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  • Committee eyes future of Wright, West tracts

       The Township Committee is considering designating about 12 acres of the Wright and West properties for roads to accommodate a future library, community center or possible school expansion. By: Nick D’Amore    The Township Committee is considering designating about 12 acres of the Wright and West properties for roads to accommodate a future library, community center…

  • PHS paper goes bilingual

    A Spanish-language column will appear monthly in The Tower, Princeton High School’s award-winning student newspaper. By: Carly Rothman    The Tower, Princeton High School’s award-winning student newspaper, is breaking new ground in student journalism with the installment of a Spanish-language column.    The Spanish-language column will appear monthly in the opinions section of The Tower, and will…

  • Staging an African folktale

    Students from Constable School performed the folk tale ‘The Elephant Child’ Thursday after rehearsing it since January. By: Amanda Bok    In the jungle, the mighty jungle, an elephant performs tonight.    First he wanders the banks of the "great, gray-green greasy Limpopo River" with insatiable curiosity. He is looking for a crocodile.    Then he finds the…

  • Princeton lawyer to be honored by chamber

    Thomas Jamieson will be named the Citizen of the Year by the Greater Mercer County Chamber of Commerce. By: Kristin Roper    The Greater Mercer County Chamber of Commerce has chosen Princeton Township resident Thomas Jamieson, partner-in-charge at the Princeton law office of Pepper Hamilton as Citizen of the Year.    According to the chamber, the award…

  • U.S. Census shows local Latino boom

    The community is working to meet the needs of its Latino population, which has grown dramatically during the past decade. By: Mark Moffa    HIGHTSTOWN — Recently released U.S. Census numbers for 2000 show that although the borough’s population grew by less than 2 percent over the past 10 years, Hightstown’s Hispanic or Latino population has…

  • OBITUARIES

    Joan McMahon, 64    MANVILLE – Joan McMahon died March 14 at home. She was 64.    Born in Monongahela, Pa., she was a resident of Manville.    Mrs. McMahon was employed as a laboratory technician in Quality Assurance at Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical in Raritan for 30 years.    She was a communicant of Christ the King R.C. Church…

  • Pennington expected to hold line on taxes

    The budget is scheduled for a public hearing and adoption vote by Borough Council on April 30. By: John Tredrea    Pennington Borough’s tax rate would stay the same as last year’s, 53 cents per $100 of assessed property value, under a proposed 2001 budget introduced by the borough council Monday night.    The budget is scheduled…

  • Tracking the role of women throughout American history

    By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — A member of the audience became part of Esther K. Gelbard’s American Women in History presentation at the Monroe Township Senior Center Tuesday.    Ms. Gelbard, a Concordia resident, as part of her Women’s History month talk, introduced her audience to a variety of women who had made contributions or gained some…

  • League gets ready for school election

    By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Six candidates for the Board of Education will share the platform 7:30 p.m. April 2 when the League of Women Voters of Monroe Township hosts a candidates’ night in the township high school’s lecture hall.    The campaign event was announced Monday at the league’s monthly meeting at the township hall.…