Category: archives
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Brookside opens with new attitude
Both Barclay Brook and Brookside greeted increased enrollments Wednesday as schools went back into session for the new year. By: Al Wicklund MONROE Barclay Brook School used its brand-new addition for the first time Wednesday, and both Barclay Brook and Brookside greeted increased enrollments Wednesday when students arrived for the first day of the…
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Princeton ties Penn in tune up
Shortened scrimmage gives Tiger football team a look at good, bad By: Justin Feil The Princeton University football team was able to accomplish a lot in a short time during Tuesday’s scrimmage against Pennsylvania, but a thunderstorm brought an earlier end than anticipated and left the Tigers with some unfinished business in their final week…
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Cranbury students head back to the classroom
By: Casha Caponegro The doors of the yellow school bus opened and a stream of wide-eyed eager youngsters, loaded down with backpacks and lunch bags, poured out. Parents accompanied children both by car and on foot, wishing them a good day and telling them to behave themselves. Younger children enviously watched their older siblings enter…
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Route 130 bus service on schedule
A bus service for communters running along Route 130 from Cranbury to Hamilton is nearly ready to be launched. By: Michael Arges EAST WINDSOR The pieces all seem to be in place for a Route 130 bus to be in service this fall, East Windsor Mayor Janice Mironov said Wednesday. The Township Council will…
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Area schools on the upswing as year begins
PACKET EDITORIAL, Sept. 7 By: Packet Editorial, Sept. 7 The Julian calendar says the new year begins on the first day of January but for most of us, the real new year arrives the first week in September. Whether we’re 6 or 60, it’s hard to mark the passage of another year in our…
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Issues, not rhetoric, are important
Letter to the editor To the editor: In addressing the letters printed in the Herald from Haim Bar-Akiva, Dianne McCarthy, Bruce Fritzges and Emily McDonald ("Letters to the editor," Aug. 31, 2001, Page 10A) regarding their current lawsuit against the Twin Rivers Homeowners Association, it is important to focus on the issues and not their…
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Towns to fight water hike
Elizabethtown Water Co. has asked the state Board of Public Utilities for an 18 percent across-the-board increase. By: Gwen Runkle and Nick D’Amore Water users in Monroe and Cranbury may be forced to pay more for the water it buys from Elizabethtown Water Company next year. That’s because the Bridgewater-based firm has asked the state…
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Buses should obey speed limit laws
Letter to the editor To the editor: This is in response to an editorial in The Hightstown Gazette, which said, "During a recent East Windsor Board of Education meeting, a board member from East Windsor suggested to the school administration that the school bus drivers should be warned not to speed on Stockton Street." My…
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Sarah Hoffman (Symmes) Buck, 83
Sarah Hoffman (Symmes) Buck, 83, died Thursday, Aug. 23. Born in Cranbury, she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury. A prominent figure in the banking community, beginning her career as a teller at the First National Bank of Cranbury, Ms. Buck moved to Virginia where she became vice president of Citizens’…
