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  • Knights win to set up Steinert rematch

    North hockey advances in MCT By: Bob Nuse    Maybe the third time will be different for the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North ice hockey team.    In the Knights first two meetings with Steinert, the results have not been good. First, a 10-0 regular season loss, followed by a 7-1 loss in the Titans Cup on Sunday.…

  • Letters to the Editor, Jan. 26

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Jan. 26 Give truckers incentive to stay on interstates To the editor:     Why, oh why would the savants at state Department of Transportation add routes 27 and 206 to the New Jersey Access Network for trucks? It makes no sense to allow these behemoths on local roads. They know that.…

  • MTHS needs to halt losing streak quickly

    By: David Gurney    He’s not ready to push the panic button just yet.    Yet, Monroe Township High School boys basketball coach Bob Turco knows his team has to snap out of its slide quickly.    Since defeating Spotswood at home on Jan. 6, the Falcons (8-7, 3-5) have dropped four in a row, all to Greater…

  • Donald Glenn Remer

       Donald Glenn Remer, 81, of Lawrenceville died Thursday at Capital Health System, Fuld Campus.    Born in New Hope, Pa., he had been a New Jersey resident for over 75 years. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and served for three years. He enlisted at the age of 17 and was honorably…

  • Hess’ boys clinch spot in playoffs

    By: Sean Moylan    After recording a 47-38 win over an under-rated Princeton team to wrap up a state playoff berth last Friday night at home, the Hightstown High boys’ varsity basketball team lost some of its focus. Hightstown lost a 45-42 decision at Eastern this past Saturday night and a 56-42 home game versus Hamilton…

  • Robber gets 18 years

    Man connected with 2005 crimes receives sentence By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — A state Superior Court judge sentenced Osborne Maloney, 25, of Brooklyn, N.Y., to 18 years in prison last week for his connection to the 2005 robbery and shooting of a Bennett Avenue man.    Superior Court Judge Dennis Nieves ordered Mr. Maloney on Jan.…

  • Everything but the Kitchen Sink

    Second Chance Cinema gears up with 13 films to be screened beginning Feb. 5. By: Elise Nakhnikian    Maybe we ought to call it First Chance Cinema this year, since six of the 13 movies in the Second Chance Cinema lineup never made it to area theaters at all. Still, more than half — like the…

  • Dropping AP tests, courses, focus of talk before Montgomery board

    Scarsdale school superintendent explains his district’s efforts By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Michael McGill, superintendent of the Scarsdale School District in New York, explained to the Montgomery Board of Education on Tuesday what his district has been doing to eliminate a focus on Advanced Placement tests.    Mr. McGill, who has been superintendent for nine years…

  • Peddie swim teams dominate MAPL action

    By: Sean Moylan    If one took a quick glance at the leader’s board at the Mid-Atlantic Prep League swimming championships in Hightstown on Saturday, one might have thought the members of the Peddie varsity swim teams were competing against themselves.    The truth is there was a big turnout for the event. Peddie was just that…