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  • Jankoski shot puts South in MCT hoop final

    Pirate boys edge Trenton again By: Bob Nuse    It’s a shot Dan Jankoski has probably taken on the playground hundreds of times. He’s probably dreamed of making it even more often than that.    The clock is running down, his team is trailing by a point in a tournament game, and Jankoski lines up a three-point…

  • Princeton University soccer complex wins approval

    New stadium endorsed by Planning Board By: Courtney Gross    The Regional Planning Board of Princeton has unanimously approved plans for a new soccer stadium at Princeton University.    Proposed for a site between Washington Road and Elm Drive, the new soccer complex will include a practice field with synthetic turf and a game field with natural…

  • Joe Paterno to keynote Princeton Area Community Foundation luncheon

       Joe Paterno, Penn State football coach, will be the keynote speaker at "Giving Is a Ball — Pass It On!," the 2007 Princeton Area Community Foundation Luncheon, which will take place Monday, March 12, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Princeton in West Windsor.    Honorary luncheon chairman is PASCF associate William A.…

  • Plainsboro library to mark Year of the Pig

    Saturday celebration to include music, dance, demonstrations and games By: Molly Petrilla    PLAINSBORO — The library will welcome the Chinese Year of the Pig on Saturday with an afternoon celebration featuring music, dance, demonstrations and games.    At 1 p.m., the world champion of Go — a strategy game that involves placing black and white stones…

  • PU hoops sees progress, earns Ivy split

    Koncz, Steuerer spark Tigers By: Bob Nuse    It’s not often that the Princeton University men’s basketball team finds itself officially eliminated from the Ivy League race with six games to go.    But this isn’t a typical Ivy League season for the Tigers.    Instead of worrying about what’s happening with the top teams in the conference,…

  • Borough police add to ranks

    Three new officers, two Princeton natives, join force By: Courtney Gross    The Princeton Borough Police Department has added three new officers to its ranks, two of whom were born and bred in Princeton.    The patrolmen, Leonard Thomas, Garrett Brown and William Matelski Jr., graduated from the Cape May County Police Academy in late January and…

  • Three from North advance to regions

    Runner-up Rotella leads wrestlers By: Ken Weingartner    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — This is not the path Jeff Rotella hoped to follow to the state wrestling tournament, but the road still leads forward.    At this time of year, that’s really all that matters.    Rotella, the No. 1 seed in Saturday’s District 20 wrestling tournament at South Brunswick,…

  • TrainLink shuttle service threatened by funding falloff

    Forrestal Center link to Princeton Junction train station loses sponsors By: Molly Petrilla    PLAINSBORO — Come May, the TrainLink shuttle that has connected employees in the Forrestal Center campus with the Princeton Junction train station for 17 years could go out of service.    The shuttle’s primary source of funding, Princeton Forrestal Center, has announced plans…

  • Letters to the Editor, Feb. 20

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Feb. 20 Reject tyranny of unelected few To the editor: Imagine being inside your own home, going about your business, when one day a postcard shows up in the mail … something about a historic district. You set it aside, not really sure what it is about … then six months…