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  • Knight boys capture back-to-back games

    Balanced WW-PN offense, stifling defense key wins By: Justin Feil    Winning three of the last five games of its inaugural varsity season gave the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North boys’ lacrosse team confidence heading into this season.    After opening up with an 10-7 loss to Christian Brothers Academy, the Knights bounced back with an 11-4 win…

  • First-time entrants win Run With Aimee 5k

    MHS grad Harshman, elite marathoner Parton take men’s, women’s honors By: Justin Feil    Brian Harshman graduated from Montgomery High in 1981 and his parents still live in the area. But so much has changed that Harshman just had to check out the Run With Aimee 5k course before he ran it Sunday.    Harshman’s scouting paid…

  • Harvard workers bring campaign for living wage to PU

    Movement to improve pay of service staff described. By: Lindsay Dell    Edgar Barrios, a low-wage service worker at Harvard University, said Thursday night the Cambridge, Mass. institution has a lot to learn about justice.    Along with two members of Harvard’s student-based Living Wage Campaign, Mr. Barrios described what he said were Harvard’s unfair wages, meager…

  • Our lifestyle may founder in its own traffic

    PACKET EDITORIAL, April 9 By: Packet Editorial    Anybody who has driven on New Jersey’s roadways knows the "cost" — in terms of both time and temperament — of being stuck in traffic. Thanks to that tie-up at the Turnpike toll booth, or the overturned tractor-trailer on Route 1, or the rush-hour volume at bottlenecks like…

  • New contract appears near for WW-P teachers

    A sharp contrast to clash of union and board three years ago. By: Gwen Runkle    Three years ago, negotiations between the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education and the district’s teachers’ union — the West Windsor-Plainsboro Education Association — did not go smoothly.    Disagreements over teacher benefits led to state-mediated negotiations and even the threat…

  • Heller is latest in line of talented MHS pitchers

    Freshman makes sparkling debut for Cougar softball squad By: Justin Feil    The three-year evolution of the Montgomery High softball pitchers is in reverse.    Two seasons ago, powerful Katie Brennan blew away opponents with a rocket left arm. Last season, tall and lean Danielle Wyckoff used an effective mix of pitches to help the Cougars defy…

  • Moldings are essential for designer

    By: SALLY FRIEDMAN    WHEN designer Debra Barresse visits a client’s home, the first thing she looks for are the architectural aesthetics.    "If all the furnishings were pulled out of the room, would it still be interesting to look at?" ponders Ms. Barresse, interior designer/project manager in the Office of Physical Planning at Princeton University.    Ms.…

  • Township Committee gives budget a vote of confidence

    Princeton Township budget would raise municipal tax by about 5 percent. By: David Campbell    The Princeton Township Committee on Monday night unanimously introduced a $26.8 million 2002 budget, carrying a 2.5-cent increase in the municipal tax rate.    The budget represents a $1.7 million increase, or nearly 7 percent over the $25.1 million budgeted in 2001,…

  • Candidates Forum

    CANDIDATES FORUM, April 9 By: Michael Newman West Windsor candidate, West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education    As a homeowner in West Windsor, I have an interest in the level of property taxes required to support the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District. It was the quality and reputation of the district that attracted my wife and…