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  • Downtown project’s designers offer look at final elements

    Detailed design of plaza and joint-occupancy building draws favorable comments from Borough Council. By: Jennifer Potash

  • School construction makes sense

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    It is critical that each of us in Hightstown and East Windsor vote responsibly in a manner that best supports the continuing need to provide quality educational programs in an infrastructure and environment conducive to learning for our present and future students. I have the following comments in…

  • CRANBURY: A place to keep Cranbury’s history alive

    The Cranbury Historic Center is the place to go for information on your home or family in town By: Casha Caponegro    Photographs from various time periods were spread across a table as Winnie Demarest organized them into various categories.    Nearby, Township Historian Betty Wagner pored over a drawer of maps as Ginny Swanagan organized scrapbooks…

  • Rams hold on for opening-night win

    FOOTBALL: Missed opporunities allowed West Windsor-Plainsboro North to stay close to Hightstown in a 24-22 Ram victory last week. By: Neil Hay    The scoreboard showed a 2-point game, Friday night, after Hightstown opened the 2002 CVC football season with a 24-22 win over visiting West Windsor-North.    It was close on the scoreboard, all right. Not…

  • EDITORIAL: Vote ‘yes’ on Monroe school plan

    Residents have right to be concerned, but referendum will address issues    It seems like we’ve been through this before — at least twice.    On Tuesday, voters will be asked to approve a $114 million school expansion project that includes construction of a new high school on Applegarth Road, conversion of the existing high school into…

  • ‘Lighten Up’ won’t trim the weighty truth

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Sept. 20 By: Packet Editorial    We wonder if everyone had the same reaction earlier this week when the Federal Trade Commission reported that 55 percent of those weight-loss ads you see on TV, hear on the radio or read in the supermarket tabloids make claims that are almost certainly false or misleading.    No!…

  • Reiser paces surging MHS cross country team

    By: Redd E. Patrick    The Monroe High School cross country program, which continues to grow in numbers, has just one senior in the entire program, but it was the experience of that one senior – Chris Reiser – which proved to be invaluable to the team on Wednesday.    Even though Reiser ran as the seventh…

  • League to discuss town Master Plan

    Meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Monroe Township Planner Peter Tolischus will speak on the many aspects of municipal master plans when he talks to the Monroe Township League of Women Voters Monday in the Monroe Township Public Library Conference Room.    The meeting, which is open to the public, will begin…

  • Safety upgrades enough to vote ‘yes’

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    As we all remember this week the tragic events of a year ago, let us put our lives into perspective to what really is important to us. For those of us who have families, it is the safety and well-being of our children. While we cannot control the…