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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…

  • Roebling museum undeterred by stalled redevelopment

    By: Stephanie Prokop    ROEBLING — Even though Preferred Real Estate of Conshohocken, Pa., announced last week it would not to go any further on the proposed $2.5 million deal to redevelop a 170-acre portion of the old Roebling Steel Mill site, the Roebling Historical Society’s plans for the Main Gate Museum are full steam ahead.…

  • Obituaries

    Week of April 12 Marguerite S. Winzinger    BORDENTOWN — Marguerite S. "Margie" Winzinger, 60, died Saturday at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.    She was born in Camden and had resided most of her life in the Bordentown area.    She was an active member of the Hedding United Methodist Church. A graduate of William MacFarland…

  • SCHOOL ELECTIONS 2007

    Voters, hopefuls, budgets ready for Tuesday election By: Rebecca Weltmann    School election campaigns are running in full swing as candidates prepare for the April 17 balloting. With signs posted across the towns, school board candidates share ballot space with many controversial school budgets.    • In the Upper Freehold Regional School District, the school board is asking…