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  • Aid leaves tax hike at 10.79%; state funding declining

    By: Bill Greenwood    JAMESBURG — The borough’s proposed 2007 municipal budget will include a 10.79 percent tax-rate hike now that the state Department of Community Affairs has released special aid figures.    The DCA announced Tuesday that Jamesburg would receive $100,000 in extraordinary aid — a special aid category distributed to towns with limited tax bases…

  • It’s not a chimney, but we’ll call it home

    Young raccoons released to the wilds by animal control officer By: Katie Wagner    After three months of nursing and feeding at the Mercer County Wildlife Center, a group of young raccoons that had been living in the chimneys of two Princeton houses have been returned to the wild.    Last week, Princeton Health Department Animal Control…

  • Mary Greer

       Mary Greer, 86, a longtime resident of The Elms of Cranbury, died Thursday, July 19.    Graveside services were held Wednesday, July 25, in Westminster Cemetery, Cranbury. Arrangements were under the direction of A.S. Cole Son & Co. Funeral Home, Cranbury.

  • State’s aid to borough means 12-cent tax hike

    By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN – The borough got a nice, big gift this week.    It just wasn’t what it was hoping for.    The state awarded Hightstown $150,000 in extraordinary aid — $50,000 less than last year and far less than this year’s borough request of $380,000.    The result: a 12-cent increase in the local purpose…

  • Organist, artist combine to create a musical milestone

    Harpsichord complete and ready for its first performance By: Bill Greenwood    Ever since the late 1990s, Donovan Klotzbeacher has been a fan of Louise Tracy’s art, but not in the traditional sense.    Ms. Tracy, of Rue Road in Monroe, had been urged by her husband, Robert, to create a series of colored-pencil drawings of tropical…

  • New soccer stadium under way on PU campus

    Construction begins on $8.4 million project    Princeton University has begun construction of a new, state-of-the-art soccer stadium, made possible through a recent $8.4 million fundraising effort by alumni and friends of Princeton soccer.    The new facility, slated to open for the 2008 season, will be named Roberts Stadium in honor of Thomas S. Roberts, a…

  • One big inning ends WW-P Legion year

    Loss in states caps successful season By: Bob Nuse    WEST DEPTFORD — In time, the memory of one bad inning will fade away and the West Windsor-Plainsboro American Legion baseball team will remember fondly its just completed incredible season.    WW-P came within a few innings of getting a chance to play for a berth in…

  • Geza Joseph Conrad

       Geza Joseph Konrad, 88, of Monroe, died Wednesday, July 25, at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in New Brunswick, he was a longtime resident of Monroe. He attended Rutgers University before he entered the Army during World War II. He was a Pepperidge Farms franchise owner for many years. After his retirement in…

  • Privatizing public spaces

    Community boards have too much power By: Hank Kalet    "Expressive exercises, especially those bearing upon real and legitimate community issues, should not be silenced or subject to undue limitation because of changes in residential relationships, such as where lifestyle issues are governed or administered by community associations in addition to being regulated by governmental entities."…