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  • Main Princeton Post Office reopens

    Mail delivery back to 100 percent from Roszel Road facility . By: Jeff Milgram    The main Princeton Post Office in West Windsor reopened Monday morning after an area that tested positive for anthrax was cleaned. But a bank branch on Nassau Street remained closed Monday, pending the results of environmental testing.    All mail distribution was…

  • Joseph DiGaetano

       Joseph R. DiGaetano, 82, died Friday, Nov. 2, at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in Philadelphia, he lived in Lawrenceville more than 40 years.    He was an Army veteran of World War II and served in the 119th Medical Battalion.    He was a retired sales and serviceman with R.S. McCracken & Sons…

  • HHS teams advance to sectional semifinals

    Soccer, boys field hockey teams move into state semifinals By:Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough High boys’ soccer and field hockey teams joined their girls’ soccer schoolmates in next week’s state sectional semifinal round with victories Friday.    Top-seeded Hillsborough dismantled No. 8 West Windsor Plainsboro South by a 4-1 margin in the Central Jersey Group 4 boys’…

  • Seeing the world through art

    Mary Ellen Brennan’s love of art was spawned at an early age. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — When Mary Ellen Brennan was quite young, she met a woman artist who helped her paint the world as she sees it.    "As a child, I loved to look at things. I started painting when I was about…

  • More get sick at high school

    Twenty-two students were sent home complaining of headaches and dizziness By: Nick D’Amore    MONROE — Since Monroe Township High School reopened Monday, more students and staff members have fallen ill for unknown reasons.    Board of Education President Joe Homoki said Thursday that about a dozen students and one staff member complained of headaches, dizziness and…

  • Hun soccer set for St. Benedict’s

    Top team in country will be tough foe Bob Nuse        Nobody beats St. Benedict’s.    Well, at least in the last four years nobody beats St. Benedict’s on the boys’ soccer field. The Gray Bees have gone 117 games without a loss since the second game of the 1997 season. They’re generally considered the No.…

  • LOCAL ELECTION WINNERS

    Results from area races By: * denotes incumbent BURLINGTON COUNTY GOVERNOR James E. McGreevey (Democrat) — Bret Schundler (Republican) — Constantino Rozzo (Independent) — Bill Schluter (Socialist Party USA) — Mark Edgerton (Libertarian) — Michael W. Koontz (N.J. Conservative Party) — Kari Sachs (Socialist Workers Party) — Jerry L. Coleman (Green Party) — George Watson…

  • Tigers hope to roar past Penn

    PU looking to upset Ivy co-leader By: Justin Feil        The Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania football teams met in the preseason for a scrimmage that ended prematurely due to a thunderstorm. Since then, it’s been the Tigers that flashed briefly like lightning and the Quakers that have roared like thunder.    Princeton is 1-5…

  • Board grounds trip to Disney

    By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — The Monroe Township High School band and chorus are expected to go to Williamsburg, Va., instead of Disney World in Florida next spring.    The field trip to Florida was postponed by a unanimous vote of the Board of Education last week as a precautionary measure during a time when many…