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  • New PDS coach brings winning ways

    Tuckman wants title for Panther boys’ lax By: Justin Feil    Rob Tuckman is no stranger to the Princeton Day School boys’ lacrosse team and no stranger to winning.    For the previous three seasons, Tuckman was an assistant for the Panthers varsity. Tuckman is the new head coach of the Panthers, his first head coaching job…

  • Princeton Packet Girls’ Fencer of the Year

    Singh set standard in freshman season By: Bob Nuse    Rey Gonzalez knew Ambika Singh would be something special as a fencer at the Hun School. But even he could not have expected this kind of freshman season.    "I thought she was pretty good, but I had no way of knowing how she would do," the…

  • Abortion foe to lecture at Princeton University

       Charmaine Yoest, vice president for communications at the Family Research Council, will present a public lecture at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School titled, "How Abortion Harms Women," at 4:30 p.m. April 4 in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.    It is free and open to the public.    The Family Research Council is…

  • Township and borough plan to raise tax rates

    Municipal budgets to be introduced this week By: Courtney Gross    Princeton Township and Princeton Borough are poised to hike their municipal tax rates this year by 6 cents and 5 cents respectively, raising an average homeowner’s municipal tax bill nearly $175 in the borough and close to $300 in the township.    The Township Committee was…

  • New Route 206 bypass plan heartens Montgomery residents

    All parties agree that new road will end in Hillsborough By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — The end of the Route 206-bypass dilemma is in sight for Montgomery residents.    Montgomery Township officials met with representatives of Hillsborough, Somerset County and the New Jersey Department of Transportation Monday to work out the final details of the new…

  • Reading between the lines

    She’s young, attractive and smart — and she says she communicates with the dead By: Michael Redmond    She’s young, attractive, smart, hip, talented and charismatic — and she says that she communicates with the dead. She believes this sincerely, it appears – and it’s pretty certain that the dozens of people who turned out at…

  • Senior transport service in Princeton now avoiding bumps in the road

    Current provider Greater Mercer TMA to bid on one-year contract By: Courtney Gross    After pick-up problems and drop-off difficulties from a previous operator, Princeton’s senior transportation service now seems to be running smoothly.    Currently operated by Greater Mercer Transportation Management Association, or the Greater Mercer TMA, the countywide nonprofit organization has been running Crosstown 62…

  • Montgomery school board works to fix disputed activity fee

    An item of less than 1 percent of the budget gets a huge amount of attention By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — An item amounting to less than 1 percent of the 2007-2008 school budget loomed as the major topic of the Montgomery school board’s final budget hearing Tuesday.    Another revision of the item, a fee…

  • Free cooking classes for cancer survivors offered

       Team Survivor Tri-State, a nonprofit organization that provides free exercise programs, health education and support to women with or recovering from cancer, and The Cancer Project, a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing cancer prevention through education and research, are presenting the Food For Life Cooking Class series, free cooking classes for cancer survivors, beginning Monday,…