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  • Zheng lifts PHS tennis from new spot

    Junior looking for state tournament run By: Bob Nuse    David Zheng could have sulked.    Instead he’s seized an opportunity to help make the Princeton High boys’ tennis team pretty good this season.    After going 12-3 as the Little Tigers’ second singles player a year ago, Zheng finds himself playing a notch down the ladder at…

  • Letters to the editor

    Criticism of Bolandi unfounded, ugly To the editor:     I felt compelled to write in response to the ugly, mean-spirited and uncalled-for letter that appeared in last week’s newspaper.    I don’t know Mr. Schemelia, and can’t recall ever seeing him at a board meeting. What I do know is that he has very little understanding…

  • Physics class lab students at PU find radon in two buildings

    Testing of sites to continue By: Courtney Gross    A class assignment educated more than Princeton University students this week, when levels of the radioactive gas radon were found in the basements of two buildings on campus.    Although preliminary data has not raised any alarms or cause for concern on campus, university officials said, further testing…

  • Nothing to fear in West Windsor but fear itself

    GUEST OPINION Dianne Brake    Is a municipality courting disaster if it tries to turn its strip commercial development and parking lots into a transit village like the one proposed in West Windsor? Not if you consider the facts.    The Regional Planning Partnership has spent almost 40 years working on land use issues, and we have…

  • OBITUARIES, May 4, 2007

    Simeon F. Moss, Julian E. Winiarski, Helen Bashiti Simeon F. Moss Career in education KINGSTON — Simeon Francis Moss died Sunday at Merwick Rehab Hospital and Nursing Care. He was 87    Born in Princeton, he had a long career in education, ranging from teacher in Princeton to school-district superintendent and college administrator.    He received his…

  • Eden Institute facility heavily damaged by flood

    Employment center suffers major setback By: Nick Norlen    WEST WINDSOR — While the impact of last month’s nor’easter is now just a bad memory for many in Mercer County, it has remained a nightmare for the Eden Family of Services.    Eden’s Briggs Center, which runs an employment program for autistic adults, took on approximately four…

  • Peddie softball emerges tough week with 3 wins

    By: John Chester    Despite its first loss of the season, the Peddie softball team posted another solid week, winning three games to improve to 10-1 (7-0 in the Mid-Atlantic Prep League).    Peddie’s one loss came to Steinert back on April 26. Steinert is ranked 7th in the state by The Star-Ledger.    "How you get back…

  • Obituaries

    Joseph "Ron" Reid    EAST WINDSOR — Joseph "Ron" Reid, 72, died Saturday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Hamilton.    Born in Detroit, Mr. Reid moved to Sturgis, Mich., where he grew up and graduated from Sturgis High School. He attended the University of Michigan and graduated cum laude with a bachelor’ degree in journalism in…

  • Latest attempt to build senior housing in Princeton under way

    Planning Board begins hearings on 48-unit plan off Mount Lucas Road By: Courtney Gross    In Princeton, senior housing is hard to find, but maybe not for long.    After seven years of litigation, design revisions and criticism from neighbors, a 48-unit age-restricted townhouse development was slated to go before the Regional Planning Board of Princeton for…