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  • Alberts, Hsueh on West Windsor ticket

    The Township Councilwoman said Monday that she will run for one of the two seats available in May’s election. By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR — Councilwoman Jacqueline Alberts said Monday that she will run for re-election in May, citing controlled growth as her priority.    News of Ms. Alberts’ election bid follows council Vice President…

  • Squash champions handle pressure

    PU’s Beaver wins third title, Yik follows brother with first By: Justin Feil    Few people can understand the sort of pressure that Julia Beaver, the Princeton University senior and two-time defending national women’s squash champion, was under heading into this year’s national collegiate tournament.    Few can understand how it weighed on her, more even than…

  • PU enjoys wait for North Carolina

    Tigers will be 15th seed in New Orleans By: Justin Feil    The anticipation, the nervousness, it grew with each television screen that flashed by, as though the Princeton University men’s basketball team was on the bubble.    First, no Princeton University in the East region of the NCAA tournament. Then, no PU in the West and…

  • West Windsor wrestles with state aid loss

    The loss of monetary aid from the state may necessitate an extra penny on the tax rate this year. By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council recently learned of a $300,000 loss in state aid and must now decide how best to trim an unexpected 2-cent tax increase this year.    The council…

  • The state DOT designs a road to compromise

    PACKET EDITORIAL, March 13 By: Packet Editorial    What’s in a name change?    Maybe nothing. Maybe a lot.    Last week, state Transportation Commissioner James Weinstein studiously avoided using a term that evokes passionate responses from folks in central New Jersey — the "Millstone Bypass" — and started calling the process that will be used to analyze…

  • Drilling leadership into youth volunteers

    Students from Stuart Country Day School and the WW-P high schools took part in an emergency shelter exercise organized by the Red Cross of Central New Jersey. By: Jeff Milgram    It was only a drill.    But for the 30 students from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North and South, Stuart Country Day School and four other…

  • MCP welcomes World Cup regatta

    By: Ken Weingartner    West Windsor is not often mentioned in the same breath with international locales like Munich, Vienna and Seville — until now.    Mercer County Park in West Windsor will host a Zurich Rowing World Cup series event April 27-28, marking the first time a World Cup regatta will be held in the United…

  • Evolution

    Opinion Piece…read what John Cameron of Princeton High School thinks about a current issue! By:John Cameron, Princeton High School student worker I have been hearing the word "Evolution" a lot in the past few months at school. I was required to study evolution and Charles Darwin’s book on evolution in my Biology class. In my…

  • Council acts on school smoking, open space

    The West Windsor governing body introduced a measure enforcing the WW-P school district’s no-smoking policy in municipal court. By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council has unanimously introduced an ordinance to enforce the school district’s no-smoking policies in municipal court.    The introduction Thursday followed a delay by West Windsor and Plainsboro townships…