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  • Fire uproots apartment residents

    Four units destroyed and 13 families displaced in West Windsor By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — Thirteen families were displaced Monday after an early-morning fire gutted four apartment units and resulted in smoke and water damage to 16 others at the Avalon Watch apartment complex on Clarksville Road.    A three-story, 20-unit apartment building, the first…

  • Parents to ride school buses to ease opening day fears

    Project underway in West Windsor-Plainsboro School District By: Gwen Runkle    Parents leery of sending their elementary school students off alone on the first day of school in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District now have the opportunity to ride along.    Mary Alden, co-president of the J.V.B. Wicoff School Parent Teacher Association, has worked over the…

  • Mercer Cup gives PU teams early look

    Tiger men’s, women’s soccer teams play Wednesday in preseason tourney By: Justin Feil    Jim Barlow and Julie Shackford look forward to the Isles’ Mercer County Cup each year as an early test for their Princeton University soccer teams.    "Obviously we take it seriously," said Barlow, whose Tiger men’s squad had won each of the previous…

  • Letters to the Editor, Aug. 28

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Aug. 28 By: Garage plan is financially sound To the editor:    Allow me to correct some of the claims from Alan Hegedus in your letters column of Aug. 24.    First, his numbers are wrong. The development project on the borough-owned parking lots on either side of Spring Street will provide a…

  • OBITUARIES, Aug. 28, 2001

    Sally McFarlane, George B. Shapiro, Mary Solotorovsky, Antonio S. Manganelli, John G. White. Sally McFarlane Public school activist    Sally McFarlane of Princeton died Saturday at The Medical Center at Princeton. She was 64.    Born in Bedford, Ohio, she moved to Princeton in 1966.    She was long involved in education issues and she and her husband…

  • Arts council offers new classes for kids and adults

       In response to popular demand, The Arts Council of Princeton has added new art classes for both adults and children to its fall semester schedule.    "Fresco Painting" will teach adult students the basics of executing a fresco painting (painting on wet lime plaster). The class will include surface preparation, and the mixing and tinting of…

  • Italian team gets taste of Princeton

    Locals host Babe Ruth 15s squad By: Justin Feil    Ellie Panelli’s had a typical reaction when told that there would be an entry from Italy in the Babe Ruth World Series.    "When you hear an Italian team," said the Princeton resident, "you think of soccer, not baseball. But they’ve done pretty well. This (visit) doesn’t…

  • Central Jersey Walk to support autism research

       The National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR), a nonprofit organization headquartered in Princeton, has scheduled its second annual Central New Jersey "Walk F.A.R. for NAAR."    The event will help to raise funds to support biomedical research relating to the treatments, causes and cure for autism.    The four-mile walk will be held on Sunday, Sept. 30,…

  • Kids wearing bike helmets offered ice cream reward

       The Princeton Borough Police Department is offering children a sweet reminder to wear a helmet while bicycling.    The year-old program partners the borough police with Thomas Sweet Ice Cream and Chocolate.    "We hope it will encourage children to wear their helmets," said Capt. Anthony Federico.    Until the end of September, when police officers on patrol…