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  • All about butter for HHS student learning in Germany

    Elizabeth Bell, a Hightstown High senior, has spent the past eight months studying and living in Germany. By: Chris Karmiol    Senior year for most high school students is about the prom, graduation and yearbook signings. For Hightstown High School senior Elizabeth Bell it’s about butter.    "I really have never seen so much butter in my…

  • Letters to the Editor, June 14

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, June 14 By: County health department is needed To the editor:    New Jersey will soon receive $27 million in federal funds to strengthen its public health infrastructure and hospital preparedness to respond to acts of terrorism. These funds will go to New Jersey counties that have county-level oversight, such as county…

  • Youth urged to combat violence with creativity

    Student Art Night will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at The Arts Council of Princeton. By: Jeff Milgram    The Coalition for Peace Action and The Arts Council of Princeton are saying Y.E.S. to stopping school violence.    Y.E.S. — which stands for Youth Empowerment in Schools — will hold Student Art Night from…

  • Council upholds Renaissance Commons approval

       JAMESBURG — A bid by two borough residents to have a decision by the Land Use Board to approve the construction of an office building overturned was unsuccessful. By: Al Wicklund    JAMESBURG — A bid by two borough residents to have a decision by the Land Use Board to approve the construction of an office…

  • Borough hairstylist to celebrate 50th anniversary

    From the days of being a barber shop to today’s hairstylist, the Varo family has been dealing with hair in Hightstown since 1952. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — When inspiration struck Jim Varo to ditch his milk delivery route and go into business for himself, times were a little different. In 1952, a shave and…

  • District tables camera proposal

    The Web camera would be used as an educational tool for Cranbury School students. By: Casha Caponegro    CRANBURY — School officials have put a proposal to place a Web camera on the Town Hall clock tower on hold until later this summer.    "I have been asked to table this proposal," said Cranbury School Technology Coordinator…

  • Princeton Temperature Record – June, 2002

    By: Tom Lederer The Princeton Temperature Record is based on readings from a Nimbus Ultra digital thermometer with an accuracy of 0.2 degrees F. Readings, taken in Princeton Township near the Princeton Shopping Center, are rounded to the nearest degree. DATE HIGH LOW June 30, 2002 NA 64 June 29, 2002 88 69 June 28,…

  • Cranbury 8th-graders look back

    Cranbury School students say they will miss their friends and teachers when they begin high school in September. By: Casha Caponegro    Cranbury School Student Council officers say they will miss their friends and teachers when they begin high school in September.    On Tuesday, the Cranbury School will say goodbye to 73 eighth-graders, who will embark…

  • Contest winners honored by council

    By: Al Wicklund    MONROE —The Monroe Township Council honored 34 winners in the annual human relations poster and essay contest for Monroe Township school children at its business meeting last week.    Deborah Wolfe, chairwoman of the township Human Relations Commission, the contest sponsor, said at the council’s June 5 meeting the students and their essays…