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  • MHS soccer can’t scale Ridge

    Cougars prove they belong in SCT semifinal By: Justin Feil    RARITAN – The Montgomery High School girls’ soccer team has faced a lot of doubters this season.    Doubters questioned initially how good a team that lost eight starters could be, then as the Cougars built their record, doubters refused to believe the Group II school…

  • PU men’s water polo primed for tourneys

    Tigers finish second in ECAC tournament By: Justin Feil    The Princeton University men’s water polo team is on the verge of doing great things.    After finishing second in the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament, held Saturday and Sunday at Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool, the Tigers have two of their biggest tournaments just around the corner.    "It’s…

  • Police charge two township officials

    Construction officers suspended without pay    A township housing inspector and his supervisor have been suspended from their jobs without pay after police charged them with theft of services and falsifying or tampering with records, and complicity to commit theft of services and complicity in falsifying or tampering with records. By: Lea Kahn    Housing Inspector Thomas…

  • WW-P South set for rematch in states

    Pirate field hockey team faces Phillipsburg By: Justin Feil    A year ago, the two teams met for the North Jersey, Section 2 field hockey championship. On the sideline, Lori Hussong was the head coach of the No. 2 seeded West Windsor-Plainsboro field hockey team, and Sara Hill was an assistant under Phillipsburg’s Bonnie Burcaw.    Phillipsburg…

  • Deer shoot approved in Princeton Township

    Five-year management plan would begin in mid-January with professional marksmen reducing the herd. By: David Weinstein    In front of a standing-room-only crowd sprinkled with vocal opponents, the Township Committee on Monday night unanimously approved a five-year deer-management plan along with a contract with a firm to conduct six weeks of intermittent sharpshooting to start in…

  • Voters face state, local questions

    In addition to two state questions, many local voters will be asked to approve questions on open space taxes and emergency volunteer benefits. By: Jennifer Potash        Voters in The Packet coverage area will face several statewide and local referendum questions on the ballot next week.    Public Question No. 1 proposes a constitutional amendment that…

  • OBITUARIES, Oct. 31, 2000

    Ralph D. Hulit, Kathleen M. Edwards, Helen S. Beckwith, Doris M. Williams. Ralph D. Hulit Headed shoe store    Ralph D. Hulit of Princeton Township died Saturday at the Merwick rehabilitation unit of The Medical Center at Princeton. He was 82.    Born in Princeton, he graduated from Princeton High School and was a lifelong Princeton resident.…

  • Social program funding key issue in 12th District

    Candidates’ positions reflect those of parties at national level By: Jennifer Potash    While Democratic Rep. Rush Holt and his Republican opponent Dick Zimmer agree on a number of social issues, including safeguarding a woman’s right to choose an abortion, the two men disagree on funding of social programs, in particular the future of Social Security.…

  • Tainted dump site costly to West Windsor

    By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR – The Township Council approved a settlement Monday with NJ Transit that obligates the township to spend several hundred thousand dollars to clean up 2 acres of land sold to the transit authority without the authority being informed the land was contaminated.    In a 3-2 vote, with Council Vice…