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  • PHS’s construction bids come in millions over budget

    Project expected to be rebid; bids for elementary schools come in on target By: Jeff Milgram    The Princeton Regional Board of Education spent 2½ hours Thursday opening bids for its $81.3 million school renovation and expansion project and found, in an early analysis of the numbers, that the bids for Princeton High School are between…

  • Potocki to lead Cardinals in rebuilding season

    boys basketball By: Jim Green    Pat Tarrant has just about seen it all as coach of the Lawrence High School boys basketball team.    He has experienced the elation of winning the school’s first sectional title and the misery of an 0-22 record during his 13-year tenure at the helm of the Cardinals.    "We’ve gone full-circle,"…

  • Pyramid closes book on its Princeton store

    Owner blames closing of Park & Shop lot for dropoff in business By: Jennifer Potash    It’s the end of a chapter in the history of Pyramid Books. The Witherspoon Street store closed earlier this week.    Jim Clark, owner of the New Jersey-based chain, said closure of the municipally owned Park & Shop lot earlier this…

  • PHS girls notch historic win

    Little Tiger ice hockey earns first-ever victory vs. PDS By: Bob Nuse    Louise Finnell had a pretty good reason for wanting the Princeton High girls’ ice hockey team to win Wednesday at Princeton Day School.    "My sister went here, my mother went here, and my father used to teach here," the Princeton High junior said.…

  • Deep Hopewell Valley expects successful season

    Swimming By: Jim Green    If depth truly is the determining factor when it comes to the success of a high school swimming team, then Hopewell Valley Central should be just fine this season.    There are a combined 53 swimmers on the school’s boys and girls teams this season, making for perhaps the largest squad in…

  • All Singing, All Dancing

    With show tunes by Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, and George and Ira Gershwin, ‘Let Me Sing’ takes off at the George Street Playhouse. By: Susan Van Dongen TimeOFF/Frank Wojciechowski Straight from The Full Monty on Broadway, Danny Gurwin gives it his all in Let Me Sing at the George Street Playhouse.    Right now may…

  • Potocki to lead Cardinals in rebuilding season

    Boys basketball By: Jim Green    Pat Tarrant has just about seen it all as coach of the Lawrence High School boys basketball team.    He has experienced the elation of winning the school’s first sectional title and the misery of an 0-22 record during his 13-year tenure at the helm of the Cardinals.    "We’ve gone full-circle,"…

  • Letters to the Editor, Dec. 13

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Dec. 13 By: Shopping center isn’t frozen in time To the editor:     I would like respond to the critics of my proposal for the Princeton Shopping Center who have called the design "dumb" and even "obscene."    When I read criticism of the plan, I am persuaded that perceptions of reality…

  • Gerity’s big start lifts South ice hockey

    Junior forward helps Pirates top Nottingham By: Justin Feil    Pat Gerity couldn’t exactly tell you what inspired his play against Nottingham on Monday. It wasn’t anything the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South ice hockey player ate. It wasn’t one disturbing event. Nobody kicked his dog, but you wouldn’t have known it from his play.    "I was…