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  • Marquis is Red Raiders’ unselfish leader

    Pennington School guard scores 1,000th career point By: Jim Green    Any good point guard would have done the same thing.    With six minutes left in the second quarter of The Pennington School’s girls basketball game against Solebury on Friday, Red Raiders senior Maggie Marquis drove to the basket, passed up an open lay-up and fed…

  • Character building

    Habitat project gives students new perspective. By: Chris Karmiol    In Accomack County, Virginia, unless you raise chickens, pluck chickens or process chickens you don’t have a job. That was the impression that Hightstown High School teacher Scott Kercher walked away with when he brought a group of students to that economically depressed area to help…

  • Louisville award goes to Nobel Prize winner Kahneman

    By: Jeff Milgram    This is proving to be quite a year for Princeton University psychology Professor Daniel Kahneman.    In October, Dr. Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. And now he has earned the 2003 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. His former colleague and friend, the late psychology professor Amos Tversky,…

  • HHS swim teams strong in numbers, talent

    Sudol optimistic about 2002-03 season By: John E. Powers        Todd Sudol, the Hillsborough High School swimming coach, arrived at the team’s first practice last month and received a pleasant surprise — more swimmers, a lot more.    "Our boys team doubled in size, we went from 15 to 30," Sudol said. "And the girls —…

  • Church mission trip exceeds expectations

    Beyond the political rhetoric and propaganda that paints the island of Cuba with an unfavorable brush, there are the people just trying to get by. For Hightstown resident Margie Voight, coming face to face with those people was an eye-opener. By: Scott Morgan    In a good way.    Four weeks ago, Ms. Voight, along with 26…

  • Lawrence hoping for steady improvement

    Ice hockey By: Jim Green    It’s one of the oldest cliches in the book. But what else is a coach supposed to preach when he’s trying to build an ice hockey program in the Colonial Valley Conference?    "We’re taking it one game at a time," Lawrence High School coach Andy Borowsky said. "We do everything…

  • Council moves ahead on garage after getting guaranteed price

    Opponents present alternate plan By: Jennifer Potash    Nassau HKT Associates LLC, the developer for the downtown Princeton Borough garage, delivered the guaranteed maximum price for the garage Tuesday — and the price is $270,000 less than an estimate released last month.    And while opponents presented an alternate design on Tuesday, Princeton Borough officials continued to…

  • Professor: Balance of power at stake in war with Iraq

    With democracy will come pressure on Baghdad’s neighbors to liberalize, Michael Doran said. By: Jeff Milgram    If America can bring democracy to Iraq by toppling Saddam Hussein, it will put pressure on Baghdad’s neighbors to liberalize, Princeton University Near East Studies scholar Michael Doran said Wednesday.    And the war could cost anywhere from $50 billion…

  • DISPATCHES

    Random thoughts on the year in music By: Hank Kalet    I get depressed listening to the radio sometimes, too much formulaic nonsense poisoning the airwaves, polluting the mind.    This past year has been rife with it: Nelly, J. Lo., Creed, Mariah Carey, Puddle of Mudd — I can only say, "enough, already." Enough of plaintive…