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  • Cranbury board needs candidates to fill vacant seat

       The Board of Education has set a Monday deadline for residents interested in filling a one-year vacancy and could fill the seat by Tuesday. By:Brian Shappell    The Board of Education has set a Monday deadline for residents interested in filling a one-year vacancy and could fill the seat by Tuesday.    School board Secretary Walt Pudelko…

  • Affordable senior housing focus of talks on master plan

    The Princeton Regional Planning Board is preparing to draft a new master plan. By: Jennifer Potash    Making Princeton an affordable place for citizens to spend their twilight years was a resounding theme Thursday night at a Princeton Regional Planning Board meeting to discuss the Community Master Plan.    A community can be judged on how well…

  • The future is in good hands

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    We hear so many negative things about teens today. It makes one wonder what the world is coming to. What will our futures be like in the hands of the youth of America? Well, I’m here to tell you that I have had the most enlightening 10-day experience…

  • The meters, they are a changin’

    Without fanfare, new parking meter rates in Princeton Borough took effect this week. By: Jennifer Potash    Without fanfare, the new parking meter rates in the central business district took effect this week.    Rate increases were part of a comprehensive traffic and road ordinance, which covers everything from the creation of a Traffic and Transportation Committee…

  • Boater jailed for 1996 death of Ian Kuehns

       MONROE — An Englishtown man was given three years in jail Monday for reckless manslaughter and operating a boat while intoxicated in a boating collision that took the life of Ian Kuehns of Monroe four years ago. By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — An Englishtown man was given three years in jail Monday for reckless manslaughter and…

  • High-tech links slated for distance learning

    Montgomery students may soon be able to take classes at universities and other school districts without leaving their buildings. By: Helen Pettigrew    MONTGOMERY — Township students may soon be able to take classes at universities and at schools in other districts by using videoconferencing equipment and other distance-learning technologies.    These are among the goals envisioned…

  • Rams set mark in distance medley relay

    BOYS TRACK & FIELD: The new record of 10:55.3 broke a 24-year-old record at the Holmdel Relays last weekend. By: Kyle Moylan    Having two former winners (Chris Repka and Jeremy Klapper) of the Mercer County Cross Country championships on its roster, the Hightstown High School track team figured to be able to put together a…

  • East Windsor eyes land purchases

    The two parcels of land the Township Council is interested in total 207 acres and are both located near Conover Road. By: Michael Arges    EAST WINDSOR — The Township Council is investigating the purchase of two open-space parcels near Conover Road, according to a discussion at Tuesday’s council meeting.    Council members decided to begin planning…

  • STATE OF THE ARTS: Bridging the gap between third and fourth grade

    By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — There’s on overlap in maturity and talents between individual third- and fourth-graders, but the move from third to fourth grade is the crossing of a boundary, Brookside School art teacher Karen Verderami said earlier this week.    "There’s a shift of emphasis from participation in a particular discipline to mastery of it,"…