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  • MONROE: A Country Fair

    A wrap up of 14th annual Country Fair By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Summer’s softball players — who for several months contested for slow-pitch league supremacy on the playing fields behind Jamesburg’s Borough Hall — were replaced by hordes of fair-goers Sunday as Monroe Township’s 14th annual Country Fair took over that section of Thompson…

  • Terror attack impacts said to be short-lived

    University sponsors forum on legacies of Sept. 11 By: Lindsay Dell    While the attack on the World Trade Center in September of last year seemed to be both a symbolic and substantial blow to the nation’s economy, the actual market impact was small and short-lived, according to Princeton University Professor of Economics Paul Krugman, in…

  • Humbug!

    Griffin fuming after latest setback By: Ken Weingartner    Jim Griffin wasn’t in a particularly jovial mood Saturday afternoon, despite comparing his Monroe High football team to a rather jolly character.    "I almost feel like this team thinks we’re Santa Claus because we just give stuff away," Griffin said after the Falcons lost 21-13 to Carteret.…

  • Haneef Na’il "Buster" Thomas

       DELRAN — Haneef Na’il "Buster" Thomas, 24, died Sept. 15 in Lakewood.    Born in Princeton, he lived in Princeton and Hightstown before moving to Delran two year ago.    He played football and basketball with the East Windsor Police Athletic League.    He is survived by his mother, Aminah Q. Ali of Delran; his father, Charles Garrett…

  • WW-P South boys coming together

    Hatcher, Pirate soccer squad see toughest stretch ahead By: Justin Feil    Coming into the season, Jon Hatcher had some pretty big goals for the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South boys’ soccer team. And despite a season-ending injury to last year’s second-leading goal scorer, Jeff Fisher, and the ups and downs that have come with it in…

  • Voters offer thoughts on election

    Some residents heading to the polls Tuesday had things to say about the proposed expansion plans in the school district. By: Chris Karmiol    "If you vote against it and turn down $20 million from the state, you have to be pretty stupid," said Gene Sarafin, a 37-year resident of Hightstown.    Mr. Sarafin’s feelings on the…

  • Douglas E. Walters

       SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Douglas E. Walters, 74, died Saturday at The Medical Center at Princeton.    Born and raised in Montreal, he lived in Toronto seven years before moving to Dayton 32 years ago.    He was a sales manager for CIL Canada in Montreal and Toronto, moving to the United States when Stauffer Chemical Co. in…

  • Music in Motion

    Start with drum-and- bugle corps, mix in twirling flags and banners, add dance, lighting and >special effects – the result is blast II: Shockwave. By: Susan Van Dongen    For any musician who suffered as a youth through hours of practice, sore lips and fingers, hot and cold half-time shows and dictator-like band directors — plus…

  • Cranbury Museum to debut glass exhibit

    New exhibit opens this weekend By: Casha Caponegro    The Cranbury Museum is opening a new exhibit this weekend.    A collection of colored glass that belongs to Cranbury residents Leo and Betty Fenity will be displayed at the museum through the end of the year.    According to Historical and Preservation Society member Lyn Green, who happened…