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  • Monroe girl donates locks to charity

    Jamie Peto had 12 inches of her hair cut off and donated it to Wigs for Kids, which will turn it into wigs for cancer patients. By: Stacey Gorski    About a year ago, Jamie Peto, now a first-grade student at Mill Lake School, was watching television in her family’s Monroe Township home when she saw…

  • Hard work continues for winless Pirate boys

    WW-PS has two chances remaining By: Bob Nuse    The West Windsor-Plainsboro High South boys’ basketball team has taken the court for a game 17 times this season. Each time the Pirates have come out on the short end of the score.    But that hasn’t stopped the Pirates from coming out and working just as hard…

  • B-ball league offers a break from routine

    By: Melissa Morgan    Frank Shea always finds the open man.    On Tuesday night in the Cranbury School gym, he dribbled down the court, his sneakers squeaking on polished hardwood, and made a quick pass to his teammate. This time however, he got the ball back and looked around to find no one open, but the…

  • Campion proves she’s a ‘grand’ hoops player

    Christina Campion, Peddie’s newest 1,000-point scorer, owes her decision to enroll at Peddie to the family of her teammate, Jenna Graber. By: Neil Hay    Perhaps the most important assist Christina Campion ever received from Jenna Graber was the one that went down even before Campion had enrolled at Peddie.    To be more precise, actually, the…

  • PHS girls win thrilling swim sectional

    By: Justin Feil    In the first meet of the season between the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North and Princeton High girls’ swim teams, North won a close one, 86-84, despite a strong 400 free relay finish by PHS.    The teams met again Wednesday at DeNunzio Pool in a Central Jersey ‘B’ quarterfinal, and the Little Tigers…

  • Jamesburg faces tax increase

    The Borough Council introduced a $4.37 million preliminary budget Wednesday, a $119,311 hike in spending. By: Al Wicklund    JAMESBURG — Increased costs for health benefits for full-time borough employees is a key factor in what could be a 6.27 percent increase in municipal property taxes this year.    The Borough Council introduced a $4.37 million preliminary…

  • Princeton researchers finding emotion the key to conscience

    By analyzing brain activity, they have uncovered the process the brain uses to distinguish between moral choices. By: Jeff Milgram    Imagine this dilemma:    A train is hurtling down the track and will kill five people unless you switch it onto a spur where it will kill only one person. What do you do?    Here’s another…

  • Looking for love in different places

    What do single people do on Valentine’s Day, or those people whose relationships are not progressing as quickly or perfectly as Hollywood would have us believe? What of people who are not happily coupled? By: Dawn Nikithser    When Valentine’s Day rolls around, everything seems directed at happy couples: Dinners for two, weekends for two, his-and-her…

  • The Emperor’s New Egg

    A father’s work is never done in Betty Tatham’s children’s story. By: Daniel Shearer