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  • WW train station redevelopment area gets initial funding after long debate

    Money to pay planner comes after majority of council rejects resolution on "guiding principles" By: Molly Petrilla    WEST WINDSOR — Though the Township Council passed a bond ordinance Monday night that brings the township one step closer to realizing its plans for the 350-acre train station-area redevelopment site, things weren’t as simple as the 4-0…

  • Keller takes over as MHS boys’ swim coach

    Former assistant inherits new post By: Justin Feil    When Montgomery High School decided to expand its swimming program coaching staff, it didn’t have to go far to find a head coach for the boys’ team.    Noelle Keller already knew the ins and outs of coaching. As an assistant to MHS head coach Claire Scarpa, Keller…

  • For Mother Earth

    "Slow food" advocates attend Italy’s "Terra Madre" By: John Dunphy    The adventures of three local foodies last month included a transcontinental flight, falling asleep in a vineyard at midnight, and a truck nearly running their rented Ford Fiesta off the road.    Still, Mikey Azzara, David Zaback and Gabriele Carbone, the three representatives of The Community…

  • Princeton planners to hear PU’s master plan presentation

    By: Courtney Gross    Princeton University will present its master plan project before the Regional Planning Board of Princeton on Thursday.    The meeting, at Township Hall at 7:30 p.m., will include scale models that represent current and proposed buildings intended to transform the campus into study-specific neighborhoods. The university gave a similar presentation for students, staff…

  • Leonard W. Jones

       Leonard W. Jones, 89, of Ewing Township died Sunday at the Capital Health System, Fuld Campus.    Born in Trenton, he was a lifelong area resident. He retired from Keystone Steel in Trenton and the Ewing-Lawrence Sewerage Authority.    An Army veteran of World War II, he was a life member of the Prospect Heights Fire Company…

  • Marguerite Lothstein

       Marguerite Stotter Lothstein, 90, died Friday at her residence in Hopewell Township.    Born in Jersey City and raised in South River, she was a former resident of New Brunswick, Union and Manalapan.    She was a graduate of South River High School and the New Jersey College for Women (later Douglass College), where she majored in…

  • Turnpike officially cancels Route 92 project

    The N.J. Turnpike Authority has withdrawn applications for wetlands permits for the proposed toll road. By: Joseph Harvie    After years of debates, studies and engineering reports, the N.J. Turnpike Authority has officially canceled the proposed Route 92 project.    The N.J. Turnpike Authority, in a Dec. 1 letter to the state Department of Environmental Protection, said…

  • Home Sweet Home

    Peddler’s Village’s gingerbread house display offers a feast for the eyes. By: Jessica Loughery    Through the woods little Hansel and Gretel wandered until they stumbled upon a beautiful and quite tasty-looking structure, the famed gingerbread house.    Somehow, the home of the loathsome and hungry witch, once nibbled on by our young friends, has come to…

  • Spellbound

    Rider University professor Jack Sullivan takes a look at the music in Hitchcock’s films. By: Bob Brown    Who doesn’t know the jagged screech of strings as Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is knifed in the famous Psycho shower scene? Merely to hear those pulsing, discordant jabs is enough to raise the hairs on the nape of…