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  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Team learns through helping deaf player

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Team learns through helping deaf player

    By Maria Riegel, Special Writer    The high school’s girls’ varsity softball team has engaged in a learning experience during the 2011 season through junior shortstop, Chelsea Lee, who happens to be deaf, according to assistant varsity coach Joanne Smith.    ”She is teaching us more than we teach her,” Ms. Smith said. “The team gets to…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Justice has been served

    EDITORIAL The terrorist actions devised and brought about by Osama bin Laden reached into and changed the lives of every American to varying degrees on Sept. 11, 2001.    In the Princeton area alone, more than a dozen families lost loved ones when the Twin Towers went down. More than 3,000 people, most of them Americans,…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Laverty elected board president

    By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor HIGHTSTOWN — East Windsor Regional School District reorganized on Monday.    Robert Laverty was elected this year’s board president while math teacher Lisa Abel was sworn in as the board’s newest member.    Ms. Abel joined the board less than a week after voters opted to select her over incumbent and outgoing…

  • Fine Arts Faculty Member Lucas Kelly Featured in Princeton Arts Council Exhibit May 7-June 25

    Fine Arts Faculty Member Lucas Kelly Featured in Princeton Arts Council Exhibit May 7-June 25

    By Wendy Humphrey West Windsor, N.J. — Lucas Kelly, MCCC assistant professor of Fine Arts, is featured in a new exhibit, "Perfect Citizen," to be presented by the Arts Council of Princeton from May 7 – June 25. Kelly will exhibit four watercolors and a site specific installation called "Unlimited Time Offer." In addition to Kelly,…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Veteran firefighter honored by city officials

    LAMBERTVILLE: Veteran firefighter honored by city officials

    Lambertville recently honored Frank Kramer Jr. (left) with a proclamation. Shown with Mr. Kramer is Mayor David Del Vecchio.

  • EAST WINDSOR: Judo champion earning victories

    EAST WINDSOR: Judo champion earning victories

    By Doug Carman, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — Michelle Arias acknowledges that few of her high school friends think of her as a fighter. Not that she ever had a need to use her judo skills at school, but with her slim 5-foot 1-inch frame, many people simply don’t believe she’d be the type to…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Sports News & Notes

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Sports News & Notes

    By Rich Fisher, Special Writer    After an initial season of learning the game of basketball under coaches Derek Underwood and Conrad Wright, the South Brunswick boys 4th-grade travel basketball team enjoyed a successful campaign.Focus and hard work paved the way for the Side Lee Viking Classic Tournament championship, as they rallied from an 18-point deficit…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Jancewicz excels at Penn Relays

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    Noel Jancewicz couldn’t have been a bigger underdog at the Penn Relays.    The Robbinsville High School sophomore was seeded 17th out of the 17 high jumpers in the international field.    ”I think the qualifying mark was 5-feet-6,” Jancewicz said. “That was all I really hit in a meet so…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – New BOE members start term

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – New BOE members start term

    By Mary Brienza, Staff Writer    Newly elected Board of Education members Patrick Del Piano, Deven Patel and incumbent Arthur Robinson were sworn in to their positions as board members by School Business Administrator and Board Secretary Anthony Tonzini, Monday night.    Dr. Matthew Speesler, who was a member of the board for 15 years and board…