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  • Robbers stick up bank

    Heist is second in four months By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — For the second time in four months, gun-toting robbers staged a daylight bank holdup in the township.    Police are searching for two people who, while armed and masked, held up the Sovereign Bank at 4 p.m. Feb. 15 and escaped with thousands of dollars.…

  • PU men knock off Yale

    Tigers a half game out of first place; host Brown in home finale tonight By: Justin Feil In the first meeting of the year Feb. 9 between the Princeton and Yale men’s basketball teams, it was the Tigers that were shut down by the Yale defense. Princeton shot just 37 percent in a 60-50 loss…

  • Café Classics Blues Club & Restaurant

    In Doylestown, Pa., Southern cooking and blues combine for good times in a cool atmosphere. By: Pat Tanner Café Classics Blues Club & Restaurant 916 N. Easton Road Doylestown, Pa. (215) 489-3535 www.cafeclassics.org Food: Very good Service: Accommodating Prices: Inexpensive to moderate Cuisine: Traditional Southern and modern American Ambiance: Blues club with bar and tables…

  • Rams set to take shot at .500 mark

    GIRLS BASKETBALL: Tonight’s season finale against Ewing will determine whether Hightstown finishes with an even mark or a losing record. By: Neil Hay    Pride and a possible .500 record this year. A winning record and states next year. All that is at stake as the Hightstown High School girls’ basketball team plays its best basketball…

  • Area residents charged with insider trading

    By: George Frey    The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in United States District Court Tuesday against several area residents it says profited illegally from insider trading.    Among those named are John and Nancy Kramer and Richard Pulling of Montgomery Township and Lucien Yokana of Princeton Township.    The suit alleges that on two separate…

  • Falcons win state title

    VOLLEYBALL: The hopes for the Peddie girls volleyball team were not high when the season started. By: Neil Hay    When a team begins a new season with only modest goals and goes on to win a state championship, that’s a great story.    That is the story of the Peddie School volleyball team.    Jan Webb, in…

  • Schools to start food drive

    Canned goods and non-perishable food items will be collected for needy families By: Casha Caponegro    Cranbury residents soon will have a chance to help the less fortunate.    Community members are encouraged to donate canned goods and nonperishable food items to needy families during the Middlesex County Food Organization and Outreach Distribution Services’ seventh annual spring…

  • Bucking Trends

    Saxophonist Richard Hodges will perform with pianist John Forconi at the Unitarian Church of Princeton Feb. 24. By: Jillian Kalonick    When French composer Charles Koechlin heard a song he didn’t like, he changed it. Following this creative conviction, classical saxophonist Richard Hodges selected a Koechlin composition and made the piece his own.    Mr. Hodges’ admiration…

  • Honors for KIKS success

    John Witherspoon Middle School is being honored for its role in a 15-year program that has reduced teen smoking, drug use and binge drinking and has promoted safe sex practices. By: Jeff Milgram    John Witherspoon Middle School will be honored today in Trenton for its role in a 15-year program that has significantly reduced teen…