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  • Lessons from a tree

    Former New York State Gov. Mario Cuomo will come to Barnes & Noble to talk about life’s lessons and his new children’s book, "The Blue Spruce" By:Ilene Dube    In 1982, when Mario Cuomo was running against millionaire businessman Lewis Lehrman for the governorship of New York State, he had a little epiphany.    Mr. Cuomo, out…

  • With two returning singles players,HHS tennis hopes to net .500 season

    By:Kyle Moylan        The Hightstown High School girls’ tennis team may have modest goals for this season, but at least it has the capability to make them come true.    "If we can make .500, that would be a nice goal," Hightstown coach Al Lozier noted.    Lozier, who is entering his seventh season at Hightstown –…

  • WW-P North football team falls amid festivities

    Inexperience too much to overcome in opener against Lawrence By: Justin Feil    West Windsor-Plainsboro High North knew that there would be growing pains in its first season of high school competition.    That was never more evident than in the Knight football team’s 34-0 loss to Lawrence on Saturday. WW-P North had its share of problems…

  • Stablility helps MHS boys soccer

    Cougars start season off on right foot By: Bob Nuse    For the first time in their high school careers, the players on the Montgomery High boys’ soccer team have the same head coach for consecutive seasons.    And for the Cougars, that should mean the start of turning around a disappointing season in which they won…

  • Budget review report offers fodder aplenty

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Sept. 12 By:    There is plenty of ammunition in the recently released Local Government Budget Review of Princeton Borough, Princeton Township and the Princeton Regional Schools to keep the pro-consolidation and anti-consolidation forces more than amply armed for years.    It’s been almost impossible to talk about budgets, appropriations, tax rates and the delivery…

  • From the diary of Mario Cuomo

    By:    Tired, very tired, feeling the many months of struggle, last night I went up to the den to make some notes. I was looking for a pencil, rummaging through some papers in the back of the desk drawer, where things accumulate for years, when I turned up one of Poppa’s old business cards, the…

  • Gente y Cuentos con Angelica Mariani

    Programa gratis en espanol para la comunidad de Hightstown, East Windsor By: Staff    Gente y Cuentos es un programa en espanol que tiene por objeto despertar el interes por la literatura latinoamericana contemporanea. A traves de la discusion de cuentos leidos por la coordinadora Angelica Mariani los participantes disfrutan de unos momentos agradables al ir…

  • A Palmer Square treat to melt away

    Thomas Sweet to sell ice cream only at Nassau Street store. By: Jennifer Potash    Thomas Sweet Ice Cream on Palmer Square will consolidate the ice cream portion of its business and move that service to its flagship location at 183 Nassau St.    Co-owners Tom Grimm and Tom Block will close the ice cream portion of…

  • Invasion of mildew forces school to close

    The reopening of Montgomery’s Orchard Hill Elementary School depends on test results and progress in removal of insulation. By: Jeff Milgram    MONTGOMERY – Students at the Orchard Hill Elementary School got at least four extra days of summer vacation Monday when the school was closed throughThursday, and maybe longer, while crews clean up an extensive…