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  • Gonna Let it Shine

    Odetta won’t stop singing for human rights until the world is a perfect place. By: Susan Van Dongen    Even fictional beatniks have praised Odetta, named "the queen of American folk music" by Martin Luther King Jr.    There’s a funny scene in the John Waters movie Hairspray where the "hair hopping" teenagers are running from their…

  • Future looking bright after a strong sesaon

    Falcons lose just three from 12-7 team By: Ron Parent    For the past two seasons, the Monroe Township High School girls soccer team fielded a club with relatively few seniors yet still achieved considerable success, going 11-6-1 in 2005 and 12-7 in its recently-completed 2006 campaign, finishing third in the highly competitive eight-team Greater Middlesex…

  • Peace type

    He quietly strives for a better world By: Cara Latham    ROOSEVELT — Bob Silverstein has many heroes. Actually he has about 650 heroes, and the list is growing.    From Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to those who might be lesser known like Congressman Dennis Kucinich, he has drawn portraits of them all and placed…

  • Sides talk pact

    Jamesburg teachers, board in negotiations By: Bill Greenwood     JAMESBURG — Negotiations for a new teachers contract are nearing completion, according to a Jamesburg Education Association representative.     Elena Strout, one of two presidents of the Jamesburg Education Association, said the only issue that still needs to be agreed upon is a salary guide. "We…

  • Monroe may OK plan for new light

    Light could be part of road improvements By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — The township is poised to move forward with road improvements and a new traffic light for three roads near The Regency at Monroe on Buckelew Avenue.    The Township Council may approve a three-party agreement Monday with Middlesex County and Toll Brothers to make…

  • Recent HHS graduate dies in car crash

    By: Cara Latham    EAST WINDSOR — A Twin Rivers family is mourning the loss of a young woman whom her sister calls an "angel."    Mary Gabriel, 18, a Hightstown High School graduate, died Sunday in a traffic accident in West Windsor. She would have been 19 years old today.    West Windsor police said Ms. Gabriel…

  • Food pantries are preparing baskets

    Local pantries continue to prepare for holidays By: Stephanie Brown    Local food pantries don’t skip a beat during the winter months so that the families they served don’t either.    After distributing Thanksgiving dinner baskets to needy families last month, Jamesburg and Monroe food pantries have already begun preparing Christmas dinner/toy baskets.    Over 200 families will…

  • HHS swimmers set to open Tuesday

    By: Sean Moylan    There are a lot of excellent athletes on the Hightstown High girls’ varsity swim team.    Unfortunately, for many of the girls on the squad, swimming is not their number one sport.    "We have 36 girls on the swim team. Three of the girls have a little bit of talent (and are terrific…

  • In the darkness of abuse, a beacon of help

    GUEST OPINION, Dec. 1 By: Nancy Snyderman    I grew up in a middle-class community in Northern Indiana — the kind of place where, in the ’60s, children ran in a pack from yard to yard and no one’s parents got a divorce, even those who should have. But even in that idyllic space, I knew…