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  • Course helps parents talk to their teens

    WW-P School District parents devise six-week workshop. By: Gwen Runkle    A message to parents having trouble talking with teen-agers: Don’t worry, help is on the way.    The Parent Leadership Corp., a program run by parents for parents in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, is offering a six-week workshop series starting Feb. 19 to help…

  • MS boys hoop team is rebuilding

    By: Redd E. Patrick    Pete LoPresti has gained the reputation as a solid basketball man in his 20 years as head coach for the Monroe High School boys varsity program, which covers two different stints.    With four starters graduated from the best team in school history a year ago (17-6), including about 80 percent of…

  • Twin Rivers residents reject Wally for board

    Al Wally, an outspoken critic of the board of directors was soundly defeated in his election bid. By: Mark Moffa    Controversial Twin Rivers board of directors candidate Al Wally was defeated overwhelmingly last week, as residents of the planned-unit community re-elected the current president and selected two other candidates instead of the outspoken Mr. Wally.…

  • Sadness, stress: ‘Tis the season for managing holiday blues

    HEALTH MATTERS By: Jeanne Cantrell, Ph.D.    If you experience feelings of sadness or loneliness that last from a few days to several weeks and which occur most often in December or immediately after the holiday season, then you may have a case of the holiday blues.    Ten percent of the population suffers from the holiday…

  • Counting down to Christmas

    Advent calendar comes close to home By: Gwen Runkle    Like many families during the holiday season, the Stokes have always enjoyed counting down the days left until Christmas with an Advent calendar.    This year, instead of using the familiar cardboard calendar with small pop-out doors revealing special prayers or chocolate treats, Dale Stokes — the…

  • District gets budget help

    Aid to cover teacher costs until end of school year. By: Al Wicklund    JAMESBURG — The Jamesburg School District is getting some help with its fiscal problems, Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein said Thursday.    Ms. Greenstein said the school, district, which has had to lay off teachers because of a budgetary shortfall, will receive between $25,000 and…

  • Teacher joins international science project

    Heading for South America as an "American Teacher in the Field" By: Jeff Milgram    Students don’t just conjugate verbs and decline nouns in Mark Eastburn’s fifth-grade Spanish class at Johnson Park Elementary School.    They also learn about weather, with a little bit of Latin American geography thrown in.    And so, Mr. Eastburn, a second-year teacher,…

  • Falcon girls basketball team has old-new look

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    Changes are a normal part of high school sports, but there’s a twist for the Monroe Township High School girls’ basketball team this year: the roster of players had remained the same, but the opposing teams are all different, and there’s a new head coach.    Monroe, which finished 8-8 in the…

  • Guest Opinion

    Coping with the threat of future terrorism By: John Monahan    The goal of terrorists is not only to injure those directly hurt by their acts. Terrorists want a contagion of distress to cripple millions of others — rendering us emotionally reactive, physically ill and unable to cope with the uncertainty of where, when and how…