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  • Future of institute professor heads to federal court

    By: Jeff Milgram    Does the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study want Professor Piet Hut to leave his tenured professorship because he has become more interested in computers than in astrophysics? Or does it want Dr. Hut to leave because he failed to win a grant from the National Science Foundation?    It will be up to…

  • Peddie teacher’s newest novel receiving enthusiastic reviews

    Paul Watkins By:Sara Gunther    Mr. Watkins keeps a fairly low profile around campus, so many students are unaware of not only his presence at Peddie but also his stature in the literary world.    Often considered the Hemingway of his generation, Mr. Watkins "shows himself to be a natural story teller endowed with a peculiarly masculine…

  • High school students can learn civicsserving on local municipal commissions

    By:Staff    EAST WINDSOR – East Windsor Township is seeking high school students to serve as student representatives to township boards and commissions.    The Township Council has formally established the non-voting position of student representative to many advisory boards and commissions. The board and commissions included in the program are: Commission on Aging, Clean Communities Committee,…

  • Police chief issue still causes rift

    By: Helen Pettigrew    MONTGOMERY – A special Township Committee meeting Wednesday with a consultant hired last week to help find a police chief led to one member walking out and the mayor expressing fears that the consultant may quit the project.    Committeewoman Ali Henkel said she left the meeting 15 minutes before it ended, maintaining…

  • HHS girls’ soccer blanks Northern Burlington

    By:Sean Moylan        For the majority of the first half, the Northern Burlington County Regional High School girls’ varsity soccer team’s defense bent but never broke under a constant onslaught of shots by the Hightstown Rams this past Tuesday.    But with a minute to go in the first half, just when it appeared NBC had…

  • Borough Council delays action on parking meters

    By: jennifer Potash    The Princeton Borough Council made minor changes Tuesday to a proposed ordinance to increase parking meter rates and extend enforcement hours. But it did not introduce the measure, as had been expected.    The council is now expected to introduce the revised ordinance at its Nov. 9 meeting and could vote on it…

  • Fall frosts to kill off West Nile virus

    Temperatures of 30 degrees or below on two or three successive nights will send the mosquitoes into hibernation By: Al Wicklund    MONROE – The season for the culex pipiens mosquito, the common house mosquito recognized as a carrier of the West Nile virus, is nearing an end.    "The mosquito season is winding down. A couple…

  • Rose Trapani

    By: Staff    SOUTH RIVER – Rose Rizzuti Trapani, 75, died Oct. 6 at St. Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in New York City, she lived in Hightstown for 25 years before moving to South River 25 years ago.    She was a seamstress for many years in South River, and most recently worked at Marion…

  • Corzine, Franks clash on future of Social Security

    By: Jennifer Potash    TRENTON – The second debate between Republican Rep. Bob Franks and Democrat Jon Corzine illustrated the sharp differences between the two on issues such as Social Security but also reflected several similarities between them.    The one-hour debate Thursday was co-sponsored by New Jersey Network and The New York Times.    Mr. Corzine, the…