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  • PTA’s Women’s Expo to benefit Orchard Hill School

    By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — Women’s Expo and Silent Auction, sponsored by the Orchard Hill Elementary School PTA, will be held at Princeton Airport on Route 206 on Friday.    The event will include wine tasting, vendor shopping, food sampling and a silent auction.    It was moved from Montgomery High School because of alcohol restrictions.    In…

  • Court’s ruling strikes a blow for all citizens

    PACKET EDITORIAL, March 13    As a rule, elected officials — especially those at the local level — do not suffer gadflies gladly.    Just about every town council, township committee, school board or other public body has at least one — the angry citizen who shows up at every meeting, asking pointed questions, sometimes disrupting the…

  • Famous used book sale to begin March 21

    Bryn Mawr-Wellesley event to offer about 75,000 volumes    Forget about the supposed death of reading in the United States. The hordes of eager buyers who will descend on the 76th annual Bryn Mawr-Wellesley Book Sale, beginning March 21 — many arriving in the pre-dawn hours to secure a good place in the line — refute…

  • Fearless Love

    ParkinSong 3 is an evening of acclaimed singer-songwriters performing for Parkinson’s disease research. By: Susan Van Dongen    The Litowitz children — Rob, Deb and Carol — watched sadly as Parkinson’s disease robbed their mother, Selma Litowitz, of her vibrant life, not just her motor skills and mental faculties. Rob was particularly concerned about his father,…

  • South Brunswick title run falls short

    Vikings lose in Group IV finals to the defending champions, Linden.    The South Brunswick High School boys basketball team gave everything it had but came up just short on Sunday, losing the NJSIAA Group IV championship game to Linden, 63-54.    The Vikings, in front of a large and enthusiastic turnout of SBHS fans, trailed 52-38…

  • Josephine J. Bac Tiffenbach

       Josephine J. Bac Tiffenbach, 82, of Hamilton Township died March 8 at the Capital Health System, Fuld Campus.    Born in Trenton, Mrs. Tiffenbach was a lifelong Trenton and Hamilton Township resident. She retired in 1986 after 19 years of service with the State of New Jersey, Department of Personnel.    She was a member of the…

  • HHS ice hockey run stopped in state quarterfinals

    Late goal ends fabulous season for Raiders By: Rudy Brandl    Hillsborough High’s electrifying run in the NJSIAA Public Schools ice hockey tournament ended Saturday night at Codey Arena in West Orange.    The Raiders (17-6-3) were eliminated in the state quarterfinals by Somerset County rival Bridgewater-Raritan in a 3-1 thriller. James Fernandez netted the game-winner with…

  • Ethics changes unveiled

    Seven ordinances aim to make pay-to-play reforms in Monroe. By: Bill Greenwood    MONROE — The Township Council has introduced a package of ordinances that would expand ethics rules in Monroe by tightening disclosure and recusal requirements and limiting campaign contributions from professional firms and developers.    The seven-ordinance package, introduced Monday, would cap political contributions from…

  • Publisher is a hands-on group

    Crumpled Press binds books one at a time. By: Lacey Korevec    In a second-floor apartment on North Main Street, New York City resident Jordan McIntyre knelt in front of an old coffee table to secure the naked body of an unbound book in place with stray pieces of wood and two orange vises.    "We here…