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  • Computer club gets the skinny on accurate Web sites

    By:Al Wicklund    MONROE — The growth of inaccurate health information on the Internet led the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey to become involved in a new Web site, “HealthyNJ,” Judy Cohn told more than 70 members of the Rossmoor Computer Club.    Ms. Cohn, assistant university librarian and director of the UMDNJ’s George…

  • Hightstown deserves say on bypass, too

    Letter to the editor To the editor:    As reported in The Times, "E. Windsor input on bypass sought" Feb. 20, the state Department of Transportation is getting ready to do its one-year review of the Route 133 Bypass, also known as the Hightstown Bypass.    What disturbs me about this article is the total disregard for…

  • Jamesburg students mourn death of veteran teacher

    JAMESBURG – One of Jamesburg’s most beloved teachers, Carol Ann Ciocan Offenburger, 53, died early Tuesday morning at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, after suffering a heart attack. By:Matthew Armstrong    JAMESBURG — Her lesson plan book and yesterday’s tests still sat on her desk Tuesday morning before the doors to the school opened…

  • Borough Hall keeps the faith

    Council drops effort to bar religious groups from meeting in the municipal building. By: Jennifer Potash    Religious groups located in Princeton Borough, as well as any other borough-based groups, will be able to use the Borough Hall for meetings.    After expressing reservations earlier this year about prayer services and religious ceremonies in the building, the…

  • Gold’s Gym/Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Davison carries PHS into postseason By: Bob Nuse    The Bobby Davison that has helped the Princeton High boys’ basketball team win eight of nine games prior to Thursday night’s Central Jersey Group III tournament game against Nottingham is a different player than the Bobby Davison who played for the Little Tigers earlier in the season.…

  • Federal agents shoot deer, and for free

    Hunterdon County community contracts with U.S. Department of Agriculture. By: David Weinstein    Federal agents from the U.S. Department of Agriculture who are trained as marksmen and wildlife biologists have killed six deer since Monday as part of a lethal deer-management plan, in Delaware Township, Hunterdon County.    The rural township, which contains the state’s last remaining…

  • Poetic Minds

    Community Park Elementary School poetry… 5th Grade Brought to you by the NiE Program By: Daniel Shapiro – 5th Grade Teacher: Ms. Schoenstadt Community Park Elementary School Night So dark, so silent, so peaceful. The occasional murmur of a bug breaking the silence. A light piece of crescent moon set gleaming in the sky. Sometimes…

  • Anti-sprawl activist spreads wide swath

    George Hawkins seems to be everywhere these days in his fight against suburban sprawl. By: David M. Campbell    If you don’t know George Hawkins by sight, chances are you haven’t been to a town meeting lately.    Mr. Hawkins, executive director of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, seems to be everywhere these days, advocating on behalf…

  • Officials detail impact of failed referendum

    Increased class sizes, trailers as classrooms and eliminated programs will be the result if the Princeton district’s $78 million referendum questions are defeated, according to school officials. By: Jeff Milgram    More trailers, fewer programs and only half-day kindergarten classes — that’s the future for the Princeton Regional School District if voters reject the $78 million…