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  • Coffee Talk: Holiday madness begins

    Apophasis is the literary or rhetorical device that is used when a writer asserts or emphasizes something by pretending to ignore it, or by drawing attention to it and then rejecting it. I decided it would be the best tool for my mood, not to mention the topic, this week. By: Stacey Gorski Apophasis is…

  • PU tops Rider as series resumes

    Logan’s 18 lead Tigers to 69-57 win By: Justin Feil        After an 0-3 start, there were restless nights in John Thompson’s household, and not just because of his four-month-old son. The Princeton University head men’s basketball coach can rest easier after watching his Tigers put Rider to bed early in a 69-57 win Wednesday…

  • Thespians ready for ‘Showcase 2001’

    MONROE- High School students are working hard for this year’s production. By: Nick D’Amore    MONROE — It is intense and carefree all at once.    The Monroe High School students rehearsing for next week’s drama department production, "Showcase 2001," are idly chatting with each other, reading over their parts or just hanging back.    But, when it’s…

  • PHS delegates gather honors at Model UN

    By: Carly Rothman    Princeton High School’s Model United Nations club returned triumphant from the Princeton University High School Model United Nations Conference that took place Nov. 16-18 on the university campus.    Two PHS delegates received the Gavel, the award for best delegate, and one student received an honorable mention, making this the single most successful…

  • Column: Justin Time

    Give us another 55 years By: Justin Feil    This is what we missed?    A Princeton-Rider game, a game that if you believe what you read, we’ve been waiting 55 years to see. Maybe people had the wrong date and they’re still waiting.    It was pretty obvious that the Princeton student body wasn’t aware of any…

  • Special event at Hun raises money for fund

       Students at The Hun School of Princeton recently decided they wanted to help families touched by the Sept. 11 terror attack.    Senior Ashley Hobgood of Hopewell and Megan Stinson, a junior from Princeton, organized "To Be Continued, A Race for Education," held Nov. 10.    The event raised more than $2,300 to go toward the school’s…

  • Felled trees to cost park’s neighbor $25,000

    17 old-growth trees in the Woodfield Reservation were cut down. By: David Campbell    A Drakes Corner Road resident will pay Princeton Township $25,000 for felling with a chain saw 17 old-growth trees in the Woodfield Reservation.    A legal settlement was reached in early November between George Vaughn of Drakes Corner Road and the township, said…

  • Despite offensive woes, MHS boys soccer had a winning mark

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    Going into the recently completed season, everyone knew the big question mark for the Monroe Township High School boys’ varsity soccer team would be the offense, and the prognosticators were right. An inconsistent attack and problems finishing kept the Falcons from dominating the Greater Middlesex Conference’s Blue Division, and from being…

  • School expansion stirs controversy

    School board vice president Bruce Ettman called a plan proposed by Bob Laverty to build a new southern elementary school ‘deceitful’ and ‘elitist.’ By: Chris Karmiol    Board members and residents voiced heated opinions surrounding potential solutions to school overcrowding at Monday’s East Windsor Regional school board meeting at the Grace N. Rogers School.    To accommodate…