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  • Candidates Forum

    CANDIDATES FORUM, Oct. 15 By: William L. Enslin Democratic candidate, Princeton Township Committee     Our Republican opponents, in a newspaper ad, claimed Princeton Township’s debt escalated 121 percent in the past year. In fact, our debt, authorized and issued, has actually decreased in that period.    During the past year, the township had to authorize bonding,…

  • Judge upholds verdict in deer cull trespass case

    Lawyers for Bill Laznovsky consider an appeal. By: David Campbell    A Superior Court judge on Friday upheld a Princeton Township Municipal Court ruling in March that found a South Brunswick man guilty of trespass on the Sewer Operating Committee property off River Road to scout out a township deer-slaughter facility.    Superior Court Judge Maryann Bielamowicz…

  • Mercer Mall loses Wiz, may gain Costco

    Costco, a warehouse club retailer, is seeking approvals to build a new store at the former Kmart location. By: George Frey    The Wiz, a consumer electronics and music store in the Mercer Mall complex in Lawrence, was dubbed The Wuz by area businesspeople after the store finally closed its doors Sept. 29.    But despite the…

  • STARLAB: education in the round

    Princeton school district’s latest educational tool looks like an inflatable igloo. By: Jeff Milgram    The Princeton Regional School District’s newest educational tool weighs 47 pounds, stands 10 feet high, is 25 feet wide and looks like an inflatable igloo.    It is STARLAB, a portable, inflatable planetarium and about a dozen teachers got their first look…

  • Fishnets Encouraged

    Enter the ‘Time Warp’ of raunchy zaniness in the Pennington Players’ Rocky Horror Show. By: Matt Smith    To the uninitiated, a community theater rehearsal might seem like loosely organized chaos — particularly when it involves an equally chaotic musical that features a flying castle, a transvestite with a chainsaw, and lots and lots of leather.…

  • Judge’s devotion rewarded

    Sophomore has helped Montgomery cross country By: Justin Feil    For most of his life, Brian Judge has been a student. He’s studied the usual history, English, science and mathematics courses. Recently he became a student of a new subject — running.    "Running is life," said the Montgomery High sophomore, who’s been a steady No. 2…

  • Embroiled former officer seeks disability pension

    Says he can no longer work because of injuries he suffered during altercations with prisoners while on duty. By: Gwen Runkle    PLAINSBORO — Former police officer John Eckert Jr., who resigned from the township Police Department in August after facing several internal departmental disciplinary charges, is seeking to retire with a disability pension from the…

  • ‘Defying Gravity’

    The Villagers offer this Jane Anderson play to open their Black Box Series. By: Stuart Duncan    If there were such a thing as a stagewriter’s union, one of the hot items on the agenda might well be the problem of television writers trying to adjust their scripts to the stage. The latest to try is…

  • Letters to the Editor, Oct. 15

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Oct. 15 By: Freeze all spending on local projects To the editor:     I saw a report about the Great Depression that indicated the initial stock market crash as not having been devastating. It was the subsequent slide of investment values over one year and more that brought large-scale financial distress,…