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Township to receive new playground equipment
State grant money will help pay for new playground equipment at Etra Lake Park in East Windsor. By: Chris Karmiol EAST WINDSOR All work and no play makes anyone dull. In the parks of East Windsor kids get plenty of opportunity for playtime and the township is working to keep that up. The township…
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Italian-Americans honor musicians
2002 Columbus Award goes to Joseph Pucciatti and Sandra Milstein-Pucciatti By: Al Wicklund MONROE The Italian-American Cultural Society of Monroe Township will present its 2002 Columbus Award to Joseph Pucciatti and Sandra Milstein-Pucciatti, founders of the Boheme Opera of Trenton, at its annual Columbus Day Dinner-Dance Oct. 9 at the East Brunswick Chateau. The…
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Brother and sister to walk for autism
Walk in Mercer County Park in West Windsor By: Casha Caponegro Brother and sister Owen and Sarah Dennehy will walk for autism awareness Sunday at the Mercer County Park in West Windsor. Their team, Owen & Friends, will walk four miles at the park to raise money for the National Alliance for Autism Research. "Basically…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
