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  • NEWS OF OTHER DAYS 9/28

    From the Sept. 28 edition of the Register-News By: 120 years ago    When W. T. Devlan returned home from Africa, a few months since, he brought home three monkeys, one of which was tamed, the other two not so much so. The tame one, chained in the yard, has had troops of youngsters to gaze…

  • Gwiazdowski chides committee for not buying land

    But Democrats claim land not a good purchase By:Laura Toto    A Republican candidate for Township Committee meeting asserted before the sitting members that they had lost grant money from the county by failing to act on an open-space purchase.    Tony Gwiazdowski told committee members, all Democratic, that he had learned on Sept. 26 from a…

  • Brick auction showcases local history

    Collection of antiques over three centuries old By:Vanessa S. Holt        CHESTERFIELD – The large white house in Crosswicks called Four Acres has been home to the Brick family for almost 100 years.    Built in 1904 by Josiah Brick, the 11-bedroom house at the corner of Buttonwood and Front streets was occupied by his daughter,…

  • Cards earn key win over Knights

    Girls Soccer By: Mike Molaro    The 5-0 triumph that the Lawrence High School girls soccer squad posted over West Windsor-Plainsboro North at home last Friday was huge for a number of reasons.    First, the Cardinals evened their record at 3-3 and kept them on pace for a post-season invitation. Second, it was the first shutout…

  • Classic car show part of the fun

    By: Ken Weingartner    WASHINGTON – Karl Mey got into the automobile repair business by accident.    In 1967, Mr. Mey damaged his 1966 Corvette in a mishap. He had a friend who was the manager of a body shop in Princeton and took his car there for repairs.    "I ended up doing a lot of work…

  • Bulldogs earn three key wins

    Boys Soccer By: Matt Nalbone    The Hopewell Valley Central High School boys soccer team is off to one of its best starts in years. The Bulldogs played three more games over the past week with some very familiar results.    First up for the Bulldogs was the first-ever meeting between Hopewell and the new West Windsor-Plainsboro…

  • PENNINGTON PLANNING UPDATE

    By:Marianne Hooker    At its Sept. 13 meeting, the Pennington Planning Board approved a use variance that will allow a family on East Welling Avenue to live on site in a travel trailer while their house is being rebuilt.    The board also adopted a resolution asking Pennington Borough Council to reconsider its recent decision to delete…

  • Field hockey bounces back

    By: Neil Hay    Two games. Two nearly identical scenarios. Two identical scores. Two very different outcomes.    Such was last week for the Allentown High School field hockey team.    On Thursday the Redbirds were at West Windsor-North, where the two squads battled through regulation and into overtime with neither team able to score. Finally, with the…

  • Learning to sign

    By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON – "American sign language has a different grammatical structure than English," says Jessica Corriveau, a sign language instructor at the Marie Katzenbach School for the Deaf.    Ms. Corriveau is teaching a 90-minute introductory sign language class at the Washington Branch of the Mercer County Library system off Robbinsville-Allentown Road.    I’m in…