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  • Cardinals impressive in preseason scrimmage

    Football By: Steve Feitl    On a hot and humid Saturday morning, the Lawrence Cardinal varsity football squad learned why its coaches had run the team hard each and every day for the past two weeks.    Despite the draining weather conditions and constant pressure from a tough South Hunterdon team, the Cardinals emerged from their scrimmage…

  • Students may pay more to take district’s SAT preparation course

    By: Michael Arges        Students taking the SAT preparation course at Hightstown High School would pay more under a plan discussed Monday by school board members.    The Board of Education discussed raising the fee to $100 from $13, citing reimbursement of costs and an improvement in student participation. Previously the high school had charged only…

  • Catharine Matilda Dale

       Catharine Matilda Dale, 91, died Aug. 26 at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in Trenton, she moved to Lawrenceville in 1980.    Mrs. Dale was a member of Lawrence Road Presbyterian Church, Lawrence Plaza Club and a former member of Liberty Chapter of Deborah Hospital Foundation.    Wife of the late John C. Dale,…

  • Shuttle bus plan eyed for Rt. 130

    Would link bus and train stations By: Matthew Armstrong    Shuttle service to nearby train stations could be in the future as the Middlesex County Planning Board looks at plans to help ease traffic congestion.    The county Planning Board is studying traffic patterns and new development in the county and is recommending a shuttle service to…

  • EDITORIAL: Linking station with MOM line is blackmail

       Call it blackmail.    Jeffrey Warsh, executive director of NJ Transit, has told South Brunswick officials that if they want a train station built along the Northeast Corridor rail line, it will have to take the Lakehurst-to-Monmouth Junction line, as well.    Mr. Warsh said last week a South Brunswick rail station would only worsen traffic in…

  • Column: Over There

    British lingo takes some getting used to By: Bill Alden    LONDON – When we moved to London a year ago, I thought that some of the bigger adjustments I would have to make in adapting to daily life here would involve such things as finding the best local pub or avoiding getting crushed as I…

  • OBITUARIES, September 1, 2000

    Eugene E. Pierre, John F. Ficken, Gregory Y. Titelman, Louis L, Katona, Cynthia A. Fox. Eugene E. Pierre Retired AT&T technician    Eugene Emile Pierre of Princeton Borough died Aug. 25 at The Medical Center at Princeton. He was 75.    Born in Princeton, he attended Princeton High School and was a lifelong resident.    He was a…

  • Week of planning helped presidential visit go smoothly

    By: Matthew Armstrong    The township exhaled this week after working around the clock for almost a week to prepare for President Bill Clinton’s visit last week to Crossroads School.    The township received tentative word on Aug. 17 that President Clinton would be coming to South Brunswick the following Wednesday to speak about overcrowded schools.    The…

  • Verna Mae Rollhauser

       Verna Mae Rollhauser, 85, of Lawrenceville, died Aug. 27 at Hamilton Continuing Care Center, Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong area resident.    She was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Trenton.    Daughter of the late Harry and Viola Smith Heater, stepdaughter of the late Royal Morton, and wife of the late Charles L.…