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  • House hopefuls face off in court

    Full recount expected as next step By: Jennifer Potash Related stories: • Twelfth District still up in air (Nov. 8, 2000)    Attorneys for 12th Congressional District candidates Rep. Rush Holt and challenger Dick Zimmer dueled in Superior Court in two counties Monday over the acceptance of provisional ballots as the outcome of their race hung…

  • Their work is picture perfect

    Program helps disabled become working artists By: Helen Pettigrew    MONTGOMERY – Black paint streaks boldly across white canvas and a dark triangle begins to take form under a red rectangular shape.    This is the start of a new painting for artist Jessica Opatut, 21, of Princeton, whose work was displayed at the 1860 House last…

  • DISPATCHES: We need campaign controls — or larger mailboxes

    By: Hank Kalet    The best thing about Election Day is it marks the end of the election season.    That may seem like an odd comment, coming as it does from a self-professed political junkie like myself. But the end of the political season means we’re done with political advertising, done with the bulk mailings that…

  • FORUM: Electoral College

    Should the Electoral College be abolished? Should the Electoral College be abolished?

  • Institute drops suit against astrophysicist

    Piet Hut’s future at center still to be determined By: Jeff Milgram    The legal battle is over, but the war of words between the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study and astrophysicist Piet Hut continues.    The institute last week dropped its lawsuit in federal court in Trenton to force Dr. Hut to live up to an…

  • WW-PS soccer ready to face physical Lenape

    Deetjen’s dedication typifies Pirate girls By: Justin Feil    Despite taking several penalty kicks in last Wednesday’s practice, Caroline Deetjen didn’t quite feel comfortable on the eve of the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South girls’ soccer game against East Brunswick.    After all, it wasn’t any old game. On the line was the Central Jersey Group IV championship…

  • WW-PS’ new attitude has girls in quarters

    Pirate volleyball team not short on confidence By: Justin Feil    The West Windsor-Plainsboro High South girls’ volleyball team is a confident team.    But they were a confident team last year when they fell in the first round of the state Group IV tournament. This year, the Pirates have something else going their way – the…

  • Julianna Malko, 75

       MANVILLE — Julianna (Yanish) Malko died Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was 75.    Born in Manville she was a lifelong resident of the Borough.    She worked as a seamstress at Snappi-Knits in Manville for many years. Prior to that, she worked in the bookkeeping department of the…

  • Lynn Marie Van Syckel, 58

       BELLE MEAD — Lynn Marie Van Syckel died Saturday, Nov. 11, 2000, at home. She was 58.    Born in Reading, Pa., she lived in Somerville before moving to the Belle Mead section of Hillsborough.    She was a homemaker.    Mrs. Van Syckel was a past president of the Somerset Medical Center Auxiliary; secretary for Region IV…