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  • Short comes long on experience

    New PHS baseball coach hopes to build powerful program By: Justin Feil    When you’re from Toms River, baseball is like breathing. You start almost the moment you’re born, and it’s pretty much part of your entire life.    The Princeton High baseball team has a lifer in Greg Short, its new head coach who takes over…

  • Marion Burnham

       Marion (Trafton) Burnham, 73, died Wednesday, March 13, at The Medical Center at Princeton.    She was born in Schiller Park, Ill., and resided in Jamesburg for many years.    Her husband, Charles T. Burnham, died in 1993.    She is survived by a son, Gregg Burnham of Budd Lake, and a daughter, Lynn Burnham of West Kenvil.…

  • Student brushing up on business skills

    Freshman hopes to earn tuition by painting houses during summer. By: Kim Nortman    As typical March weather teases New Jersey residents, shifting between bursts of winter cold and glimmers of the coming warmth, the annual summer job rush has hit area college and high school students.    While some young adults are getting jobs at their…

  • Letters to the Editor, March 19

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, March 19 By: Sharing water would end drought threat To the editor:    Here in New Jersey we have a severe drought, while Florida and the Texas coast are getting soaked with too much rain. A year ago, Florida was suffering from brush fires due to parching drought. We’ve had our ups…

  • Suit seeks to unsnarl plans for trash train

    For Montgomery, a question of emergency access to grade crossings. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — A garbage hauling company that has proposed transporting 6,000 tons of New York City’s trash across the state each day by train is suing the state Department of Environmental Protection over that agency’s failure to approve the construction of a…

  • Cool in crisis, police officer saves a life

    Packet employee found clinically dead on pressroom floor. By: David Campbell    Princeton Township Patrol Officer Kim Hodges shares a special bond with Joel Garcia Sanchez.    Last Wednesday, Mr. Sanchez, a 20-year-old press helper at The Packet, suffered a cardiac arrest while working on the pressroom floor, leaving him clinically dead.    According to Packet staffers who…

  • Hearing set on body-art ordinance

    Store owner objects to section requiring zoning approval. By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Regional Health Commission is expected to make its mark tonight on a new ordinance regulating body-art establishments.    The commission will hold a public hearing on the ordinance at a meeting scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Princeton Borough Hall.    Blake Carr,…

  • Police send local woman to the litter box

    By:    CHANDLER, Ariz. — Animal rights activists say a local woman is anything but the cat’s meow after she was charged with reckless endangerment for abandoning her feline friend and attempting to relocate to a new residence. "We find this kind of behavior deplorable. I think we know who the real diva is." Janice Cuthrow,…

  • Mentoring program brings rewards

    Middle school students provide academic help at elementary school. By: Jeff Milgram    Like any good big brother, Matthew Smith, 13, has to set some rules.    "Work comes first," Matthew tells his "little brother," Gordon Jacksom, 8. And so the first order of business is homework.    Matthew is one of more than a dozen John Witherspoon…