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  • Les Paul: At work is the place to be

    Guitar legend and longtime New Jersey resident Les Paul celebrated his 86th birthday with a jam session this month at the Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan. By: Ken Weingartner    Resting in a hospital bed 21 years ago after having undergone quintuple bypass heart surgery, Les Paul hoped he might squeeze another decade out of life.…

  • Princeton school superintendent gets new contract, raiseNew five-year contract gives Claire Sheff Kohn a $6,000 raise in first year

    They like her. They really, really like her. And that is why the Princeton Regional Board of Education tore up its contract with Superintendent Claire Sheff Kohn on Tuesday and wrote a new, five-year contract giving her a $6,000-a-year pay raise in the first year. By: Jeff Milgram They like her. They really, really like…

  • FORUM: Football Coach

    Was Monroe correct not to renew the contract of varsity football coach Milt Theodosotos? By: Was Monroe correct not to renew the contract of varsity football coach Milt Theodosotos?

  • Princeton Packet Boys’ Tennis Player of the Year

    Pu maintained Pirates’ tennis tradition By: Bob Nuse    More than anything else, Anthony Pu was glad he could maintain the tradition of excellence at the top of the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South tennis team. Not just on the court, but off of it as well.    A senior, Pu did what was expected of him on…

  • Tax reform takes courage, not a convention

    EDITORIAL: Calling a state constitutional convention on property taxes could open a Pandora’s box to other non-relevant issues.    Anyone who pays property taxes in New Jersey knows how inequitably the burden of this regressive form of taxation falls on our state’s residents.    Senior citizens and others on fixed incomes pay a disproportionately large share of…

  • Tuesday is primary election day

       For area towns, the only real contest in Tuesday’s primary election will be at the top of the Republican ballot where former Congressman Bob Franks of Union County and Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler battle for the GOP nomination for governor. By:Al Wicklund    For area towns, the only real contest in Tuesday’s primary election will…

  • Legion team running short on arms

    Molloy, Gregson lead way to extra inning win By: Rudy Brandl    The Hillsborough American Legion baseball team ran short on arms last week but still managed to squeeze out one victory in three games.    Saturday’s rainout vs. North Plainfield won’t help Hillsborough’s depleted pitching staff. Five games have already been rescheduled due to rain and…

  • Chabad to begin new Hebrew school

    A new ‘hands on’ approach to teaching traditional lessons of the Jewish culture and religion will be used in the new program. By: Michael Arges    EAST WINDSOR — The Jewish faith used to be passed on with the chicken soup in traditional Jewish homes, noted Rabbi Sholom Leverton, Chabad of the Windsors director.    At the…

  • OBITUARIES, June 22, 2001

    Dennis E. Jeffries, Nancy L. Gerber, Blanche Zagoria. Dennis E. Jeffries Formerly of Princeton    PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Dennis Edward Jeffries died June 8. He was 54.    A former resident of Princeton, he was a 1965 graduate of The Lawrenceville School.    He graduated from Bucknell University in 1969 and also was a graduate of the University…