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  • Getting ready for school

    Advice for new kindergartners By: Lacey Korevec    September is more than half a year away, but with kindergarten registration around the corner, teachers say there’s no better time than now for parents to begin preparing their little ones for the transition from preschool to "the big school."    "Start talking about it now," Cranbury School kindergarten…

  • ‘The American Spirit’

    Princeton University Art Museum celebrates tradition By: Christian Kirkpatrick    The Princeton University Art Museum feted a true guest of honor at its annual gala on Saturday — George Washington.    Our first president attended in spirit and image as he smiled down from "George Washington at The Battle of Princeton," which was painted for the trustees…

  • Landmarks group seeks to save historic home on NPDC site

    Fairview farmhouse predated the state facility By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — Montgomery Township has begun the process of deciding the fate of buildings on the recently acquired North Princeton Developmental Center site.    Montgomery Township Landmarks Commission members approved a plan at a special meeting Monday to demolish the nurses’ building, located next to the Village…

  • Princeton Rep has some fun

    Amy Freed’s riotously funny "Beard of Avon" to be brought before audiences By: Michael Redmond    "A rose by any other name" — might not be Shakespeare’s?    That’s the premise, more or less, of "The Beard of Avon" (2001), playwright Amy Freed’s riotously funny take on the Shakespeare authorship controversy, which has been going strong for…

  • New managing editor named at The Packet

    Frederick J. Tuccillo assumed position this week    Frederick J. Tuccillo has been named managing editor of The Princeton Packet.    Mr. Tuccillo, formerly associate editor and a columnist with the Courier-News of Bridgewater and an editor and staff writer at Newsday on Long Island, began his duties at The Packet this week.    Rick Sinding, former managing…

  • Peddie girls’ basketball starts tourneys with one-sided win

    By: Sean Moylan    In the course of just a few minutes, Emily Hyncik and the rest of the top-seeded Peddie Falcons girls’ varsity basketball team gave the Princeton Day School a harsh lesson on why they are going for their 11th straight NJISAA Prep ‘A’ State Tournament championship in a row.    Peddie led PDS 31-5…

  • Report Card shows decline in SAT scores

    By: Dick Brinster    HIGHTSTOWN — Amid extremely encouraging results of skills and knowledge tests of students in the East Windsor Regional School District, the School Report Card recently issued by the state showed a decline in scores on Scholastic Aptitude Tests at Hightstown High School.    The Report Card, which grades schools throughout the state on…

  • Letters to the editor

    Follow through on all-day kindergarten To the editor:     On Feb. 13, 1997, East Windsor and Hightstown voters approved a $10 million referendum for school construction and improvements. he referendum allowed for up to $1 million in maintenance projects and $9 million in capital improvements to East Windsor Regional schools.    On that day 10 years…

  • League looks for players

    Baseball adds special program By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — The Monroe Township Baseball Association and Monroe Township Special Education Parents Association want you to step up to the plate.    Both organizations have worked together to implement a new division this upcoming season for players with mental and physical disabilities between the ages of 4 to…