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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…

  • Breaking News

    Former East Windsor Mayor Barbara Rothstein died Thursday. She had been a township resident the past 37 years. For a full obituary and more on Ms. Rothstein’s extremely interesting life, please turn to this Friday’s edition of the Windsor-Hights Herald.

  • Give This Bird a Chance

    In his first book, Princeton native Andrew Blechman hopes to convince readers to revere, not revile, pigeons. By: Jessica Loughery    Most people, especially city-dwellers, naturally refer to pigeons as nothing more than dirty, disease-ridden flying rats.    But in Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird (Grove, 2006), author and Princeton…

  • Monday, March 26, 2007

    Radcliff W. Van Dyke    Radcliff W. "Dykie" Van Dyke, 81, of Hopewell Township, died at his home on Saturday.    Born in Titusville, he had been a resident of the area all of his life.    A graduate of Hopewell Township Central High School, Class of 1944, he served with the U.S. Army in Korea during the…

  • Township begins search for police captain

    Capt. Robert Roscoe leaves for South Carolina post By:Purvi Desai    The Township Committee met in an executive session last week to begin the search for a replacement for retired Hillsborough Police Capt. Robert Roscoe.    Capt. Roscoe officially retired from the Hillsborough Police Department Feb. 1, after moving to South Carolina with his wife in January.…