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  • After rainouts, Falcons bracing for daily grind

    SOFTBALL By: Sean Richards    In a year in which the weather so far is proving to be one of the main stories, the Monroe Township High School softball team is still waiting to see just how consistent it will be against the tougher teams on its schedule.    In limited action over the previous week, Monroe…

  • MTHS boys get ‘wake-up call’ at tri-meet

    TRACK & FIELD By: David Gurney    Head coach Frank Bonich has different motivational tactics for his Monroe Township High School boys track squad.    It depends on the magnitude of the meet, the opponent and the situation.    But he used an unusual one when preparing his team for its tri-meet against South Plainfield and Colonia.    "We’re…

  • SBHS tops St. Joe’s to stay unbeaten in dual meets

    TRACK & FIELD By: Sean Richards    As these things go, it was not a very momentous week for the high-powered South Brunswick High School track and field team.    Part of it was the schedule, with the far more significant meets set for later in the season.    The other was the weather, which hasn’t been particularly…

  • Unbeaten Falcons feeling right at home

    GOLF By: David Gurney    A scheduling quirk and course availability has the Monroe Township High School boys golf team playing eight of its first nine matches at home at Forsgate Country Club.    Which makes it all the more imperative, according to head coach Pete LoPresti, that the Falcons take care of business on their home…

  • Vikings crack Top 20

    VOLLEYBALL By: Ken Weingartner    With the match against state-ranked Hillsborough on the line, South Brunswick High boys volleyball coach Steve Dentler suggested Steve Smoke take a safe approach to trying to serve out the win.    Smoke declined, preferring to stick with his jump serve. The result was two easy points for teammate Dan Latinsky to…

  • ‘Lucky’ South now 5-0

    BASEBALL By: James McKeever    We’re two-and-a-half weeks into the high school baseball season and only Mother Nature has been able to defeat South Brunswick.    The rough weather that has kept teams from around the state off the field has had its impact on the Vikings, too. Three of their games have been rained out. The…

  • On the Battlefront

    Titusville author Caroline Seebohm delves into World War I and how it affects the relationship between twins in her second novel. By: Susan Van Dongen (CAROLINE SEEBOHM)    The war in Iraq had yet to begin when Caroline Seebohm started to write her latest novel, The Innocents (Algonquin, $23.95). But the war went full swing as…

  • Letters to the Editor, April 20

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, April 20 Republicans offer change in Princeton To the editor:     We’re heartened by the Packet’s endorsement (April 13) of governance change and competitive democracy, even if offered with a gratuitous swipe at those who actually stand for both—and for whom 45 percent of Township citizens voted in 2005: Princeton Republicans.…

  • West Windsor, Plainsboro voters support school budget

    Incumbents voted back in office; taxation shift approved By: Nick Norlen    Residents of the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District decided Tuesday they liked current school board members and the proposed school budget, but not the current system of school taxation.    District voters re-elected West Windsor incumbents Hemant Marathe and Robert Johnson, the current board president…