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  • Plan for Rite Aid, Starbucks advances in West Windsor

    We have to make sure that anything we build will eventually fit into the redevelopment concept and create a Main Street on Route 571 By: Greg Forester    WEST WINDSOR — A developer hoping to replace the dilapidated gas station at the corner of Route 571 and Cranbury Road with a retail center featuring a Rite…

  • Pirates tennis tops Knights

    New No. 1 Scharfstein leads sweep By: Justin Feil    Annie Scharfstein and the retooled West Windsor-Plainsboro South girls’ tennis team passed their first test of the 2007 season.    The Pirates swept WW-P North, 5-0, Friday in their first match of the season. Going into it with four new players in the lineup and only one,…

  • Davis, PHS girls off to fast start

    Little Tiger soccer continuing to build By: Bob Nuse Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski Princeton High sophomore Chantal Celestin had an assist as the Little Tigers opened the season with a 5-0 win over Lawrence.    Hannah Davis doesn’t like to think too much about her freshman year with the Princeton High girls’ soccer team.    It…

  • Citizenship class offered

    While the classes are free, students will be expected to purchase a copy of the textbook to practice the material discussed The Latin American Task Force and the Princeton Public Library are co-sponsoring free citizenship classes to prepare immigrants for the Naturalization Interview required as part of the process of becoming a United States Citizen.…

  • GUEST COLUMN

    Time for NJ to visit the salad bar? By: David Knowlton and Bill Dressel    New Jersey is getting fatter.    Obesity rates in our state rose yet again in a new report released August 27 by the Trust for America’s Health (www.healthyamericans.org). It appears that Garden Staters are choosing the Philadelphia cheese steak over the Jersey…

  • Plainsboro library construction project is put out to bid

    The space crunch created by the books is affecting the library’s other operations as well By: Greg Forester    PLAINSBORO — Township officials have put the construction portion of the library project out to bid as they move ahead with the plan to bring a bigger and better library to the Plainsboro Village Center in 2009.…

  • St. Paul’s has a crowded house; major expansion planned

       EAST WINDSOR — St. Paul’s Lutheran Church has a good problem — too many people attending services.    ”When a church gets to 75 to 80 percent capacity, a visitor will consider it full and too crowded,” said Paul Prior, co-chairman of the church’s building committee.    Pastor James Egan feels the same way.    ”It gets uncomfortable…

  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Sept. 11

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Sept. 11 Greenview condos merit opposition To the editor: I want to respond to last Friday’s article: "Hillier touts changes in Greenview condos." The developer claims his project would "improve the neighborhood." In fact it has already begun to degrade it.    Hillier’s first "improvement" was to evict 2 long-term residents of…

  • Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007

    Brian F. Lauter    Brian F. Lauter, 57, of Hopewell Township died Monday at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Trenton, he was a Hopewell area resident most of his life.    A 1968 graduate of Hopewell Valley Central High School and a graduate of Rider College, he was employed as chief of asbestos control…