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  • Schools reach out to parents in new ways

    E-mail, Web site figure in new approaches By:Eric Schwarz    Parents of Manville students will have additional ways to communicate with the school district this year.    A new Web site will allow parents and others to send e-mail messages to teachers and administrators.    And Alexander Batcho Intermediate School is revising its system of sending printed notices…

  • Obliging police fill request

    By: Michael Arges        EAST WINDSOR – At 5:25 a.m. Monday, police found Charles Castrovinci, 25, of Staten Island, N.Y., in the lobby area of the East Windsor Ramada Inn waving his arms and shouting "Arrest me! Arrest me! Take me away! Arrest me!"    So police did, eventually charging him with three counts of assault…

  • Company ups offer for wireless modems

    But gaps still remain in network area By: Michael Arges        EAST WINDSOR – Representatives of a high-tech company seeking permission to place wireless Internet modems on East Windsor street lights increased their offer to the township during last week’s Township Council meeting.    In February, Metricom Inc., of Los Gatos, Calif., offered to pay East…

  • Nila Abalos

    Was director of Social Work at Princeton Nursing Home By: Staff    HIGHTSTOWN – Nila Laborde Nicholas Abalos, 53, died Aug. 31 at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in Barangay, Santisima, Santa Cruz Laguana, Philippines, she came to the United States in 1962 and lived in Trenton before moving to Hightstown.    Mrs. Abalos,…

  • VETERANS SCRAPBOOK: From China to Calcutta: laying pipe for Uncle Sam

    By:Al Wicklund MONROE — In the China-Burma-India theater of military op­erations where Harold Wolf served during World War II, the enemy in­cluded dysentery, malaria, flooding and the Imperial Japanese Army. Mr. Wolf, of Concordia, was part of an engineering unit that, from 1943 to 1945, put down 2,000 miles of pipeline to carry oil and…

  • WW-P South gets historic win

    Tennis Pirates spoil WW-P North’s athletic debut By: Justin Feil    Albert Paulsson called it a perfect day to christen the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North courts.    Invite one of the state’s powers and sister school, West Windsor-Plainsboro High South, to play the first-ever match, the first-ever athletic contest in WW-P North school history on coincidentally the…

  • Column: Justin Time

    Carmody to prove why he can win at Northwestern By: Justin Feil    A lot of people are wondering: "Why Northwestern?"    Bill Carmody asks: "Why not?"    The former Princeton University men’s basketball coach, who was introduced Wednesday as the new Wildcats head coach, sees a good academic institution, a picturesque setting and athletic potential – a…

  • Football team looks to soar with new attitude

    By:Ken Weingartner    Ya gotta believe.    The New York Mets rode pitcher Tug McGraw’s rallying cry all the way to the 1973 World Series, overcoming an 11-game deficit late in the regular season and knocking off Cincinnati’s “Big Red Machine” in the playoffs.    This year, the Monroe High School football team will be looking to use…

  • Borough Council accepts pay raise plan

    By: Mark Moffa        HIGHTSTOWN – In a move that has received criticism for six months, the Borough Council finally voted Tuesday, 4-2, to raise the salary of the mayor and council members.    Councilman Lawrence Quattrone and Councilwoman Sherry Whitman voted against the resolution, which will raise the annual salary for council members from $2,400…