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  • K. Hovnanian’s Hidden Hills earns community of the year title

    Morris County community honored with Silver award by National Association of Home Builders    K. Hovnanian’s Hidden Hills, a community of 95 estate homes in Washington Township, Morris County, has won several Silver awards from the National Association of Home Builders.    The awards recognize that the community is among the best in the nation and place…

  • Council president leaving — for now

    Council President Mike Vanderbeck will leave his post next week, but he won’t rule out a return to politics. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — Although Mike Vanderbeck is leaving life in politics Jan. 1, he will continue to serve the borough. He’ll just be serving it dessert.    After three years on the Borough Council (two…

  • Collecting winter clothes for neighbors in need

    Winter clothing drive benefits local residents By: Rebecca Tokarz    The Residence at Forsgate is doing its part to clothe the less fortunate this winter.    The assisted living facility has launched a winter clothing drive to benefit HomeFront, an organization that helps homeless families in Mercer County.    The drive, which seeks to collect warm winter clothing…

  • DEP awards grant

    The township last week received a pair of grants from the state Department of Environmental Protection to preserve open space near One Mile Road. By: Scott Morgan    At last week’s meeting, the East Windsor Township Council approved an agreement with the Green Acres division of the DEP that awards the township $1 million through two…

  • Kao, Knights have shining record

    Basketball team is off to quick start By: Justin Feil    The gym floor at West Windsor-Plainsboro High North is just three years old, but it maintains the glow of a newly-shined court. But don’t credit the outstanding maintenance staff.    Credit instead Cynthia Kao, the WW-PN girls’ basketball team guard, who’s been shining courts around the…

  • Choosing the mayor

    Democratic majority controls the selection By: Rebecca Tokarz    Township Committee members say they are undecided about who among them will be selected to succeed Mayor Michael Mayes in 2003.    The Township Committee intends to discuss and select a leader for the next year at its Jan. 6 reorganization meeting. At the meeting, the newly configured…

  • Firefighters extinguish borough chimney blaze

    By: Jennifer Potash    A quiet Christmas night fire turned to near disaster for a Mercer Street family.    After Charles Ufford lit a fire in his fireplace, flames penetrated the fireplace and ignited nearby walls and a portion of the floor above.    The Princeton Borough Police Department received the emergency call at 8:33 p.m., said Capt.…

  • Plainsboro eagerly awaiting nature center’s completion

    Supposed to be completed in August, contractor problems forced a delay By: Gwen Runkle    PLAINSBORO — Enter the township’s new Nature and Education Center in the Plainsboro Preserve off Scotts Corner Road today and you just might get put to work hanging drywall.    That’s because construction of the 6,500-square-foot center, which will be run by…

  • DISPATCHES: an editorial

    The law of unintended consequences By: Hank Kalet    Saddam Hussein is a dangerous dictator who cannot be trusted.    But he is no more dangerous than he has been at any time during the last dozen years — and probably less dangerous than he was at the end of the Gulf War.    That’s what makes the…