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  • Princeton earns right to celebrate

    Tiger men stop Penn for Ivy League men’s basketball title By: Justin Feil    It was almost as the though John Thompson had instructed the Princeton University fans to hold off.    "Wait until it’s really over."    "Don’t take anything for granted."    Just as he had told his Tiger men’s basketball team, the media and the fans…

  • A place for authors to compare notes

    By:Casha Caponegro    MONROE — Many writers lead a solitary existence. Unable to rely on others for assistance, they are often left with only a computer, a dictionary and their own creativity to guide them through their craft.    The Jamesburg Public Library, however, plans to alleviate this isolation through its fifth annual Author’s Day. The program…

  • Purim plays help keep holiday ‘zany’

    By:Amanda Bok    MONROE — Purim is not just another Jewish holiday. It might just be the wackiest.    “The mood is zany, it’s merry,” said Rabbi Benjamin Levy of the Monroe Township Jewish Center.    “It’s the one day out of the year we’re encouraged to pull out all the stops and do the stuff that we…

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  • PU men’s hockey team streaks into ECACs

    Tigers face Cornell in first round By: Bob Nuse    The Princeton University men’s ice hockey team would have liked to have finished the season with a record good enough to have secured home ice for the opening round of the ECAC tournament.    While the Tigers did not manage to do that, they did manage the…

  • Andrew Koschek

       Andrew G. Koschek died Wednesday, March 7, at St. Joseph’s Skilled Nursing Center at Morris Hall.    Arrangements are by Koschek and Porter Funeral Directors, Roebling.

  • Hightstown banks on aid to slash tax rate hike

    The owner of a home assessed at the borough average of $120,000 would pay $173 more in municipal taxes than last year under the proposed 2001 budget. By:Mark Moffa    HIGHTSTOWN — Borough residents could be facing a municipal tax rate increase of 14 cents per $100 of assessed property value if the state does not…

  • Man’s suicide threat forces evacuation

    Six neighbors were evacuated and school buses were rerouted Wednesday when a man, armed and apparently suicidal, barricaded himself in his Holland Road home. By:Michael Arges    EAST WINDSOR — A 35-year-old man, armed and apparently suicidal, was taken into custody without incident Wednesday afternoon from his Holland Lane home, where he had barricaded himself, township…

  • Lozier’s boys show improvement on court

    FRESHMAN BOYS BASKETBALL: Due to a lack of size, the Rams were forced to play a scrappy, hustling brand of basketball this season. By: Neil Hay    With no starting player taller than 6-feet, the Hightstown boys’ freshmen basketball team could always expect to be at a disadvantage when it came to rebounding.    But despite this…