Category: archives
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Time to campaign against referendum
Letter to the editor To the editor: Once again the taxpayers of Hightstown and East Windsor will be asked to reach into their pockets and pay for school expansion in the school district. While the referendum vote is 10 months away the time is now to start collectively organizing against any new increases in school…
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Challenge to overcrowding laws still in court
By: Jennifer Potash A Princeton Borough man may have to wait a few more months for his day in court on his lawsuit challenging Princeton Borough’s ordinances designed to control overcrowding in residences. Some of the issues were resolved in court Dec. 10, Borough Attorney Michael Herbert said. But the overall lawsuit is still before…
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Princeton men tame Leopards
Tigers knock off Lafayette for first time in four seasons By: Justin Feil The Princeton University men’s basketball did something Friday night at Jadwin Gym that it had not done in three previous season. It defeated Lafayette, 67-61, the first win over the Leopards since a 73-48 win at Jadwin in the 1997-98 season. …
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School officials seek to smooth out ‘bumpy ride’ for construction project
‘It’s fair to say it will be a challenge and we will make the best of it.’ By: Jeff Milgram Virtually everyone in the Princeton Regional School District knows the $81 million construction project, which will start next fall, is going to be a monster. "We know this is going to look like a lunar…
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School facilities ‘wish list’ total: $35 million
By: Gwen Runkle In order to help the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education in upcoming budgetary discussions, Bob Austin, the district’s director of facilities, outlined the district’s five-year facilities plan Tuesday. The comprehensive $35 million plan summarizes the need for more than 500 projects to fix up and add to the district’s physical plant,…
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Discipline troubles lead to loss
ICE HOCKEY: Even while defeating Pennington Prep, 12-2, Monday there were signs of problems that would resurface in Tuesday’s loss to Steinert. By: Neil Hay It is still early in the season plenty of time left to correct what could be a fatal flaw in the character of this team. Left unchecked, however, the…
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Vincent J. Crawford
Paul f. D’Agostino, 79, of Monroe and West Palm Beach, Fla., died peacefully on Tuesday, Dec. 11, at his Florida home. Born in New York City, he had lived in Edison before moving to Monroe. He was the retired owner and founder of La Bonbonniere Bake Shoppes. He was a certified master baker. He retired…
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Man remembered as one who got involved
Monroe resident Martin Gibbons always spoke his mind. By: Al Wicklund MONROE Martin Gibbons was remembered by one of his sons this week as "an incredibly active man," who had wisdom, loved poetry, was politically active, was politically incorrect and was, in his 90s, still young of mind and young at heart. Mr. Gibbons,…
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Voters back land purchase
MONROE District 3 to move ahead on firehouse substation. By: Al Wicklund MONROE Residents of Fire District No. 3 authorized the district’s Board of Fire Commissioners to spend up to $424,000 to buy land next year to be used as a satellite firehouse. More than 50 residents cast paper-ballot votes Tuesday during a…
