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  • HHS boys’ track advance 4 to Groups

    By: Sean Moylan    A good Hightstown High boys’ varsity track and field season got a whole lot better at this past weekend’s NJSIAA Group III Central Jersey Sectional Championship at Monmouth Regional High.    "I was really pleased. We scored 17 points and placed 10th overall out of 19 teams," said Jim Firtek, the head coach…

  • Elm Court’s new addition named for Harriet Bryan

       More than 10 years after Princeton Community Housing first began thinking about an addition to Elm Court, its affordable senior housing facility on Elm Road in Princeton Borough, this dream has become a reality.    Harriet Bryan House, with 67 apartments, became the newest addition to PCH’s housing program with the official ribbon-cutting last month.    The…

  • Reveries upon the plaza

    Slices of life at Princeton’s newest public gathering place By: Carolyn Foote Edelmann    Am I the last resident to surrender to timeless time in Princeton’s new plaza? Whenever I cross it, en route to bookish events, I see it as our own Piazza San Marco. Without the gondolas, of course. And, mercifully so far, without…

  • Letters to the editor

    Monroe library is getting better To the editor:     When it comes to the Monroe Township Library, it is a matter of a great facility getting even better. When the library opened in 1989, we had 4,000 square feet of space, and today we have 21,000 square feet, and we are filled to capacity.    Thanks…

  • It was a classic heart-breaker for Princeton

    By: Justin Feil    In the midst of Tuesday’s Group II semifinal at West Morris Central, the Princeton High School coaching staff agreed that they were in a real classic.    It didn’t make it any easier to take, however, when the Little Tigers lost, 9-8, to the No. 1 seed on a goal with 16 seconds…

  • Less housing among options for transit village plan

    Hillier Architecture prepares for various approaches By: Greg Forester    WEST WINDSOR — Representatives from Hillier Architecture plan to unveil variations on plans for the West Windsor Transit Village on Monday, which officials hope could satisfy residents’ requests for reduced density.    While previous plans had as many as 1,000 dwellings in the transit village, the variations…

  • Police run for a cause; officers ready to pick up Special Olympics torch

    By: Lacey Korevec    Special Olympics New Jersey is an important cause for the Cranbury Police Department, but for one officer, his desire to raise awareness and money for the program is personal.    The cause hits home for Patrol Officer Matthew Schneider, whose younger sister, Marie, is a Special Olympics athlete. Though she’s classified with a…

  • Fueling a gas-tax debate

    Low gas tax in NJ allows fuel to be much cheaper than other states. By: Hank Kalet    I gassed up my car on Route 1 on Sunday and was pleasantly surprised.    It cost me just $47 — at $2.89 a gallon.    I’m not being sarcastic. Having spent a week in North Carolina — where some…

  • Barry Adams Barclay

       Barry Adams Barclay, 62, of Cranbury, died Monday, May 28, at home surrounded by his family after a courageous battle with cancer.    Born in Princeton, he was a lifelong resident of Cranbury.    He attended Cranbury School and Lawrenceville Prep and graduated from Cornell University.    He was an aerospace engineer for the U.S. Navy, having worked…