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  • Hightstown pins down impressive win

    WRESTLING: The Rams rolled to an easy 74-6 victory over the visiting Tornadoes of Trenton. By: Neil Hay    After several very competitive matches this season, the Hightstown wrestling team needed an easy one. Enter Trenton.    The visiting Tornadoes offered little resistance Wednesday night as the Rams won big, 74-6.    The match began at 135 with…

  • Maguire GMC champ in 800 meters

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    TEANECK – From the moment the gun went off in the girls’ 800 meter race, it was easy to see that Ashley Maguire was on a mission. The Monroe Township High School junior jumped out to the head of the pack and never relinquished the lead as the seeded heat sped…

  • Voyage to escape Nazis to be recalled

    Then 10 years old, Harry Fuld was a passenger on the infamous St. Louis. By: Chris Karmiol    WEST WINDSOR — It may have been his most memorable voyage, but it wouldn’t be his final one.    Harry Fuld, an unassuming elderly man who lives with his wife, Janice, in a quiet complex of age-restricted housing in…

  • Winter’s Soothing Voices

    Antioch, an a cappella choir with roots in Princeton, will perform at St. Bernard’s Episcopal Church in Bernardsville Feb. 3 in a benefit concert for the St. Bernard’s Community Fund. By: Susan Van Dongen Antioch, an a cappella choir with roots in Princeton.    It must have seemed like a very bad omen. Antioch — an…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Oser goes on offensive in North wins By: Justin Feil    It wasn’t the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North team defense that won it the first-ever Titans Cup championship, but it was the defense.    Two defensemen, Alan Moomaw and Ben Oser, knocked home overtime game-winners in the Knights’ title trip. In the Titans Cup opener last Friday…

  • Russell on a roll in ice hockey

    PHS goalie becomes a premier puck stopper in three short years By: Rich Fisher    In mapping her athletic future, Britney Russell never really sat down and said "I think I’ll be a hockey goalie."    Then again, who would?    In fact, Russell was nudged into it from the get-go, and now she is nudging the Princeton…

  • Missing Plainsboro woman in need of medication

       PLAINSBORO — Sharon Johnson, 29, was reported missing Jan. 6.    Police said Ms. Johnson, who is black, 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs 175 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes, was last seen wearing bluejeans, a brown suede jacket and black shoes at her residence in Plainsboro by her mother.    She also was…

  • Budget crisis trickles down to local level

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 25 By: Packet Editorial    Remember Ronald Reagan’s "trickle-down" economics? Take money away from the federal government and give it back to rich people and it would literally trickle down to middle-class and lower-income Americans, thereby stimulating the economy.    It was nonsense, of course. Even the chief proponent of this theory, David Stockman,…

  • Voters endorse school expansion

    Supporters cite crowding, growth By: Casha Caponegro    Many of the voters who approved Tuesday’s referendum to fund a $7.3 million expansion to the Cranbury School were parents with children currently in the school.    "I have two youngsters here and one in the high school now," said Tom Fisher, who voted "Yes" on the referendum. "It’s…