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  • SPORTS TAKES

    By: 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. 20 and 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…

  • Lack of depth pinning losses on Peddie wrestling team

    By:Neil Hay    You don’t have to hit Keith Holcombe over the head with a hammer for him to admit that the Peddie School wrestling team is not built to win in dual meets.    Tournaments? Yes. Individual championships? Yes. Dual meets? No.    The Falcons have a number of talented wrestlers who can compete at this level.…

  • Russo hoping his wrestlers canfollow Ewing’s path to success

    By:Neil Hay        Just Mike Russo’s luck that, after several lean years, Ewing wrestling is on the way back.    That is what Russo’s Hightstown wrestling team discovered Saturday morning when the Blue Devils visited the Rams. In a match that saw eleven weight classes decided by fall, Ewing outpointed the Rams by a 55-24 final.…

  • Deer harvesting decision should be revisited often

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 12 By: Packet Editorial    Supporters of Princeton Township’s aggressive deer-management plan — hiring sharpshooters to lure deer to baited sites and kill them with high-powered rifles — will probably take heart from the report this week that a pilot contraception program to curb the deer population in Morris County turned out to…

  • AROUND CRANBURY: A heart-warming story about teens.

    By: Lorraine Sedor    David Nissen, chairman of the township Environmental Commission, has announced an opening on its board. The Commission, which meets on the second Monday of the month, reviews plans that come before the township’s zoning and planning boards for possible environmental concerns. Anyone with an interest in environmental issues who would like to…

  • Cranbury School makes grade with state auditors

    CRANBURY — Cranbury School officials are optimistic that the school will receive re-certification, after state monitors recently inspected the school, as is required every seven years. By: Brian Shappell    Students at the Cranbury School are used to taking tests. But, the Cranbury School recently passed a test of its own.    As a result, the school…

  • Schools may add 13 new teachers

    Growing K-5 enrollments squeezing district budget By:Michael Arges        "Holy Mackerel!" was board President Sheri Grunwerg’s response to the K-5 staffing recommendations from East Windsor Regional School Distict’s administration at Monday’s meeting.    Ms. Grunwerg’s exclamation followed a recommendation to add 13 teachers and one administrator in the district’s elementary schools for the school year 2001-2002…

  • Candida Lepree

       Candida Lepree, 89, died Sunday at her home in Monroe.    She was born in Elizabeth and lived there. She later resided in Cranford for 15 years, and then in Jamesburg for five years before moving to Monroe eight years ago.    She graduated from Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey) in 1930.    She…

  • Effort to halt deer hunt rejected

    State Fish and Game Council rejects motion to halt all deer culling efforts. By: David Weinstein    A long-shot attempt to stop Princeton Township from employing sharpshooters who cull deer herds fell short Tuesday when the state Fish and Game Council denied a motion to halt all community-based deer-management plans.    The motion filed by Neilsen Lewis,…