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  • Women’s risk of heart disease runs higher than people think

    HEALTH MATTERS By: Dr. Banu Mahalingam    Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in women, outnumbering deaths from all other causes combined.    Annually, 500,000 women die from cardiac-related health problems, including heart attack, stroke, hypertension and heart failure. As the American population ages, more women than men die of cardiovascular disease.    Although virtually…

  • ‘Spoon’ is man of the hour at PU

    Longtime Tigers supporter enjoying aftermath of first Senior Met Open win By: Justin Feil    The phone hasn’t stopped ringing and Princeton University employees haven’t stopped coming by to offer Ferman Witherspoon congratulations on winning the Metropolitan Senior Open on Sunday.    "A lot of them must have followed it," said Witherspoon, a Trenton resident that has…

  • Borough hall debate not political

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    The turnout at the last council’s meeting sounded more like common sense rather than political. Mr. Vanderbeck, how many people who spoke at the meeting were running for council? Not I for one, and yet you pointed out Mr. Szewczyk’s speech was all political. Doesn’t that make sense?…

  • Ordinance needed to keep option open

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    The following letter to the Hightstown Borough Council and Mayor Amy Aughenbaugh was read aloud at the council’s Aug. 6 meeting:    Family business does not allow me to be at tonight’s council meeting, so I have asked Councilwoman Laudenberger to convey my opinion on this very important issue.…

  • Turner boots way into HHS hall of fame

    Sam Turner, a member of the Hightstown High School Class of ’61, made his name at the school as a member of the boys soccer team’s three consecutive state championships. By: Neil Hay    Boys soccer, that bountiful treasure chest of great teams, players, coaches, and championships, has produced another member for the Hightstown High School…

  • Ella Klein

       HILLSBOROUGH — Ella Klein died Aug. 12 at Foothill Acres Nursing Home, Hillsborough. She was 96.    Born in Brooklyn, NY, she had lived in Newark, Union and Maplewood before moving to Hillsborough in 1977.    Mrs. Klein worked as an inspector for Utility Razor Co. in Cranford and for Vulcan Razorblade Company in Maplewood for many…

  • Longtime resident and farmer was pioneer

    OBITUARY: Edward "Bus" W. Simonson II, 86 By: Casha Caponegro    Cranbury lost a longtime farmer and friend Sunday.    Graveside services were held Wednesday morning at Brainerd Cemetery for Edward "Bus" W. Simonson II, 86, a local farmer who died at the Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Etra, he was a longtime resident of Cranbury.…

  • Affordable housing goal in sight

    Parkside project will place 16 affordable housing units in five buildings near Maplewood Avenue. By: Amanda Bok    CRANBURY — The Parkside affordable housing project, to be located on Bennet Place, may open by May 2002 with rent that is slightly higher than levels recommended by the state Department of Community Affairs.    The project will place…

  • Democrats vow to fight Bush on stem-cell research rules

    Barbara Johnson of Princeton joins Rep. Rush Holt at news conference. By: Jeff Milgram    TRENTON — With Barbara Johnson of Princeton and Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) by his side, Sen. Robert Torricelli told a State House press conference Thursday that Senate Democrats will take the moral high ground in the fight to expand federal funding…