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  • A game to save lives

    East Windsor resident Sharon Falitz organized a charity softball game to honor her late sister and raise money to fight inflammatory breast cancer. By: Michael Arges    EAST WINDSOR — Even with no lump in her breast, a woman can still have breast cancer.    Sharon Falitz urgently heldped get that message out Tuesday night with a…

  • Borough’s mixed-income units bid welcome to first residents

    One family has moved into one of the MacLean Street townhouses and a family closed on another unit this week. By: Jennifer Potash    The first residents of Princeton Commons, a borough housing project to provide a mix of affordable and market-rate housing on Shirley Court and MacLean Street, recently moved into the new townhouses.    A…

  • Woods Road to get interim principal

    An interim principal for the Woods Road School will be in place by the start of the school year, according to Hillsborough Superintendent of Schools Robert Gulick. By:Regina Tan    Dr. Gulick said parents of the school’s students will be notified of the arrangements regarding the interim principal by mail this weekend.    Although the selection committee…

  • Steven Perlack Sr.

       MANVILLE — Steven Perlack Sr. died Wednesday, Aug. 15, at home.    He was born in Mahoney Plane, PA and lived in Frackville, PA before moving to Manville 52 years ago.    Mr. Perlack was employed by American Cyanamid in Bound Brook for 38 years, retiring in 1985.    He served in World War II as an airplane…

  • Cable increase hard on viewers

    To the editor    Move over, Bob Gulick. Step aside, Joe Tricarico.    The big gun in tax or fee increases has hit Hillsborough.    Bob Wewers, Regional Manager for RCN, has pulled into town and he is not wearing Colt 44s slung low. He is bringing his 105 mm howitzer instead.    Wewers authored a flyer about the…

  • Veterans Memorial model on display

    Plans move forward on placing monument on Clarksburg School grounds. By: Scott Morgan    MILLSTONE — For the moment, it sits barely 3 inches tall. A tiny blue triangle on a tabletop display. The grandness is in the idea.    Last week, township resident Jack McLaughlin and Hamilton sculptor Blaise Batko presented the Township Committee with a…

  • OBITUARIES, Aug. 24, 2001

    William D. Rugg, Anna H. Adler, Gloria Maxwell, Donnah H. Studholme, Benjamin Rapp, William D. Rugg Retired from Opinion Research    HANOVER, N.H. — William Donald Rugg died Aug. 17 of Parkinson’s disease. He was 85.    Born in Rochester, N.Y., he a longtime Princeton resident before moving to East Corinth, Vt. and in 1991 to Kendall…

  • Township to contribute toward greenbelt

    The money, $19,500, will come from the open space tax. By: John Tredrea    A $19,500 contribution toward the purchase of an 11-acre segment of an envisioned greenbelt around Hopewell Borough has been approved by the Hopewell Township Committee.    The township contribution will be 10 percent of the purchase price of the open space conservation easement.…

  • Fear Factor

    Adventurous climbers test their skills at Ralph Stover State Park, two miles north of Point Pleasant, Pa. By: Jodi Thompson Yardley resident Aaron Spear grapples with a tricky crag. Photo by Brian Collier    The sign posted at the trail’s entrance warns of the danger of injury and death. Only a short piece of fence —…