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  • Ladd doubles home winning runs for Rams

    By: Sean Moylan    One of the main problems the Hightstown High girls’ varsity softball team had last season was coming up with clutch hits in tough situations.    Well, this season, the Rams corrected that little problem in a hurry. Because Emily Ladd’s two-run double in the bottom of the seventh was not only the biggest…

  • Montgomery school candidates present positions

    Five seek three seats on board By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — With the school board and budget vote less than a week away, the Montgomery High School PTA held a "Meet the Candidates" forum last week to introduce the candidates and their positions to the Montgomery public.    Five candidates filed to run for the three…

  • Teifer, PHS take golf invitational

    Little Tigers top field at CVCC By: Justin Feil    Peter Teifer and the Princeton High boys’ golf team didn’t quite play the way they wanted in their first event of the 2007 season.    It didn’t take the Little Tigers long to atone for a 10th-place showing at the Palmetto (S.C.) Invitational on Saturday.    Teifer shot…

  • HHS baseball falls to aces

    By: Sean Moylan    The Hightstown High baseball team has only played two games, but it is already starting to grow tired of facing dominating pitchers.    This past Wednesday, Hopewell Valley’s star hurler Shawn Jones threw a two-hitter to beat Hightstown 2-1 in a contest which was played at Moody Park.    Highstown lefty hurler Pedro Yciano…

  • HHS boys’ tennis competitive in setbacks

    By: Sean Moylan    Most of the time a 5-0 match is a just 5-0 match. Then, on very rare occasions, it isn’t. Such was the case this past Tuesday, as Steinert beat the Hightstown High boys’ varsity tennis team 5-0 in what was a very-competitive tennis battle, which featured many great matches.    "We had our…

  • June primary challenge

    Monroe Dems face contest By: Bill Greenwood    Seven candidates in Monroe and eight candidates in Jamesburg have filed to run in primary elections June 5.    In both towns, voters will elect a mayor and fill two, three-year seats each on the township and borough councils. Jamesburg voters also will select someone to fill the final…

  • Gathering to learn life skills

    New GMB club brings girls together By: Matthew Rick JAMESBURG — A classroom in Grace M. Breckwedel bustled with activity two weeks ago as girls knitted scarves and chatted about plans for upcoming activities.     "I really like the knitting," said eighth-grader Courtney Hammond as she put the finishing touches on her own brightly colored…

  • Second opinion eyed on water tower

    By: Cara Latham    ROOSEVELT — The Borough Council’s Finance Committee has recommended the hiring of a structural engineer to examine the borough water tower to see if it can be repaired.    A recent inspection of the water tower rated the 85,000-gallon tank, which is about 70 years old, as poor. In addition, the borough’s average…

  • Still life

    Ellie Wyeth renews her vision with an Umbrian sabbatical By: Pat Summers    With a pretty little teapot and two cups, she walks out the kitchen door and down a few steps toward her studio across the yard. There’s just enough bird sound and soft color all around to promise spring. Emma, one of her two…