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  • Group petitions to oust board member

    Residents organizing to invoke recently enacted recall law By: Mark Moffa        HIGHTSTOWN – Five Hightstown residents, outraged by an East Windsor School Board member’s derogatory comments about homosexuals, have formed a committee to try to force Janice Mastriano out of her post.    The Committee to Recall Janice Mastriano drafted a letter to Ms. Mastriano…

  • May McDermott

       May E. McDermott, 95, of Rossmoor, died Dec. 9 at her home.    Born in New York City, Ms. McDermott was a resident of Lyndhurst before moving to Rossmoor in 1975.    She is survived by six cousins, John Longley of Monroe, William Titus of Watchung, Thelma McLean of Toronto, Gardner Attlee of Spring Lake, Patricia Schafstein…

  • PHS boys win with new attitude

    Little Tigers tired of moral victories By: Ben Stentz    Enough was enough already for Princeton High boys’ basketball coach Gene Mosley. After only one game, a four-point loss at Nottingham, the Little Tigers coach was hearing talk of moral victories.    "Moral victories are in the past around here," Mosley said after his team earned a…

  • Funny Pictures

    Each picture is worth a thousand laughs. By:Princeton Packet

  • Don’t be hasty in judging board member

    By:Gary Grubb To the editor:    Unfortunately, I have been witness to Kangaroo courts in session and as a result of the judgements handed down by these alledged "councils of infinite wisdon," have seen lives altered forever.    Isn’t it interesting how far we have slid down the hole of political correctness, where criticism of ideas is…

  • Blawenburg garage conversion OK’d

    Route 601 and 518 intersection will get offices and apartments By: Helen Pettigrew    MONTGOMERY — The Zoning Board on Tuesday approved, with conditions, two variances to convert a two-story garage in Blawenburg, on the northeast side of the junction of Routes 601 and 518, into offices and apartment space.    The plan from Railsedge Enterprises calls…

  • Scouts, board member don’t belong in schools

    By:R. Gargiullo To the editor:    I have been following the uproar over the outra­ geous statements made by Ms. Mastriano regarding homosexuals and the Boy Scouts. I have not felt the need to offer my opinions on the matter since there was sufficient backlash against her ignorant, biased comments and I commend your editorial calling…

  • Wong, Stibol, Moreno, Freeman place fourth in tournament

    Wong, Stibol, Moreno, Freeman place fourth for HHS in wrestling tournament By:Neil Hay        They took their lumps Saturday, the young Hightstown High School wrestlers did, at the Pine Barrens Tournament at Shawnee High in Medford. Lumps that could pay benefits later in the season.    Pine Barrens is a loaded tourney, with three of the…

  • Church services on Christmas Eve

    By: Brian Shappell    Cranbury’s churches will have their plates full for this year’s Christmas Eve services.    "It will be a very busy day, because it is Christmas Eve and it is a Sunday," said the Rev. Louis Mitchell of the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury.    "I’m planning on taking a nap in the afternoon," he…