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  • District hires teaching aide

    By:Nick D’Amore    The Cranbury Board of Education agreed Tuesday to spend about $20,000 to hire a fifth-grade teacher’s aide to start in September.    Chief School Administrator Robert Bartoletti said a teacher’s aide would be able to give students more individual attention than a teacher alone would.    “We had a teacher’s aide three or four years…

  • Monday meeting key to library plan

    By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees is hoping the Princeton Borough Council and the Princeton Township Committee will sign off on its proposal for a new three-story building on the existing library site, with an estimated cost of $17.5 million.    The trustees are scheduled to meet with the Borough Council and…

  • Seminary delays action on senior renters

    The Princeton Theological Seminary gives senior citizens another year before they must leave their rented apartments. By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR – Seven senior citizens who thought they would lose their longtime homes this summer have gotten a reprieve from their landlord.    The Princeton Theological Seminary backed away from its plan to not renew…

  • AROUND CRANBURY: Golden Agers have golden time

    By:Lorraine Sedor Marie Dey, president of the Golden Age Neighbors, reported via e-mail this week on the club’s summer activities. The group was recently treated to a luncheon meeting by the Woman’s Club of Cranbury, which provided two delicious main course dishes and a number of desserts. Marie said the members commented on the beautiful…

  • EDITORIAL: When conventions meant something

    By:    ýcc18;þWith the Republican National Convention coming up in Philadelphia, we can’t help feeling a twinge of nostalgia for the good old days — when political conventions were real events, full of suspense and drama, as opposed to packaged, made-for-television yawners.    We find ourselves thinking back to 1960, when the roll call came down to…

  • A new discharge at 3M quarry reported

    By: Jeff Milgram    MONTGOMERY – Wednesday’s rainfall caused another discharge of stone dust from the 3M plant in Belle Mead into township waterways, Township Health Officer Dave Henry said Thursday.    The discharge was the second in two weeks, with the first occurring in the Back Brook on July 16. The state Department of Environmental Protection…

  • New ‘hot rod’ in high demand

    ‘We have a salesman who’s been here for 30 years and he’s never seen anything like it.’ Richard Zimmer Coleman-Main Line Chrysler-Plymouth By: John Patten        EAST WINDSOR – Ken Gossard works at M&M Quality Automotive on Route 130, but he may be one of Coleman-Main Line Chrysler-Plymouth’s best salesmen.    Especially when he parks his…

  • WW-P to consider a new grade scheme

    Back to three options for reconfiguring elementary schools By: David M. Campbell    The West Windsor-Plainsboro School District is back to three options for reconfiguring its elementary school grades.    On July 11, the school board voted 9-0 in favor of a resolution to hire district architect David Faridy, at a cost of $37,500, to draft two…

  • WW 13s drop Section 3 banner

    District 12 champions run out of comebacks By: Justin Feil    West Windsor had made a habit of coming back – first to win the District 12 crown, and then to move through the Section 3 Junior Softball winners’ bracket.    But in the Section 3 championship on Tuesday, unfortunately for them, the 13-year-olds kicked that habit…