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  • SPORTS TAKES

    By:Staff PAL sets softball, baseball sign-ups    East Windsor PAL will be holding baseball and softball sign-ups for the 2001 season from 9 a.m. to noon on Jan. 27 at the Airport Road Complex.    PAL is open to boys and girls, with divisions covering individuals from 5 to 16 years of age.    For more information, call…

  • Plainsboro plans to help schools battle smoking

    School policy against tobacco use may be enforcable in municipal court By: David M. Campbell    PLAINSBORO — The Township Committee plans to introduce an ordinance empowering the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District to enforce its no-smoking policy in Township Municipal Court.    The committee met Wednesday night with Superintendent of Schools John Fitzsimons; Michael Zapicchi, principal…

  • Chabad teen event set for tonight

    By:Michael Arges        EAST WINDSOR — The Chabad of the Windsors, an outreach program focusing on non-observant Jews, is planning a special event for local teens tonight.    The event is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m., offering an informal Sabbath get-together for teens aged 14 to 17.    "We’ll play games with them, we’ll sing, we’ll…

  • Discounts available only to Packet Publications subscribers

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  • Cranbury native hangs up his badge

    Retires after 23-year stint with U.S. Marshals Service By: Brian Shappell    Peter G. Nagurny’s most important search Wednesday was to find something interesting to do on the Gulf of Mexico’s coast.    That is because he has just retired from the U.S. Marshals Service after 23 years of chasing the "bad guys" around the United States,…

  • Toll to challenge board decision — again

    Developer will contest some of the 196 conditions placed by West Windsor planners By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR — Toll Brothers says it will challenge some of the conditions laid down by the Township Planning Board when, constrained by court order, the board granted final approval to the first phase of the Estates at…

  • Still a thrill

    On just his reputation, B.B. King earned a standing ovation at the Trenton War Memorial during a sold-out concert Jan. 18. The blues legend will be playing at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank Feb. 3 and 4. By: Daniel Shearer At 75 years old, blues legend B.B. King and his trademark guitar named…

  • Cranbury sets its goals for coming year

    By: Nick D’Amore    The Township Committee reviewed and revised its list of priorities for the new year, combining some goals and focusing more on others.    The town’s goals this year include improving circulation in the town and school, coming up with ideas for uses of the Barclay and Wright property acquisitions and discussions about a…

  • Donald Ducko

    By:Staff    DELANCO — Donald M. Ducko, 71, died Jan. 17 at Rancocas Hospital, Willingboro.    Born in Hamilton, he lived in Delanco for 20 years.    He retired from Princeton University.    He was an Army veteran of the Korean War serving as a first lieutenant.    Son of the late Ladislaus and Alice Sullivan Ducko, he is survived…