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  • Mueller takes over as MHS head baseball coach

    Former assistant succeeds Milich By: Bob Nuse    Montgomery High School has a new baseball coach this year. But it might be hard to tell the difference between the new and the old.    Pete Mueller, an assistant for the past four years under Zoran Milich, has moved up a notch from the junior varsity to the…

  • Foundation gets Gates education grant

    Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation will play a major role in a new, $5.8 million program to help urban high school juniors and seniors get a head start on college. By: Jeff Milgram    The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation in West Windsor will play a major role in a new, $5.8 million, five-year program to help urban…

  • Vets, newcomers give Rams a good mix

    GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD: The Rams’ season gets underway April 3 with a home meet against Ewing and Allentown. By: Neil Hay    With 14 returnees – and a bunch of new faces – the Hightstown High School girls’ track team sets forth for another spring campaign.    Numbers do not appear to be a problem for…

  • Charlotte Lucy Kirkpatric

       LITTLE RIVER, S.C. — Charlotte Lucy Kirkpatrick, 76, died March 13.    She was born in Long Branch and later lived in Cranbury.    Daughter of the late Albert Kellington and Charlotte Storer Kellington, she is survived by her husband, Carl Kirkpatrick of Little River; her daughter and son-in-law, Charlotte and Bob McCallum of Hightstown; and three…

  • Clearbrook Seder celebrates Jewish women

    By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — More than 100 women gathered to celebrate a women’s Seder Monday at the Clearbrook Cultural Center.    The Seder, conducted by Rabbi Shira Stern, was sponsored by the Clearbrook Section of the National Council of Jewish Women.    The meal and ritual served as alerts to the role of Jewish women in…

  • Historic district may be expanding

    An expanded historic district in Hightstown could include parts of North Main Street and the Cedar Hill Cemetery. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — The downtown historic district could be growing — and business owners could get a break in the process.    Councilman Dan Buriak, liaison to the borough’s Historic Preservation Commission, said there is a…

  • Tax system’s unfairness is all too clear

    PACKET EDITORIAL, March 22 By: Packet Editorial    It may be pure coincidence that talk of property-tax reform is heating up in Trenton just as school boards around the state are finalizing their 2002-2003 budgets, but the timing is certainly fortuitous. Nothing so graphically illustrates the unfairness of New Jersey’s over-reliance on property taxes as a…

  • Group asks for allies against Arts Council plan

    Princeton Human Services Commission hears from Witherspoon-Jackson Association. By: Jennifer Potash    The proposed Arts Council of Princeton expansion threatens an at-risk neighborhood and should not go forward, several Princeton residents said at a meeting Wednesday with the Princeton Human Services Commission    Jim Floyd Sr. of Harris Road and other members of the Witherspoon-Jackson Association offered…

  • 2.5-cent tax increase for Princeton Township to get review

    A $26.8 million budget represents an increase of 7 percent. By: David Campbell    The Princeton Township Committee is expected to introduce a $26.8 million 2002 budget early next month, carrying a 2.5-cent increase in the municipal tax rate.    The budget is subject to modifications pending the receipt of state and school-district figures, said township Chief…