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  • Borough sets budget hearing for May 7

    By: Dick Brinster    HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council has set a public hearing for May 7 on a municipal budget that would hike the tax rate by 19 cents, with Administrator Candace Gallagher hoping the increase can be lowered to 2 cents through an infusion of extraordinary state aid.    "We will be applying for $380,000…

  • Tigers push on without head coach

    Players, Levy react to Scott’s exit By: Justin Feil    Joe Scott’s departure from the Princeton University men’s basketball team leaves unfinished business or makes for a fresh start, depending on the source.    One thing is certain, however, and that is that the Tigers want to go forward to erase an 11-17 campaign in 2006-07. They…

  • Hockey Player of the Year

    PHS’ Ryan had knack for scoring goals By: Justin Feil    You’d have to go back almost a decade to find a time when John Ryan wasn’t a scoring machine.    "I wouldn’t say I was scorer when I was 7," said the Princeton High School hockey player. "I wasn’t really a scorer until Pee Wees. When…

  • Ensemble to share love of jazz, blues

    Cranbury Jazz to get bluesy at the Library. By: Lacey Korevec    Cranbury resident Paul Venanzi and his buddies play an unusual version of James Taylor’s "Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight."    "We kind of do it as a blues number," he said. "And it’s not exactly like James Taylor does it. No guitar picking. It’s…

  • From persistence to production: Goal of local man is no big mystery

    By: Cara Latham    EAST WINDSOR — Todd Parker knows more than anyone how important it is not to take "no" for an answer.    After more than a year of making calls, chasing down film producers, and sometimes being turned down, the 31-year-old township resident is finally getting the chance to see his work come to…

  • Guidance on food supplements

    … antioxidants have no effect in extending life span, and too much of certain antioxidants can actually be harmful. By: Connie M. Pfeiffer, PharmD.    Vitamins and supplements have become a multibillion dollar industry in recent years. Many consumers are aging baby boomers who, in their quest to find the fountain of youth, are looking for…

  • Arias at home as a Pirate

    Softball coach loves the game By: Justin Feil    Not much has changed on the West Windsor-Plainsboro South softball field since Nicole Arias graduated in 2001.    There is still a lip into left field. Second base is still a little off and a little crooked. The Pirates have added a fence, but the most notable changes…

  • Letters

    Republicans’ hypocrisy To the editor:    The sheer hypocrisy of the Monroe Republicans has been proven in black and white — in Audrey Cornish’s letter in The Cranbury Press last week.    They want it both ways. They criticize a Board of Education member for owning an investment property in Lumberton, claiming that Amy Speizer’s not a…

  • For quiet Montgomery RR crossings, trains won’t blow their own horns

    Township joins county effort to win grant to reconstruct crossings to make them safer and quieter By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — Somerset County is seeking funding to make train crossings safer and quieter, a move that could please Montgomery residents.    After a show of support from several municipalities including Montgomery, Somerset County has applied for…