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Times of yore is theme for Renaissance Faire
Jousting, minstrels and good old-fashioned merrymaking are on tap this weekend in Mercer County Park. By: Gwen Runkle WEST WINDSOR If jousting, minstrels and good old-fashioned merrymaking are your thing, then head over to the West Windsor Lions Club’s Renaissance Faire Weekend Festival in Mercer County Park on Saturday and Sunday. From 10 a.m.…
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MHS softball advances in usual fashion
Cougars, Heller get out of last-inning pinch By: Justin Feil Bottom of the seventh. A one-run lead. Runners on second and third and only one out. Its players admit to some nervousness, but that has never showed on the Montgomery High softball team, which has made a habit of winning tight one-run contests. The Cougars…
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Crowley, Pilgrim highlight sectional track
Area girls advance to state Group meet By: Justin Feil When Astrid Pilgrim got home from the Central Jersey Group III sectionals, she fell asleep on the floor in her living room. "I was pretty tired," the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North senior said. "I just kind of closed my eyes and when I woke up…
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Illuminating Human Spirit
The Langhorne Players bring ‘Hard Feelings,’ ‘Comic Potential’ and ‘The Elephant Man’ to the stage in Newtown, Pa. On Stage: Pennsylvania Listings By: Jodi Thompson Langhorne Players recently received kudos for producing Coyote on a Fence, the first play of their summer season. The accolades came not only from the usual source of critics or…
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Effective conservation policies begin with master plan
Watershed Association offers four-part lecture series to advise towns on taking command of their own futures. By: David Campbell Effective conservation policies begin with an articulate master plan, according to speakers in a four-part lecture series currently being run by the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association. "The series is designed to engage towns in the idea…
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University prepares for reunions, commencement
One highlight of the weekend will be the annual P-rade through the campus beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday. By: Jeff Milgram Legendary Princeton University tailback Dick Kazmaier, who completed 123 passes for 960 yards and 13 touchdowns and won the Heisman Trophy as America’s top college football player in 1951, says he’s coming back to…
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Photo exhibit recalls Sept. 11 victim’s life
‘A Life Lost, A Spirit Preserved The Work of James Edward Potorti’ will be unveiled at The Arts Council of Princeton’s WPA Gallery on Friday. By: Gwen Runkle When Plainsboro resident Nikki Stern thinks about her husband, James Edward Potorti, she of course remembers him as more than just one of the many people…
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PHS, Lalli shut out Seton Hall Prep lax
Little Tigers to meet No. 5 Mountain Lakes on Wednesday By: Justin Feil Chris Lalli doesn’t want to take full credit for the shutout he posted in the Princeton High boys’ lacrosse team’s 13-0 state tournament opening win over Seton Hall Prep on Friday. Instead, the Little Tigers’ goaltender says he owes much of it…
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Senate proposal could halt deer cull
Bill would impose a statewide moratorium on killing deer under the state’s deer-management program. By: David Campbell A bill is being drafted in the New Jersey Legislature that would impose a statewide moratorium on deer killing under the state’s deer-management program while a task force conducts an investigation. "The moratorium goes beyond the issue of…
