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  • School board to draft drug test policy

    But looming changes to state law may force later rewriting By:Eileen Oldfield    Despite pending state legislation that could change laws on conducting random drug tests, the Board of Education approved a plan to draft a random drug test policy last week.    The move came despite objections from board members Frank Blandino and John Donnadio who…

  • Bicyclists raising money for MS society

    Team Tia ready for Hops to Hops Bike Tour By:Jason Lockhart    A group of local bicyclists is gearing up to participate in the 40-mile National Multiple Sclerosis Society Hops to Hops Bike Tour set for Sept. 9.    The tour begins at 8:30 a.m. and completes a circuit through the rolling hills near Lambertville, before returning…

  • Column: New field a year away

    Princeton soccer doing it right way By: Bob Nuse    The Princeton University men’s soccer team will open its season tonight against Loyola (Md.), which is nothing new since they’ve started the season against the Greyhounds nine years in a row.    What will be different for the Tigers will be the venue, as they will play…

  • Charter panel sets September meetings
  • Greenview condos? Foes emerge early

    Charmed by Hillier, but not his plan By: Nick Norlen    Despite his intention to simply gather neighborhood input about the plan, Architect J. Robert Hillier’s preliminary meetings with residents about his proposed condominium project on Greenview Avenue in Princeton Borough have left several of the nearby homeowners ready to oppose the plan even before it…

  • Giordano probe continues; some turn to Web

    On Internet sites, people chronicle, read about Hightstown woman’s disappearance. By: Matt Chiappardi and Vic Monaco    As the probe into the disappearance Amy Giordano of Hightstown moved into its third month, talks apparently continued between the Mercer County prosecutor’s office and the lawyer representing the father of Ms. Giordano’s abandoned baby.    But perhaps just as…

  • On a wave of independence

    Surf camp offers multifaceted therapy for autistic youngster. By: Matt Chiappardi    Little Surfer, little one    Made my heart come all undone    HIGHTSTOWN — For some people, surfing is a far-off venture they’ve only heard about in a Beach Boys song.    For 6-year-old Emily Fiordland, it was not only a special adventure, but a powerful therapeutic…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Matrix shows flaws in state law

    By:    Round one has gone to the residents.    But that does not mean they’ve won the boxing match.    The South Brunswick Planning Board earlier this month denied an application from the Matrix Development Group to build a build a 744,000-square-foot warehouse at the northwest corner of Route 130 and Friendship Road. The board was concerned…

  • Cursed by the Fukú

    Author Junot Diaz draws on his experience as a Dominican-American growing up in New Jersey. By: Hank Kalet JUNOT DIAZ    Junot Diaz will always consider New Jersey home. The 38-year-old fiction writer and fiction-writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology may split his time between New York City and Boston, but he says he is…