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  • Residents petition for reduced speed limit

    Township may slow down traffic on Oak Creek Road By: Michael Arges        EAST WINDSOR – Putting the brakes on Oak Creek Road traffic is on the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting of the Township Council.    In response to the concerns of area residents – including a request to make Oak Creek Road safe for ice…

  • Enforcing sign ordinance just partof borough improvements

    Ordinance may soon be rewritten By:Mark Moffa        HIGHTSTOWN – Harry Wetterskog, the borough’s construction official and zoning officer, is cracking down on businesses in town, enforcing the borough’s signage ordinance for the first time in as long as anyone can remember.    "It was never really enforced to the fullest extent," Mr. Wetterskog said. "It…

  • Blood drive set Tuesday in township

       A blood drive for all Princeton Township employees, residents and members of all boards and commissions will begin 9 a.m. Tuesday in the main meeting room of the Valley Road Building.    Last year, a similar event was held for township employees only, but this year the drive has been opened to the public.    It will…

  • Ballet school turns attention to exterior work

    CRANURY- Princeton Ballet completes interior renovations 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 the fall schedule of classes started on Sept.…

  • Monroe can’t finish off Vikes

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A trip to South Brunswick proved unprofitable for the Monroe Township High School girls’ varsity soccer team, as the Lady Falcons fell to their former White Division rivals in a Greater Middlesex Conference crossover match Wednesday.    Since moving up to the GMC’s Red Division, the Vikings have struggled…

  • Young Pirate runners improving

    WW-P South sets goals for future By: Justin Feil    HAMILTON – Years from now, Chris Bond said, the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South boys’ cross country runners will look back on their careers and think about how much they accomplished.    Bond, who is in his second year as the sole coach for the Pirates, already is…

  • History of a road, sneakers and a big Halloween bash

    AROUND CRANBURY By: Lorraine Sedor    Eileen Griggs McGillan of Plainsboro faxed over the origin of the street name, Griggs Road, after reading last week’s column about Silvers Lane.    Eileen writes that Griggs Road was named after the Griggs family, who owned the apple orchard known as Eastview Orchards, the site where Cranbury Estates now stands.…

  • Lillian Collier

       Lillian L. Houghton Collier, 82, died Sunday at Meadow Lakes, Hightstown.    Born in Highland Park, she lived in Milltown, Bernardsville, and was a resident of Rossmoor before moving to the Meadow Lakes community in Hightstown in 1990. In addition, she was a winter resident of Boca Raton, Fla.    In the communities in which she resided…

  • Winning appearance

    East Windsor Rescue Squad #1 recognized at competition By:Staff    Members of East Windsor Rescue Squad #1 recently won several first place honors in friendly com­ petitions with other area squads. Last week at a show in Monmouth County, the members – (back row, left to right) Matt Shane, Daine-Brie Simpson, Chris Reynold, Kevin Hood, larry…