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  • Plainsboro’s budget requires no tax hike

    Township Committee adopts $14.9 million spending plan. By: Gwen Runkle    PLAINSBORO — After absolutely no public comment Wednesday, the Township Committee unanimously adopted a $14.9 million municipal budget for 2002.    Although the budget represents a 4.7-percent increase — about $670,000 over the $14.3 million 2001 budget — the tax impact on residents remains unchanged.    The…

  • Facing the Blank Page

    Author Margaret Atwood will give the keynote talk and read her poetry at The College of New Jersey Writers’ Conference April 18. By: Jillian Kalonick Canadian author Margaret Atwood will give the keynote talk and read her poetry at The College of New Jersey Writers’ Conference April 18.    As readers, we often hold authors to…

  • Lawrence post office open late

    The Trenton Circle Branch Station on Business Route 1 in Lawrence Township will be the only local post office open until midnight on tax day. By: Scott Morgan    Local procrastinators take note: If you’re planning on filing your taxes at midnight Monday, you’ll have to go to Lawrence to do it.    The U.S. Postal Service…

  • Home Improvement Magazine

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  • Second outing is a charm

    Caracappa hurls North baseball to first win By: Justin Feil    Doug Caracappa was the tough-luck loser in his first outing of the baseball season. The West Windsor-Plainsboro High North junior threw a two-hitter, but lost, 1-0, as the Knights did not collect a hit against WW-P South.    By the time Caracappa took the mound for…

  • James Ritter

       EAST WINDSOR — James Ritter, 78, died April 2 at VA Medical Center, Lyons.    Born in Hightstown, he was a lifelong area resident.    Mr. Ritter was a retired self-employed carpenter.    A Coast Guard veteran of World War II, he was a past commander of VFW Post 5700, Hightstown, and member of American Legion Post 148,…

  • University panel rejects selling Israeli-tied investments

    The Princeton Divestment Campaign cites troop occupation and human rights abuses. By: Jeff Milgram    A key university committee has rejected a call for Princeton to divest itself of more than $100 million in investments in companies that have ties to Israel.    The Resource Committee of the Council for the Princeton University Community voted on March…

  • Taking advantage

    Falcons not wasting charitable early schedule By: Redd E. Patrick    The schedule maker has been kind to the Monroe High School golf team this season.    Not only did he schedule three programs right off the bat that are young and struggling in the early going and who are all in the Blue Division of the…

  • Local novelist uses wartime Germany as setting

    Encounter with a German border guard in the early Cold War days started the now retired dean thinking about a book. By: Al Wicklund     MONROE — Stephen Lourie of The Ponds uses the sights and history of Germany from 1912 through the end of World War II as a backdrop in his first novel,…