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  • Report: More students means more buildings

    A report prepared for the school district by a demography firm showed the district’s enrollment will exceed its capacity in the next five years. By: Michael Arges East Windsor Regional school board members want more information and more options following Monday’s presentation of a draft demographer’s report for the district. The report projected an almost…

  • Fox sponsors ‘Close the Gap’ campaign

    Nationwide effort to raise the national homeownership rate for Hispanic-American families    Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors, the nation’s sixth largest real estate services company and an independently owned and operated member of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc., recently sponsored a successful "Close the Gap" Campaign, a new nationwide effort to raise the national homeownership rate…

  • Principal picked for Community Park School

    A school principal in Holmdel will assume post on Aug. 15. By: Jeff Milgram    A reading specialist who taught in the New York City school system will become the new principal of Community Park School.    The Princeton Regional Board of Education on Tuesday approved the hiring of Sharon Goldman of Monroe, principal of the Indian…

  • Merged municipality could end ‘antics’

    GUEST OPINION by Gene Sarafin: A former school board member and borough council candidate thinks a merged town could save money for Hightstown and East Windsor.    The economics for a pilot program merger of East Windsor and Hightstown are astounding.    For the year 2001, the combined revenue raised by local taxes is $6.3 million. Dividing…

  • Anderson lifts Legion team to first win

    Beats Immaculata for third straight time in summer By: Rudy Brandl    John Anderson continued his mastery of Immaculata on the American Legion baseball circuit with another masterful performance that highlighted the second week of summer action.    Anderson fired a complete game four-hitter to lift the Somerville-Manville Legion team to its first victory of the season.…

  • Herald staffer is new social editor

    Julie Gartland of Upper Freehold is replacing Lee Anne Moslowski, who departed the Herald in order to pursue a teaching career. By: Ken Weingartner    Beginning this week, Julie Gartland has taken over the duties of editor for the Lifestyle and social pages of the Windsor-Hights Herald.    Ms. Gartland takes over the position from longtime Herald…

  • West Windsor chooses smaller firehouse

    In a split vote the council agrees with an administration recommendation. By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — After lengthy deliberation, the Township Council decided by a 3-2 vote Thursday night to go along with the administration’s recommendation for a smaller design for the Princeton Junction firehouse.    The council plans to approve an emergency appropriation of…

  • Nancy Lee Gerber

       CRANBURY — Nancy Lee Gerber, 74, of Cranbury, passed away on Sunday at the Cranbury Nursing Home.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she resided in Cranbury since 1983. She formerly lived in Staten Island, N.Y.    She retired from the Princeton Medical Center as an administrator in 1992.    Wife of the late Julius Gerber, she is survived…

  • Area soprano to spend a night at the opera

    By: Casha Caponegro    MONROE — Marisa Galvany, a mezzo-soprano with The New York Grand Opera and resident of Monroe for the last three years, considers great opera to be an exhilarating and uplifting experience to witness.    "There’s nothing like the thrill of the sound of the human voice in person, not enhanced by a microphone,"…