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  • Council hears new pleas for speed humps

    Armour Road residents implore Borough Council to take action By: Jennifer Potash    As some Princeton Borough streets with traffic problems get speed humps, residents from other streets are also demanding the traffic-calming devices.    Residents from Armour Road implored the Borough Council on Tuesday to install speed humps or traffic islands or generally do something to…

  • Saturday’s conference for Latino youthfocuses on building muticultural society

    ‘The whole theme this year is unity and then moving on to create a better society.’ Dr. David Abalos By:Staff    The second Latino/Latina Youth Conference, scheduled for Saturday at Hightstown High School, will build on the success of last year’s inaugural event with food, music and discussions of the relationships between males and females in…

  • Ballet school turns attention to exterior work

    CRANBURY- Princeton Ballet has completed interior renovations and will now focus on exterior improvements. By: Brian Shappell    From North Main Street it may not seem that the Princeton Ballet School has changed in recent months — but it certainly has.    Renovations to the inside of the building were finished last month, about one week after…

  • Community Ed program readies for fall

    Classes begin Oct. 16 By: Brian Shappell    For the third year, the Board of Education will be running its Community Education Program.    Sue Leson and Marty Hayden, who also run the Cranbury Arts Council, have been hired to coordinate the program for the third time in a year-and-a-half.    Community Education classes begin on Oct. 16.…

  • Geraldine P. Hancock

       Geraldine Petty Hancock, 63, of Cranbury, died Oct. 4 at the Medical Center at Princeton.    She was born in Trenton, and lived in the Cranbury area for many years. She retired earlier this year as circulation manager of the publication Population Index, at Princeton University, after 45 years. She was an active member and coordinator…

  • Bike helmet giveaway scheduled

    By: David Weinstein    Children living in several sections of Princeton Township will soon have the opportunity to better protect themselves as they ride bicycles or push their scooters on community streets.    The Princeton Housing Authority has scheduled two days for a bicycle helmet giveaway for children living on Reading Circle and Karen Court, as well…

  • Downtown craft and gift store flies the coop

    CRANBURY- Cranbury Coop will close down Nov. 10, to be the second North Main Street business in two months to leave town. By: Brian Shappell    For the second time in two months a prominent business on North Main Street is leaving Cranbury.    On Nov. 10, the Cranbury Coop will close its doors for the final…

  • WW-P administration backs current elementary school scheme

    By: David M. Campbell    The administration of the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District recommended to the Board of Education Tuesday that it keep the current elementary school configuration of grades K-3 schools and grades 4-5 schools rather than make the costly switch to all elementary schools made up of grades K-5.    In response, the board,…

  • 700-employee warehouse aimed at farmland

    Project would pay $1.2 million in taxes annually By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR – The Township Planning Board has told a South Brunswick-based company it would consider a proposal to build an immense warehouse on farmland that had once been targeted for open-space preservation.    The company said it would bring 700 employees and $1.2…