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  • WW-P high school freshmen charged in school bomb threat

    Two girls face criminal charges after middle school evacuated Friday By: Molly Petrilla    Two West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North freshmen are facing criminal charges following a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of middle-school students from their classrooms for about five hours Friday.    At 6:50 a.m., a Community Middle School student discovered a message, written…

  • PU football can’t overcome errors

    Cornell hands Tigers first loss By: Justin Feil    Game after game, the Princeton University football team had found a way to win, to overcome any mistake with the plays in the end.    For six straight games, even three in which the Tigers had more turnovers and miscues than their opponents did, they had persevered through…

  • OBITUARIES, Oct. 31, 2006

    Samuel E. Nini, Maywood M. Mach, Sue F. Behm Samuel E. Nini State Treasury project manager     Samuel E. Nini of Princeton died Friday at home.    Born in Princeton, he was a lifelong Princeton resident.    He was project manager at the state Department of the Treasury, where his main projects included the Richard J. Hughes…

  • MILESTONES

    Issue of Oct. 31, 2006 FINANCIAL SERVICES    WithumSmith+Brown announced the following promotions in its West Windsor office.    Promoted from managers to senior managers are Lambertville resident Paul Kuhl and Matthew Pribila of Washington Township. Both are members of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Also…

  • MHS football keeps hopes alive

    Cougars top Somerville By: Bob Nuse    Zoran Milich knows all about the tradition of Somerville High football.    Milich played at Somerville and also coached at the school before coming to Montgomery to start the school’s football program.    So the importance of his current team’s 34-21 win over the Pioneers on Friday night isn’t lost on…

  • PU cross country sweeps Heps

    Tigers rule men’s, women’s races By: Justin Feil    Princeton University came away with two Heptagonal cross country titles when it ventured to Van Cortlandt Park on Friday.    It was just the fourth time in Heps history that a school has gone home with both crowns. The Tiger men last won in 1999. The Princeton women…

  • Local historian portrays a Princeton before university’s arrival

    Town had stengths even before the academic invasion By: Ross Kenneth Urken    Wanda Gunning, a historian and chairwoman of the Regional Planning Board of Princeton, mapped out pre-university Princeton in a time-travel speech Thursday evening as part of a celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Princeton University in Princeton.    In taking the audience in the…

  • Leung endures, conquers county boys’ XC

    Pirate junior claims first crown, WW-P North second in race By: Justin Feil    HAMILTON — Fortitudine vincimus.    Famed English adventurer Ernest Shackleton used the family motto, meaning "by endurance we conquer," to christen his ship the Endurance that was part of his historical trip to Antarctica in 1914.    The West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys’ cross country…

  • Mill Street project gets unexpected boost

    A small section needed for an easement on the Stockton street is owned by the New Jersey Water Supply Authority, not the state, so a lease already has been agreed upon. By: Linda Seida    STOCKTON — The drainage improvements and reconstruction work for two-thirds of Mill Street should be completed by the end of the…