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  • Autism takes backseat for mall employee and his customers

    A dedicated Wendy’s worker is matched by dedicated store employees at Quaker Bridge Mall By: Molly Petrilla    LAWRENCE — When he sees his boss with the phone in her hand, Matthew Spain can’t think about much else.    "Patty’s on the phone. Is it a business call, Jo-Jo?" he asks his older sister and job coach,…

  • Princeton Veterans Day ceremony set Saturday

       The Spirit of Princeton Committee will hold the annual Veterans Day ceremony 11 a.m. Saturday at the site of All Veterans Monument at the corner of Nassau and Mercer streets.    Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Brooks Dyer will be the master of ceremony.    Thomas Hartmann, longtime Princeton resident, Rutgers University professor emeritus and decorated World…

  • PU wins on improv play

    Tigers football top Penn in double overtime By: Justin Feil    Early this season, Roger Hughes promised his Princeton University football team would improvise more this season.    Certainly, he imagined most of those plays coming from crafty senior quarterback Jeff Terrell and players such as back-up quarterback and occasional wide receiver Bill Foran, a jitterbug with…

  • Hillier wins West Windsor approval to plan station-area redevelopment

    Mayor’s recommendation endorsed 4-1 By: Molly Petrilla    WEST WINDSOR — A crucial vote unfolded in the municipal building Monday night long before residents headed to the polls.    The Township Council voted 4-1 to approve Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh’s recommendation for Hillier Architecture to plan the township’s 350-acre redevelopment area — which includes the Princeton Junction train…

  • MHS girls reach sectional final

    Cougars come back against upset-minded Brick By: Justin Feil Winning, 5-3, in penalty kicks is one thing.    Winning, 5-4, in regulation is something entirely new to the Montgomery High School girls’ soccer team, which did so against Brick Memorial in the Central Jersey Group IV semifinals Monday.    "I don’t think we’ve ever won a 5-4…

  • Simon vaults to top

    MHS junior sets records on way By: Bob Nuse    Erin Simon knew right away she had landed a very good vault.    She just had to wait a little while to make sure it was a winning vault.    "Everything went right on that vault," said the Montgomery junior, whose score of 9.775 was good enough for…

  • Senate race with national implications highlights voting today

    Polls close at 8 p.m. tonight By: Courtney Gross    From 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. today, New Jersey residents will determine who will be their next U.S. senator, congressional representatives and county and municipal lawmakers — several races that could turn the national political tide — during the 2006 midterm general election.    For U.S. Senate,…

  • OBITUARIES, Nov. 7, 2006

    Emma M. Embley, Louise W. Green, N. Dennis Stafford Jr. Emma M. Embley Lifelong Princeton resident     Emma Marcoline Embley died Saturday at University Medical Center at Princeton. She was 81.    She was a lifelong Princeton resident.    Prior to raising a family, she was employed at Educational Testing Service and Princeton University’s Firestone Library.    She…

  • ELECTION RESULTS

    Results are those currently available and do not reflect absentee ballots. Offical, final totals will be declared in the coming days. Asterisk denotes race winners. Allentown Borough Council: Two three-year terms *Jerry Rovner (R) — 442 *Dan Wimer (R) — 434 Millstone Township Committee: Two three-year terms *Elias Abilheira (R) — 1,533 *Nancy Grbelja (R)…