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  • Council, school board join forces to fight for aid

    By: Al Wicklund     JAMESBURG — The Borough Council has canceled its Feb. 12 meeting and will join members of the Board of Education at a meeting aimed at getting more money for New Jersey school districts.     Mayor Tony LaMantia said Thursday that he hoped other Jamesburg residents would join the council and board…

  • LETTERS: Freedom of religion, not from religion

    Constitution does not prevent religious clubs To the editor:     Perhaps the people who keep writing and talking about separation of church and state related to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Club need to go back to school to study American history. If they look at our founding fathers, the concern was freedom of religion.…

  • Princeton Future offers vision for downtown area

    Next step: A presentation to Planning Board Feb. 6. By: Jennifer Potash    Bringing back a street that was at the heart of Princeton’s black community for over a century and creating a neighborhood containing million-dollar homes and modest apartments are among the diverse visions included in Princeton Future’s master plan for the downtown neighborhoods.    Princeton…

  • Mourning the death of a friend

    Family, community pay tribute to lifelong Jamesburg resident Santo John Intravartolo. By: Jamie Simpson    JAMESBURG — Santo John Intravartolo, 74, was a man who tirelessly served the community of Jamesburg for more than 20 years.    That’s how family members will remember Santo Intravartolo, who died Jan. 17 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., where…

  • LETTERS: Seniors becoming what they most fear

    Rhetoric of fear is wrong. To the editor:     During the course of last week’s meeting on the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, local seniors came forward to say the reason so many of them were present to protest the club was based on fear.    Fear that the mass genocide that Adolph Hitler had accomplished during…

  • Monroe superintendent gets a new deal

    Contract extends school chief’s service through June 2007 and increases his salary. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Superintendent Ralph Ferrie has a new contract and a familiar problem.    The Board of Education gave Dr. Ferrie a contract that will extend his service as Monroe Township schools superintendent through June of 2007 and increase Dr. Ferrie’s…

  • Monroe group eyes new school expansion plan

    Ad hoc committee to propose building a smaller high school. By: Rebecca Tokarz    MONROE — An ad hoc committee is excepted to recommend that the school board consider scaling down plans for a new high school and that it find a centralized location to build it.    The 40-person committee met Tuesday and will make its…

  • Police seek help finding woman’s attacker

    Incident took place at Princeton Borough Wawa. By: Jennifer Potash        Princeton Borough Police detectives are seeking witnesses to a Jan. 11 assault at the Wawa store on University Place.    A 17-year-old girl left the Wawa at 9:55 p.m. after making a purchase and returned to her car parked nearby when an older man shoved…

  • Police slay late-night assailant

    Princeton Township man survives stab wounds from attacker. By: David Campbell    Princeton Township police shot and killed a 24-year-old Teaneck man early Thursday morning after he gained entry to the nearby home of a prominent Princeton family and attacked the homeowner with a kitchen knife.    William Sword Jr., 51, of 1036 The Great Road West…