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  • Monroe softball team’s dream season hits the Wall

    Falcons drop 6-5 heart-breaker to No. 3 team in the state in CJ III championship game By: Sean Richards     Even in defeat, the Monroe Township High School softball team was both impressive and heroic.    Taking on highly-ranked Wall Township in the championship game of the Central Jersey Group III Tournament Friday, Monroe’s amazing season…

  • Princeton Area League of Women Voters sets annual meeting

       The 75th annual meeting of the League of Women Voters of the Princeton Area will be held June 14 at Sunny Gardens Restaurant in West Windsor from noon to 2 p.m.    Marie Curtis, a league lobbyist on environmental issues and a founder and board member of Earth Share New Jersey will be the featured speaker.…

  • Ready to Bloom Again

    Nineties hitmakers the Gin Blossoms are reunited with a tour and new album, and will bring their rock/jangle sound to Princeton’s June Fete. By: Susan Van Dongen    Like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, the Gin Blossoms thought they had broken up for good but just couldn’t resist getting back together. After huge successes with ’90s…

  • Virginia M. Tennis

       Virginia "Ginny" M. Tennis, 75, of Lodi, Calif., a one-time resident of Hopewell Township, died May 2 at Kaiser Foundation Hospital, South Sacramento, Calif.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mrs. Tennis graduated from Bishop McDonald High School, Brooklyn, N.Y.    While a resident of Hopewell Township, she was an active member of the Hopewell Valley League of…

  • MHS earns chance for third title

    Cougars top Ridge to reach Group III lax final By: Justin Feil    By the time Ridge High put a new defender on Kevin Hover, it was too late.    The Montgomery High School junior scored his fourth and fifth goals of the game to snap a 7-7 tie, and the Cougars were never tied again in…

  • John Wojnas, Jr.

       John R. Wojnas Jr., 69, died Thursday, May 24, at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold.    Born and raised in Bayonne, he was an Eagle Scout in his local Boy Scout Troop 19. He graduated from the Newark College of Engineering (NJIT) with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and later studied at and received a…

  • Inmate presents a powerful message

    Witherspoon Middle School students hear anti-gang program By: Nick Norlen    Jail, jury, or dead.    So goes the lecture about what could happen if you join a gang.    And while middle-schoolers hear plenty about the dangers of joining gangs, they rarely hear it from a former gang member.    On Thursday, students at John Witherspoon Middle School…

  • Final report clears park; survey of deed transfers confirms original findings

    By: Bill Greenwood    MONROE — The Bethel Mission is not located on a 35-acre parcel of Thompson Park where the Board of Education wants to build a new high school, according to the final results of an archaeological survey on the parcel that also included historical research.    According to a report prepared by Richard Grubb…

  • Monroe softball team’s dream season hits the Wall

    Falcons drop 6-5 heart-breaker to state’s No. 3 team in CJ III championship game By: Sean Richards     Even in defeat, the Monroe Township High School softball team was both impressive and heroic.    Taking on highly-ranked Wall Township in the championship game of the Central Jersey Group III Tournament Friday, Monroe’s amazing season and bid…