Category: archives
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Peddie boys set to tip-off new season tonight
By:Neil Hay If you are a fan of Princeton University basketball, this is right up your alley. Spreading the floor. Screens, cuts, backdoor plays. Dunks? Not likely. "There’ll be lots of Princeton stuff," predicts Frank Schermerhorn, the new boys basketball coach at the Peddie School. By "stuff," Schermerhorn does not mean the kind that…
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Serving the hungry
Area soup kitchen on wheels gives food to those in need By:Laura Toto Joan Howell and Louise Mears say there are many reasons they volunteer to feed the hungry at the food mobile that stops weekly in Manville, but what moves them most is the children. "When a little girl first came to the food…
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School lot plan delayed until ’01
CRANBURY — Questions about a school and municipal parking lot will not be answered until new committee is in place. By: Brian Shappell The township and the school board will not meet before the new year to discuss a new school/municipal parking lot circulation plan because of the committee’s busy schedule and to allow a…
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Millstone waiting game no paradise for Eden
Delays on Millstone Bypass spur delays in building new institute in West Windsor By: David M. Campbell WEST WINDSOR – Gov. Whitman’s recent decision to reject the findings of the state Department of Transportation and order a full environmental impact statement on the proposed Millstone Bypass has prolonged the township’s waiting game, with some unexpected…
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Eline McKnight
By:Staff HIGHTSTOWN – Eline Holst McKnight died Nov. 30 of cancer at Meadow Lakes Health Clinic. She was 90. Born in Yokohama, Japan, and educated in Japan, Holland, and the United States, she was a former resident of Scarsdale, N.Y., and New York City. A brother, Willem Holst, who died last year, was a 25-year…
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Christmas cheers
CRANBURY — Annual tree-lighting party kicks off season. By: Brian Shappell Much of the country may consider Black Friday to be the official start of the holiday season — but Cranbury’s holiday season kicked off last Friday with plenty of traditions and events to keep people busy and smiling. The imaginary line between South and…
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Spirit of the community
The Westminster Community Orchestra is combining forces with the Raritan Valley Choral Society, the Westminster Community Chorus and the Westminster Conservatory Children’s Choirs for a Community Christmas Concert Dec. 13. By: Susan Van Dongen The Raritan Valley Choral Society rehearses for its upcoming holiday concert in Princeton. If Westminster Community Orchestra conductor Barbara Barstow conducts…
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Borough rings in the holidays with Christmas at Lakeview
By: Nick D’Amore JAMESBURG — Residents got away from the malls and into the Christmas spirit with music, model trains and a visit from Santa Claus during the borough’s recent holiday festivities at Buckelew Mansion. “We had a very nice turnout,” said Mavis Baker, president of the Jamesburg Historical Association. She said the annual event,…
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Mace hopes everything’s in placefor a great HHS boys’ swimming season
Returning swimmers are encouraging coach By:Neil Hay Having won only two meets last year, goals are decidedly modest for this year’s edition of the Hightstown High School boys’ swim team. Coach Ellen Mace, beginning her fourth season with the Rams, has plenty of returning swimmers on deck. Helped out by several newcomers, the team has…
