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  • Board to change private proceedings

    Board of Education must release more details By: Bill Greenwood    MONROE — A Superior Court judge in New Brunswick ruled last week that the Board of Education has to be more specific about why it goes into a closed sessions, which exclude the public.    Superior Court Judge Alexander Waugh Jr. ruled Jan. 24 that the…

  • Talarick twice as nice in conference meet

    MHS senior wins pair, anchors top relay By: Justin Feil    Drew Talarick’s final Somerset County Championship did not go as well as hoped, but his final Skyland Conference Championship couldn’t have been better.    Swimming in his own pool Wednesday, the Montgomery High School senior captured the 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle events, in the process,…

  • His own bench mark

    VanHise takes a judicious look back at years in Municipal Court By: Dick Brinster    HIGHTSTOWN — Retired Municipal Court Judge Marvin VanHise thinks of the first line of justice as the "People’s Court."    "By far, the majority of persons coming in contact with the judiciary have only this experience," said Judge VanHise, who stepped down…

  • University expanding effort to put students in federal jobs

    Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative supported by Robertson Foundation    Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is expanding the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative, a selective scholarship program designed to encourage more of the nation’s top students to pursue careers in the federal government, especially in the field of international…

  • Letters

    Protesting the war To the editor:     Fellow Democrats, where are our voices? Where are the voices of our leaders?    Our autocratic president doesn’t need to invade Iran (for which he would need Congressional approval) he can merely keep provoking that country, escalating the antagonism gradually, until we find ourselves in a regional conflict that…

  • Letters to the Editor, Feb. 2

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Feb. 2 Housing for seniors must go elsewhere To the editor:     "Where Will the Seniors Live?" (The Packet, Jan. 30) properly underscores the problem that Princeton Township has encouraged seniors to believe that housing might become available on Princeton Ridge. But it does a disservice to the community in not…

  • Cop salaries released; council approval near

    Police chief would get about $108,000 By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — Police Chief James Eufemia is in line to earn about $108,000 this year and his officers’ salaries will range from $44,634 to $100,793 once the Borough Council approves the department’s new contract, an action expected next week.    The figures were included in documents released…

  • PHASE THREE by Arnold Bornstein: To our sons and daughters

    How we live affects future generations By: Arnold Bornstein    To all our sons and daughters: We have asked you to inherit a world not of your making, to clean up the mess we leave behind, to succeed in our failures and to live in peace and with goodwill toward others.    We know your struggles, for…

  • Cancer victim raising money to benefit treatment center

    By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — The numbers suggest that Bunny Sacharoff might be wearing her trademark pink bow for a few more years.    But that’s a good thing, considering the alternatives she pondered upon learning from a mammography in 2001 that she had breast cancer.    "My father died of lung and liver cancer when…