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  • Prom dress giveaway slated for April 14

       To support and encourage an affordable and safe prom season, the Princeton Alcohol & Drug Alliance and Corner House Counseling Center invites all Princeton-area high school students to select one dress — at no cost — from a variety of donated new or gently used dresses and gowns at the first-ever "Be Beautiful, Be Smart,…

  • Monroe board hopefuls talk about plans for a new high school

    The seven candidates for the Board of Education discuss the propose high school, the land swap and how the district should plug a $36 million gap in funding. By: Bill Greenwood    MONROE — Most candidates for school board support building a new high school on a 35-acre parcel in Thompson Park, while three others are…

  • Post People

    South Brunswick High School coach Joe Dougherty will be inducted into the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame Class of 2007 on April 1.     A wrestling and girls’ gymnastics coach, Mr. Dougherty has won several championships as the high school’s wrestling coach. * * *     Sabrina Teekah, an interior designer from…

  • WW-P school budget passes with unanimous vote

    Taxes to rise in West Windsor, fall slightly in Plainsboro By: Nick Norlen    PLAINSBORO — Despite a 4.3-percent increase, the 2007 West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District budget was passed without a single public comment Tuesday.    The Board of Education voted 9-0 to adopt the budget in the amount of $147,155,853 — an increase of $6.1…

  • WEB UPDATESchool district granted $2M cap allowance

    Board adopts budget that would save 22 jobs, subvarsity sports. By: Dick Brinster    HIGHTSTOWN — The East Windsor Regional School District has been granted a $2 million tax revenue cap allowance from the state, and the school board adopted a $77.4 million budget Thursday night that would save 22 of about 50 jeopardized jobs along…

  • Civil War comes to life in Cranbury

    nbsp;  A group of Civil War re-enactors will pitch tents and demonstrate drills Saturday in Village Park. By: Lacey Korevec    Muskets will fire this weekend at Village Park.    A group of Civil War re-enactors will pitch tents and demonstrate drills Saturday, providing Cranbury residents with a chance to see what life was like in 1862 for…

  • Births

    A baby boy was born to Krista and Jeffrey Stefanisko, of Cranbury, on March 5 at the University Medical Center in Princeton. * * *     A baby girl was born to Christine Pochick-Meneses and Daniel Meneses Morales, of Cranbury, on March 14 at the University Medical Center in Princeton. * * *     A…

  • Noted expedition leader to talk at university on African rivers

       Pasquale Scaturro, the leader of the Nile First Descent Expedition, will deliver the Spencer Trask lecture 4 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in Friend Center 101 on the Princeton University campus.    The lecture, "The Exploration of the Great Rivers of Africa," is sponsored jointly by the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in Firestone Library…

  • Monroe golf team has some talent to rebuild with

    By: David Gurney    For Monroe Township High School golf coach Pete LoPresti, there was a price to pay for last year’s success — gone are many of the senior leaders that helped propel the squad to a 14-4 mark.    Now comes the hard part for LoPresti and company — rebuilding.    But the talent pool isn’t…