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  • Fire budgets and referendum win approval

       Voters in Monroe and Jamesburg elected fire commissioners and approved fire budgets Saturday. By: Bill Greenwood    Voters in Monroe and Jamesburg elected fire commissioners and approved fire budgets Saturday.    Voters in Monroe’s Fire District 1 also approved a referendum to allow the district to acquire land and build a new firehouse not to exceed $4.5…

  • EDITORIAL: Jamesburg board needs more to serve

    EDITORIAL: Community members are needed to run for the borough’s Board of Education.    Frank Tarulli stepped down from the Jamesburg Board of Education recently, leaving another hole to fill on the board.    Jamesburg already was facing difficulties filling its school board seats. As of noon Thursday, just two candidates — incumbents Patrice Faraone and Michael…

  • Letters to the Editor, Feb. 23

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Feb. 23 Eden still considering Forrestal Village site To the editor:    I would like to thank staff writer Molly Petrilla for her Feb. 2 article entitled "Eden Institute Will Seek a New Home." We greatly appreciate The Princeton Packet’s help in getting the word out that Eden is looking for a…

  • Dynamic duo dominates

    Hightstown’s Amponsa, Calamari win district titles By: Sean Moylan    MOUNT HOLLY — Using all of his remaining strength, Kenny Amponsa made the seemingly long journey back over to his Hightstown High coaches and teammates. With one last gasp of energy he threw his muscular 215-pound figure into a padded wall at the Rancocas Valley High…

  • HHS boys’ basketball team earns MCT title

    By: Sean Moylan    There was no big Harlem Globetrotter-like act complete with blind-folded three-point bombs from well beyond midcourt, tomahawk no-look dunks and behind-the-back crazy, yet entertaining, passes.    Yet buckets and buckets of confetti should have been flying in the direction of the Hightstown High boys’ varsity basketball team on Wednesday night as it beat…

  • Collection agency under fire gives presentation to borough

    By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council and Borough Administrator Candace Gallagher listened to a presentation this week from a collection agency that says it can generate much-needed revenue for the borough.    They took no action nor made any recommendations.    They also asked no questions about the company’s problems with a suburban Philadelphia community,…

  • Deadline looms for board

    Only two candidates have filed to run for the four school board seats in Jamesburg. By: Bill Greenwood    JAMESBURG — The school district needs a little help.    With the deadline to file for the school district’s April elections Monday, only two candidates had filed to fill the four seats up for grabs as of Thursday…

  • PHS, South girls swimming advance

    State finals Sunday at TCNJ By: Justin Feil During the regular season, the Princeton High School and West Windsor-Plainsboro High South girls’ swim teams proved they were among the area’s best.    Thursday, the two proved they are among the state’s best as both advanced to their respective public state finals.    The top-seeded Little Tigers advanced…

  • Naming issue of plaza outside Princeton Public Library is rekindled

    Residents lobby to name it in honor of the late Albert E. Hinds By: Courtney Gross    Whether it’s referred to as the space, the square, the plaza, or any other name, most Princeton residents know you’re referring to the common area adjacent to the Princeton Public Library.    But a group of Princeton residents, including the…