some…
