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  • Silva taking wait and see approach to season

    By: Rich Fisher    If you’re looking for an in-depth analysis of how the Cranbury School baseball team will be this year, check back in a few weeks.    "It’s just too early to tell how they look," coach Frank Silva said. "I don’t’ know what I can even say at this point."    The Vikings, coming off…

  • Pauly shores up PU bullpen

    Tiger sophomore finds success as closer By: Justin Feil        Princeton University baseball coach Scott Bradley was just following a lead from an old friend when he first looked at pitching prospect Thomas Pauly, then a lanky right-hander with a big sweeping side-armed motion for Episcopal of Jacksonville in Florida.    "One of the big reasons…

  • Board fails to support bank, CVS plan

    Proposal includes major changes at intersection on Montgomery border. By: David Campbell    A Princeton Township advisory board Wednesday night voted to reject a developer’s plan to build a Commerce Bank and CVS drugstore near the Montgomery Township line off Route 206.    The Site Plan Review Advisory Board of the Princeton Regional Planning Board voted 4-1,…

  • Committee hopefuls file in Cranbury

    Democrat Rebecca Beauregard and Republican John Ziegler Sr. are running unopposed in the primaries. By: Casha Caponegro    Two Prospect Street residents have thrown their hats in the ring for a seat on the Township Committee.    Democrat Rebecca Beauregard and Republican John Ziegler Sr. are both running unopposed for their party’s nomination for a three-year seat…

  • Hightstown nine lacking intensity

    BASEBALL: Losses to Ewing and Nottingham this week extended the Rams losing streak to four games and dropped their record to 0-5. By: Neil Hay    It is getting late early for Hightstown baseball.    The Rams played better Monday but not well enough to prevent their fourth straight loss, bowing 2-1 in eight innings to 4-0…

  • Margaretta ‘Betty’ Hart Layton

       HIGHTSTOWN — Margaretta "Betty" Hart Layton, 85, died Saturday at home.    Born in Mercerville, she lived in Mercerville and Pennington until recently moving to Meadow Lakes in Hightstown.    She was a 1934 graduate of Trenton Central High School and had been a bookkeeper with Hopewell Valley Golf Club 22 years.    Mrs. Layton was a member…

  • Analyst urges getting tough on Pakistan

    Says Pakistan allowed thousands of al-Queda soldiers to slip through its borders. By: Jennifer Potash    LAWRENCE — America’s greatest hope for security in central Asia may be taking a tougher line with Pakistan on terrorists, according to a former intelligence analyst.    Julie Sirrs, a specialist on Afghanistan formerly with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, provided…

  • Adelante! to attend seminar

    Students in the high school’s Latino student club will get a look at what college life is like at Rider University next week. By: Chris Karmiol    Next week students from Hightstown High School’s Adelante! club will get a firsthand taste of college life while at the same time learning some keys to success.    The high…

  • Traveling Light

    Traditional folk group The Be Good Tanyas play the Union Firehouse in Titusville April 14. By: Matt Smith    Most bands can trace their beginnings to a teen-age jam session in their drummer’s parents’ garage, or maybe a want ad in the back of the Village Voice that led to a regular gig at some dive…