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  • Circus’ success is a family secret

    Circus comes to South Brunswick this weekend By: Rebecca Tokarz    Vidbel’s Olde Tyme Circus will complete its 19th year of thrilling and entertaining crowds with two shows in South Brunswick this weekend.    Vidbel’s Olde Tyme Circus was created by Al and Joyce Vidbel in 1983. The couple met while working for Ringling Bros. and Barnum…

  • Lynch adjusting to PHS

    Junior finds home with cross country team By: Justin Feil    Adjusting to a new school can be difficult, as Meaghan Lynch has discovered. For the past five years she lived with her family in Paris, so returning to school in America brought some expected changes.    Princeton High, where Lynch is a junior, is much bigger…

  • Monroe’s trick play is perfect enough

    Axelrod’s late score gives football team first win of the season By: Ken Weingartner    Jim Griffin says there is no such thing as the perfect play.    But the Monroe High football team came as close as you can get to it last Friday night in a 14-7 win at Bishop Ahr.    Faced with third-and-11 at…

  • PERC backs Princeton school district on ‘duties’

    District can require elementary school teachers to perform functions outside classroom. By: Jeff Milgram    The state Public Employment Relations Commission, citing student safety, has ruled that the Princeton Regional Board of Education can require elementary school teachers to perform playground, cafeteria and bus duties.    The ruling, issued recently, upholds the school board’s contention that language…

  • National Depression Screening Day offers hope

    HEALTH MATTERS By: Tim Philpot, M.S.    Public health screenings and health fairs provide people with the opportunity to maintain a watchful eye on a variety of personal health issues, ranging from cholesterol levels to blood pressure to skin cancer. To assist area residents in recognizing whether they should seek treatment for one of several mental…

  • Consumers losing with deregulation

    To the editor:     It’s interesting to read in the newspapers that a major player in the electric power game is going to build a power plant in California at a cost of $776 million. It was originally planned to cost $991.2 million. That was in 2001 when there was supposed to be a power…

  • Andiamo

    This personal and personable Lambertville restaurant passionately blends Italian and French cuisine in a cheerful setting. By: Pat Tanner Andiamo Restaurant 13 Kline’s Court Lambertville (609) 397-6767 Food: Good Service: Enthusiastic Cuisine: Primarily updated Italian Ambiance: Pretty, pastel bistro Prices: Moderate Hours: Dinner: Mon.-Tues., Thurs. 5-9 p.m., Fri. 5-10 p.m., Sat. 2-10 p.m., Sun. 2-8…

  • Firestone marshals anti-garage troops

    A front-porch campaign to keep development out of the center of town. By: Jennifer Potash    Vandeventer Avenue resident Jim Firestone emerged this summer as the field general in an unlikely battle — trying to defeat a proposal for a downtown parking garage and related development.    His front porch, festooned with signs and banners, is command…

  • Historian is enjoying a lifetime of history

    John Katerba calls himself a custodian of the past By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — John Katerba sees himself and his fellow historians as custodians of the past with a responsibility to future generations.    Mr. Katerba, 36, a resident of Monroe Township since birth, is expected to be appointed the township historian by Mayor Richard Pucci…