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  • Editorial

    Council should look next door for fiscal help    Hightstown Borough Councilman Patrick Thompson has called for the formation of a group of former borough leaders and local businessmen to study the borough’s spending and specifically how to prevent taxes and fees from continuing to climb. And he says potential cuts in staff and services must…

  • Map to highlight parks, open space

    By: Purvi Desai    MILLSTONE — Township officials are producing a map highlighting streets, open space and parks that is expected to be mailed to residents in March 2007.    "We discussed at our open space meetings what projects we wanted to take on in 2007," said Cory Wingerter, the Open Space and Farmland Preservation Council’s vice…

  • New policy proposed for school-police relations

    Princeton school board to consider changes in wake of arrest of four students in September By: Jake Uitti    In reaction to concerns raised by Princeton Regional Board of Education members and residents regarding the memorandum of agreement between Princeton Regional Schools, local police departments and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, a special ad hoc committee…

  • Florence Cohen

       Florence A. Cohen, 46, of Jamesburg, died Friday, Dec. 15, at home.    Born in East Orange, she lived in Parlin for many years before moving to Jamesburg over 17 years ago.    Ms. Cohen graduated from Charles E. Gregory School of Nursing in Perth Amboy, in 1981 and worked as a registered nurse for the past…

  • AHS wrestlers place second in Ewing tourney

    K. Bachmann, D. Bachmann, Ferro, Vahabi win their weight classes By: Kyle Moylan    ÿ8AHSÿEvery team dreams about having a breakout season. The Allentown High School wrestling team is one that has worked hard and progressively earned it.    "We can be the team that Hightstown was last year," Allentown Coach Bob Mussari said. "Hightstown started with…

  • NEHS boys’ basketball fights for first win

    By: Kyle Moylan    Playing two very different teams, the New Egypt High School boys’ basketball squad came away with two very different results in the opening week of play.    In a grinding defensive game, New Egypt was able to fight off Florence for a 32-28 win at home Friday night.    "This was kind of a…

  • The dangerous cult of thinness

    Both anorexics and bulimics overvalue body thinness. At the same time, they have an exaggerated fear of fatness. By: Russell Marx, M.D.    Everywhere you look, the ideal of thinness, especially for women, is promoted as the ultimate goal.    Many people have been persuaded into accepting an artificial, impractical, even unhealthy image of the human form.…

  • Deadline for Four Seasons

    Committee to issue ultimatum to get development repairs done By: Lacey Korevec    Township officials said Monday that they plan to give K. Hovnanian, developer of the Four Seasons on Old Trenton Road, an ultimatum to finish repairs and construction.    The township will send a letter to the developer asking for a schedule of maintenance plans…

  • Residents sue to halt warehouse

    By: Purvi Desai    UPPER FREEHOLD — A neighborhood organization is suing the Planning Board and a developer in an attempt to reverse board approval of a warehouse on Meirs Road.    The Meirs Road Residents Against Warehousing filed suit Dec. 13 in Monmouth County state Superior Court against the Planning Board and JAC Raw Land Co.,…