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  • Carteret ousts Falcon softball team from CJ II tournament

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    CARTERET – The four-exit trip up the Jersey Turnpike on Thursday afternoon turned into a disappointing journey for the Monroe Township High School softball team. Carteret knocked the Lady Falcons out of this year’s NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II Tournament with a 2-0 victory in the quarter-final round.    Going into the…

  • Town ready for Strawberrberry festival

    By: Casha Caponegro    The Board of Deacons at the First Presbyterian Church will put the "berry" into Cranbury on June 1.    The annual Strawberry Festival is set to be held that afternoon from 4 to 8 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury.    Families are invited to enjoy an afternoon of games, entertainment and…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    MHS’ Dorsey saves best for last By: Justin Feil    When Kyle Dorsey reflects on his high school career, he’s not going to remember a daunting losing streak, but rather he’ll fondly recall his final two games with the Montgomery High boys’ lacrosse team. Those two games are when the Cougars played the best as a…

  • DISPATCHES: Out here in the provinces of Princeton

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Our columnist sticks up for the Princeton’s neighbors.    The Princeton Racquet Club is not in Princeton (it’s in South Brunswick).    Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, is in South Brunswick, though it pays for a Princeton post office box to maintain a Princeton mailing address.    The residents…

  • MHS baseball is error-free in state tourney win

    Cougars faces Carteret today By: Bob Nuse    All season long, Peter Mueller has known his Montgomery High baseball team was capable of playing the way it did on Monday. He’s just happy his players turned in that performance in the opening round of the Central Jersey Group II tournament.    "That was a tough place to…

  • Quarry conundrum

    3M operation eats boulders for lunch but struggles with some little things. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — Driving along the quiet back roads that plunge through the wooded northeast of the township, or gazing at the deep green mass of the Sourland Mountain, you could be forgiven for being unaware that not too far away…

  • $18.5 million budget introduced in borough

    A public hearing will be held June 25. By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Borough Council voted unanimously Tuesday to introduce the 2002 municipal budget, which carries a 3.5-cent increase in the tax rate.    The public hearing on the $18.5 million budget will be held June 25.    The proposed municipal tax rate is 67.5 cents per…

  • Pirate girls’ lacrosse falls short in states

    South must replace four valuable seniors By: Justin Feil    The West Windsor-Plainsboro High South girls’ lacrosse team knew that Hunterdon Central was a very good team, but didn’t know how good until the two squad met in the North A state tournament’s first round on Tuesday.    The Pirates saw their season end with a 13-8…

  • Live! On the Web

    Township Committee mulls Web camera for Town Hall clock tower. By: Casha Caponegro    Images of Cranbury may be broadcast on the Internet in the near future.    On Monday, the Township Committee heard a proposal by Cranbury School Technology Coordinator Mark Nestor and resident Bill Kanawyer to install a hand-sized camera in the clock tower of…