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  • Bette Snedeker Eisenmann

       SAN FRANCISCO — Bette Snedeker Eisenmann, 70, died Jan. 10 at home.    Born in Princeton, N.J., she was a lifelong resident before moving to San Francisco six years ago.    She was a graduate of Princeton High School and retired in 1996 after many years as a secretary for the aeronautical engineering department of Princeton University.…

  • HHS wins battle of first-place squads

    BOYS BASKETBALL: A 50-47 win over Colonial Division leader Hamilton broke the trend for the Valley Division-leading Rams this season. By: Neil Hay    Unlike previous games against Hun and Notre Dame that also had the makings of the same unsatisfactory ending, the Hightstown boys basketball team found a way to hold on at the end…

  • McCaffrey’s expansion cooking

    Addition to supermarket in Princeton Shopping Center is progressing rapidly and should be complete by the end of April. By: David Campbell    The expansion of McCaffrey’s supermarket is rapidly progressing and should be complete by the end of April, said McCaffrey’s Vice President Mark Eckhouse.    The anchor store at Princeton Shopping Center is adding 9,450…

  • AROUND CRANBURY

    A week for school spirit By: Lorraine Sedor    Robert L.Copeland, son-in-law of Rita and Edward Durner of South Main Street, and brother-in-law of Joan Wittman and Edward Durner Jr., both of Cranbury, has accepted the position of Superintendent of Schools for the Piscataway School District in Middlesex County.    Bob began his career with the Princeton…

  • Expansion in voters’ hands

    Few attend final Q&A By: Casha Caponegro    Three residents came out learn more about the school district’s plan to expand during a question and answer night at the Cranbury School Tuesday    Voters will be asked to approve a $7.3 million school expansion project during a referendum Jan. 22. The proposal includes a new gymnasium and…

  • Sending their love overseas

    The Red Cross Club of Hightstown High School has teamed with other area clubs to send 1,000 Valentine’s Day cards to U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany. By: Chris Karmiol    Hightstown High School’s Red Cross Club has assembled an army, of sorts, to spread Valentine’s Day cheer to American soldiers posted in Dexheim, Germany.    After sending…

  • EDITORIAL

    Expansion plan is wise investment Gov. James E. McGreevey appears ready to take the state in a new direction on needle-exchange programs.    At a press conference last week introducing his nominee for health commissioner, Dr. Clifton R. Lacy, he declared that the time may be at hand to let drug addicts get free needles as…

  • Students test geographical wits

    In the Kreps School’s annual geography bee, Pramod Thammaiah came away victorious with a chance to advance to the state bee. By: Julie Gartland    Pramod Thammaiah, a seventh-grade student at the Melvin H. Kreps Middle School, won the school-level competition of the National Geographic Bee on Jan. 10 and a chance at a $25,000 college…

  • Montgomery Democrats reverse bridge decision

    Historic Opossum Road span will now be one-way instead of two-way. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — After voting in October to re-open the Opossum Road bridge to two-way traffic, despite dedicated and prolonged public outcry, the Township Committee quietly reversed itself Wednesday night.    The committee, which shifted party control earlier this month, voted 3-2 to…