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  • Case against four PHS students is dropped

    Board of Education to continue review of police-school relation policy By: Courtney Gross    As the Princeton Regional Board of Education prepares to review and possibly approve a policy that would more strictly regulate police investigations on school property, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office has dropped charges against four Princeton High School students whose arrests brought…

  • Going batty for bird houses

    Area provides plenty of resources for bird lovers By: Carolyn Foote Edelmann    A popular practice of backyard bird watchers is the installation of bird houses, which encourage nesting and roosting wrens and bluebirds — and bats, too, which are not birds, of course, but mammals.    In either case, the presence of these winged wonders is…

  • Police recover stolen engine

    Race car engine leads to police charges for local, area men By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — A routine traffic stop last week resulted in the recovery of a stolen race car engine valued at $25,000.    Kentheoti Cross, 37, of Prospect Plains Road in Monroe, and Gerald Hunt, 45, of McDermott Street in Freehold Borough, were…

  • Bus to leave Princeton for war protest in Washington

       The Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action has reserved a bus to leave Princeton on Jan. 27 to travel to the Mass Demonstration Against the Iraq War in Washington.    The deadline for reservations is Monday. Information and reservations can be obtained by visiting www.peacecoalition.org or calling (609) 924-5022.    A Lobby Day is planned for Jan. 29…

  • Regionalization to be reviewed

    League of Women Voters to take a closer look By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — The League of Women Voters of Monroe Township will look closer at school regionalization Monday.    The league’s Education Committee has been researching the topic for almost two years, and will present its findings at the meeting, which will be held 1…

  • Wehrhan sets Peddie school records in shot put

    By: Sean Moylan    In last Friday’s 59-26 home win over Hill, when Sarah Wehrhan tossed the shot put 37 feet 7 inches and shattered a 21-year-old Peddie girls’ indoor track and field school record, it looked as the great Peddie thrower’s historic hurl would be celebrated and talked about for weeks to come.    Well, that…

  • Young Monroe endures growing pains, misfortune at Group III Relays

    By: Sean Richards    So far, it’s just not really coming together for the very young and inexperienced Monroe Township High School winter track team.    Monroe’s latest action found the Vikings taking part at the NJSIAA Group III Indoor Relays at the Jersey City Armory over the weekend.    The only Monroe entry to place was the…

  • West Windsor Gardens development talks extended

    More meetings expected on 352-unit development By: Molly Petrilla    WEST WINDSOR — Discussion regarding a proposed townhouse development will likely be extended for at least a month, the Planning Board concluded at a meeting Wednesday night.    According to Planning Board President Marvin Gardner, the board will wait until its meeting Feb. 21 or later to…

  • Ruiz gives Knights presence in paint

    WW-P North girls top ND hoops By: Bob Nuse    On most basketball teams, Kathy Ruiz wouldn’t be asked to make her presence felt in the paint.    But for the West Windsor-Plainsboro North girls’ basketball team, the 5-foot-7 Ruiz doesn’t have much of a choice.    "We don’t have that much height to work with, so we…