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  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Minck is in style for MHS girls’ hoops By: Justin Feil    When Paul Popadiuk decided to change the style of the Montgomery High girls’ basketball team to a more uptempo offense and a pressing man-to-man defense, it was for players like Jessica Minck.    At 5-foot-6, Minck doesn’t have the height of Cougar players of the…

  • Joel Mayer

       Joel Mayer, 72, of Monroe and Palm City, Fla., died Saturday, Dec. 22, at Martin Memorial Hospital in Stuart, Fla.    Born in Newark, Dr. Mayer lived in Colonia for 27 years before moving to Bloomingdale.    He was an osteopathic physician and founding partner of Avenel-Iselin Medical Group, where he practiced medicine alongside his two sons,…

  • School board pans community room bids

    The board postponed making a decision on the bid in order to look into other options. By: Casha Caponegro    The Board of Education is not satisfied with the bids it received for the creation of a large group/community room in the Cranbury School and may revise its plans in order to reduce the cost of…

  • Cranbury family begins to rebuild after fire

    ‘You don’t know how kind and good-hearted people are until something bad happens.’ By: Casha Caponegro    CRANBURY — The once-white exterior of 131 N. Main St. is now partially blackened on its right side as a result of the Dec. 26 fire that left the home uninhabitable.    Many windows are boarded up and a charred…

  • Re-election run, revitalization on Aughenbaugh’s agenda

    Hightstown’s mayor has full confidence in the Borough Council, believing it to be a diverse mixture of people and talents. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — Mayor Amy Aughenbaugh hopes to have something this year that she always seemed to miss in 2001 — time.    With a state Senate race, the fallout of the Sept. 11…

  • YMCA starts year with new programs

    The Hightstown-East Windsor YMCA will be offering a wider range of programs this year to attract preschoolers, teen-agers and adults to the Mercer Street center. By: Chris Karmiol    The Hightstown-East Windsor YMCA on Mercer Street is "the cheapest day care around," according to Tracy Carroll, its program director. But this year the YMCA hopes to…

  • Borough Council welcomes new faces

    Dan Buriak and Rick Pratt were sworn into their positions on the council Tuesday. Mike Vanderbeck was again chosen as council president. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council’s 2002 reorganization meeting began Tuesday with a roll call, and less than one minute later, council members Sherry Whitman and Bob Patten quietly melted into…

  • Nine professors chosen to join Princeton’s faculty

       Princeton University has appointed nine new full professors.    They are: William Bialek, professor of physics; Marina Brownlee, professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures; Benjamin Elman, professor of East Asian studies and history; Bjorn Engquist, the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics; David Gabai, professor of mathematics; Philip…

  • Terrorism is top story of past year

    A story that reverberated across the globe tops the list of the 10 most important local stories of the year 2001 in Hightstown and East Windsor. By: T.J. Furman    The first 253 days of the year 2001 were marked, locally, by the same kind of news typical for any other year recorded on the pages…