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  • Borough Council OKs open-space tax vote

    Governing body opts for 1-cent levy By: Jennifer Potash    When Princeton Borough residents go to the voting booth in November, they will face the additional issue of a 1-cent open-space tax.    The Borough Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to adopt an ordinance that will place the question on the ballot. Casting the no vote was Council…

  • Cranbury-Plainsboro simply wins

    Little Leaguers come up big against Florence By: Rich Fisher    Joe Voigtsberger likes to keep things simple when it comes to coaching little league baseball.    After all, despite all the media coverage and all the fans at these tournaments, it still is little league baseball.    But even the Cranbury-Plainsboro 12-year-old All-Star manager got a little…

  • Montgomery 15s stomp Hopewell

    Babe Ruth baseball team advances to face Lawrence By: Bob Nuse    LAWRENCE – The Cardiac Kids didn’t need any last-minute heroics this time.    After pulling out a pair of games with late-inning rallies and falling just short in another, Montgomery topped Hopewell, 11-1, Wednesday night in a losers’ bracket game in the District One Babe…

  • Borough Council honors officer career changes

    By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Borough Council took a moment Tuesday to salute some of the officers of the Police Department.    The council acknowledged the long service of retiring Capt. Peter J. Hanley and Sgt. William T. Clark.    Each officer was given a proclamation honoring his service, as well as a small gift.    More than…

  • First Presbyterian Church vacation Bible school

    By: Staff    The First Presbyterian Church of Hightstown will hold a Vacation Bible School featuring "Veggie Tales" for children age 4 through fifth grade.    Registration will be held until July 27 at Wilson House next to the church on North Main Street. Call Laura at 448-0055 for information.

  • AROUND CRANBURY: Local rabbit will be missed

    By:Lorraine Sedor    Recently I received a note from Amy Kallan about the demise of Harvey the white rabbit. She enclosed a photo, taken in April, and wrote: My family and I had enjoyed frequent visits from Harvey since late last summer. One morning in April I walked out of my house and saw Harvey in…

  • Golf tournament predicted to draw 100,000 to area

    The week-long Senior Professional Association tournament begins Monday at the Tournament Players Club at Jasna Polana. By: Jane Karlicek    Fore!!!    The Senior Professional Golf Association’s Instinet Classic is coming to the Tournament Players Club at Jasna Polana next week, bringing with it scores of golf players, golf lovers and traffic.    And area police, merchants and…

  • Class of 1980, where are you?

    Alumni still missing for high-school reunion    Manville High School Class of 1980 is having a 20-year reunion on July 22, but several classmates remain missing.    Anyone with information about the following Manville High School alumni should write to MHS Class of 1980, P.O. Box 916, Manville, N.J. 08835, or care of The Manville News.    Unaccounted…

  • Grade plans reduced to two

    West Windsor-Plainsboro narrows choice of grade configurations. By: David M. Campbell    The Town Center Elementary School, planned to open in Plainsboro for the 2002-2003 school year, will apparently be a K-3 or K-5 school.    Choices in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District’s debate on elementary grade configuration were narrowed to those two following school board…