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  • Rams need surge to make playoffs

    GIRLS BASKETBALL: At one game under .500 it’s going to be a close call as to whether Hightstown can make it to the NJSIAA state playoffs. By: Neil Hay    There is still time — the cutoff is date is Feb. 2 — but right now making the state playoffs looks too close to call for…

  • Students are focus of King celebration

    Princeton University to grant poster and essay awards. By: Jeff Milgram    Princeton University will observe a Martin Luther King Day Celebration on Monday with a tribute that will include a keynote address by DeForest Soaries, a choir performance and the presentation of awards to essay and poster contest winners from area schools.    The program will…

  • Borough police seek utility worker impostor

    A man this week posed as a Borough Water Department employee to gain entrance into a house. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — Police are urging residents to be on the lookout for an impostor posing as a public utilities worker.    Police said "a dark-skinned" man, approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall, with a heavy build…

  • Trapasso thinks PHS hoop team has turned the corner

    By: Bob Nuse    Now that the Princeton High boys’ basketball team is playing better basketball, senior Jon Trapasso hopes a sluggish start doesn’t wind up putting a damper on its recent success.    "It’s a nice streak, but we’re still not where we want to be," said Trapasso, a Cranbury resident who scored 19 points Tuesday…

  • Profaci’s wrestlers making rapid gains

    By: Ken Weingartner    The Monroe High wrestling team isn’t ready to threaten the top squads in the Greater Middlesex Conference. Not yet, anyway.    But the Falcons certainly are attracting notice as a team on the rise.    Despite suffering a 45-21 setback to unbeaten South River Wednesday night, Monroe has put together a successful dual meet…

  • Small town seeks a better way to control deer

    Cayuga Heights, N.Y., opted to take part in an experimental sterilization program with researchers at Cornell University. By: David Campbell    At first, the Cayuga Heights Deer Committee in Cayuga Heights, N.Y., was leaning toward killing deer as a solution to deer-car collisions, Lyme disease and damage to ornamental shrubs caused by the animals.    But an…

  • Smaller Sarnoff plan still may face a fight

    New development plan submitted, but a zoning change is in the works. By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — The new development plan for Sarnoff Corp.’s proposed Route 1 technology campus is now in the township’s hands.    But while the plan, which was filed Friday, calls for developing 20.7 percent of the company’s 345-acre property, which…

  • Montgomery delegates shine at Model U.N.

       Earlier this month, 37 students from Montgomery High School’s Model U.N. Club competed in the 30th Annual YMCA Model United Nations Assembly Program at the Hershey Hotel and Conference Center in Hershey, Pa. Under the guidance of adviser Paul Stemmler, members of the club competed against schools from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania to…

  • Vikings show signs of progress in girls basketball

    By: Rich Fisher    With a relatively inexperienced team, Frank Silva was not expecting miracles from the Cranbury School girls basketball team.    He was hoping for improvement, however, and seems to be getting that.    Despite an 0-4 start, the Vikings played their best game of the season last Thursday in a 29-26 loss to Kreps."    "We…