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  • Young and old celebrate holidays

    MONROE — Teen singers joined with senior harmonica players to enliven a holiday party at the Senior Center. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Music, provided by six harmonica players in the 60-plus age category and by a chorus of 13- and 14-year-old voices, enlivened the holiday party at the Monroe Township Senior Center Tuesday afternoon.…

  • Talented young HHS wrestlers hoping to pin down some wins

    By:Kyle Moylan        Hightstown High coach Mike Russo will have a young team again, but that doesn’t mean it will not be a better one.    Hightstown, with four seniors on its roster last season, finished with a record of 2-11-1. This year Hightstown will have only one senior – Dan Stibol, who will wrestle at…

  • Walter J. Soh

    By:Staff    BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP – Walter J. Soh, 91, died Dec. 5 at Virtua-Memorial Hospital, Mount Holly.    Born in Trenton, he lived in Kingston 50 years before moving to the Masonic Home in Burlington five years ago.    He worked in Princeton Nurseries 55 years before retiring.    He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in…

  • Twin Rivers reelects board members

    By: Staff    For the second year in a row, incumbent members of the Twin Rivers Homeowners Association Board of Directors have handily won reelection to the board over a slate of candidates by the Committee for a Better Twin Rivers.    At Thursday night’s annual meeting, vote tallies announced returned Marty Bernstein, Warren Kross and Robert…

  • Column: Nuse Sense

    Let the winter games begin By: Bob Nuse    By the time the end of the fall high school sports season comes around, everyone is generally ready to get inside. As a colleague of ours at another local paper likes to say in early November, ‘BTSI, bring this stuff indoors.’    Well, tonight the winter sports season…

  • School board should adopt policy barring Scouts

    By:Robt Seda-Schreiber To the editor:    This letter is not about the Boy Scouts’ discriminatory practices and, although unfortunately legal, how abhorrent they are. This letter instead is about hatred and intolerance and how we, as a society, must not tolerate it and certainly not support it.    Yes, the Boy Scouts are allowed to not include…

  • Martha Orkand

       Martha Shapiro Orkand, 86, of Jeffersonville, Pa., died Monday at Haven Hospice of John F. Kennedy Medical Center, Edison.    Born in Russia, she lived in Perth Amboy and Jamesburg, and later lived in the Mar-Len Gardens community of North Miami Beach, Fla. for 17 years before moving to Pennsylvania.    She was a graduate of the…

  • Harriett Strauss

    By:Staff    EAST WINDSOR – Harriett Strauss, 83, died Dec. 9 at Elms Rehabilitation Center, Cranbury.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she lived in Great Neck, N.Y., before moving to East Windsor five years ago.    Wife of the late Isidore Strauss, she is survived by three sons, Emanuel Strauss of East Windsor, Bernard Strauss of Boston and…

  • Lack of housing prompts protest by grad students

    About 30 Princeton students object to living arrangements By: Jeff Milgram    Carrying signs such as "homeless preceptors grade angry," about 30 Princeton University graduate students gathered in Firestone Plaza around noon Thursday to protest a shortage of university housing.    "It’s at a crisis level. I don’t know what’s going to happen next year," said Karthick…