Category: archives
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Peddie girls’ basketball team’s win streak ends at 13
By:Neil Hay The number thirteen showed just how unlucky it could be last Saturday. Riding the crest of a 13-game unbeaten streak, the Peddie girls’ basketball team proved they are indeed mortal when they lost 51-42 to St. John Vianney. The game, the first of an all-girl tripleheader played at the Asbury Park Convention Center,…
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Master Plan maps out senior communities
The newly approved area for PRC construction includes land for 320 units off Route 33 and 250 units on a Cranbury Station Road site By: Al Wicklund MONROE The Monroe Township Master Plan, modified by the Planning Board last week, will allow for two more planned retirement communities with a total of 570 additional…
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Princeton school state aid rises; WW-P’s declines
Montgomery’s state aid figures remain the same as last year. By: Jeff Milgram The Princeton Regional School District will get an increase of 12.7 percent in state aid for the next school year while the Montgomery district will receive the same amount as this year and West Windsor-Plainsboro will get 2 percent less. This marks…
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Seniors community gets final nod
Final approval given to last two phases of Villages at Bear Creek in West Windsor By: David M. Campbell WEST WINDSOR The Township Planning Board approved the final two phases of the Villages at Bear Creek seniors community Wednesday night, marking the near conclusion of a project begun with preliminary approval in 1996. The…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
