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  • Poetry: The War

    What are those noises dad? Why did you become a soldier? By:Sarch Grgic The War What are those noises dad? Why did you become a soldier? Why are you fighting dad? Why does everyone here call you sir? What is that red stuff dad? Don’t make me cry. Why, is that blood dad? Don’t die…

  • Mood changes, caused by hormonal fluctuations, helped by therapy

    By: Dr. Naomi Vilko    It all starts with puberty.    Until then, boys need psychiatric intervention at two times the rate of girls. At puberty, this reverses.    From then on, women have rates of depression and anxiety disorders two times that of men. Mood disorders peak in women at times of hormonal flux: in adolescence, the…

  • Volunteers, board members making Twin Rivers better

    By: Linda Romanowski To the editor:     In the spirit of Ms. Neufeld’s letter of Jan. 19, I would like to offer my words of praise to the seven dedicated members of the Twin Rivers board who represent all of Twin Rivers, to the volunteers, to the administrator and staff.    Thank you for taking Twin…

  • Cranbury eyes stable municipal tax

    Increase in revenues, taxables properties, should keep rates in line By: Brian Shappell    The Township Committee is hoping to keep the tax rate stable this year.    Several costly projects — including the purchase of open space and the settlement of a lawsuit dealing with sewer-system use with South Brunswick — are placing pressure on the…

  • Hightstown boys set to make push for playoff spot

    Basketball team needs to win at least two of next four games to make post season By:Kyle Moylan        The Hightstown High School boys’ basketball team didn’t enter action this past team without a margin of error to make the state tournament. The team did, however, know that two teams were poised to take that…

  • Holt cautiously optimistic on Bush school plan

    Congressman is ‘encouraged,’ but opposes voucher proposal. By: Jennifer Potash    Rep. Rush Holt is "encouraged" by Republican President George W. Bush’s education proposal.    "I think there’s a lot in the plan that people will like, that Republicans and Democrats will like," Rep. Holt (D-12) said Wednesday.    "And I think he is presenting it with a…

  • Sophie Reid

    By:Staff    EAST WINDSOR — Sophie J. Sobczyndki Reid, 92 died Sunday in the Applegarth Care Center, Hightstown.    Born in Poland she moved with her family to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and to the United States at age 16, settling in Sturgis, Mich., until she moved to Hightstown in 1993.    Mrs. Reid retired as a department head…

  • Memories of the Challenger

    PERSONAL HISTORIES By: Amanda Bok    JAMESBURG — Rebecca Sanders, an astronomy and physics teacher, remembers Jan. 28, 1986, as a cold day, a day that chilled the body and the heart.    Ms. Sanders, now a Jamesburg councilwoman, had driven to her parents’ house in Shreveport, Texas, to watch the launch of the space shuttle Challenger…

  • ESL programs see big jump in enrollments

    District expects 25 percent increase in ESL and Bilingual enrollments by next fall By: Michael Arges        Continuing increases in the number of ESL/bilingual students could add as much as $113,595 to the East Windsor school district budget, according to recommendations and projections presented by district administrators at Monday’s board meeting.    Between Octobr 2000 and…