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  • Burgeoning Montgomery marching band hitting all the high notes

    Top awards combine with a growing popularity By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Everything has to be perfect for the Montgomery High School Marching Band’s possible last home performance of the season, scheduled to take place tonight during the high school’s final home football game at Cougar Stadium.    With a cold, late October wind blowing across…

  • Teacher upholds the future of Afghan girls

    Princeton native Alison Long takes the measure of Kabul’s education system during teaching stint By: Kristin Boyd    In America, school buildings are made of brick and wood and concrete.    But halfway around the world, in some of Afghanistan’s rural provinces, students attend school on tarps or in tents layered over a mountainside. There are no…

  • OBITUARIES, Oct. 27, 2006

    Karin V. Beurling, Eleanor L. Thoren Karin V. Beurling Research scientist     Karin Vanja Lindblad Beurling of Princeton died Oct. 12 at home after a long illness. She was 86.    Born in Degerfors, Sweden, she completed advanced degrees in chemistry, botany and zoology at the University of Uppsala before emigrating to the United States in…

  • HHS girls’ soccer clinches elusive Valley crown

    By: Sean Moylan    It’s been a record-setting season for the Hightstown High girls’ varsity soccer team, which wrapped up it first Valley title in over a decade with last Thursday’s 4-0 road win over Allentown.    Ify Onochie scored a pair of goals, and Erika Juricic and Brianna Byrne each chipped in with a tally. Tina…

  • Thrift store to open on Mercer St.

    By: Cara Latham    HIGHTSTOWN — Greater Goods has found a home for its thrift store and will be opening it up to the public before the end of the year.    Amanda Porter, director of development for Greater Goods, said the store will open up at 413 Mercer St. in a 3,200-square-foot segment of the Lucas…

  • South girls prove a challenging foe

    Pirates fall to unbeaten Steinert in MCT soccer By: Bob Nuse    Not many teams have given the Steinert High girls’ soccer team a run for its money this season.    But after Wednesday night, West Windsor-Plainsboro South has now done it twice.    The Pirates, who dropped a 1-0 overtime decision to the Spartans during the regular…

  • Subsidized homes available in Princeton Borough, Montgomery

       A Princeton Borough two-bedroom low-income apartment is available for sale, a borough one-bedroom moderate-income apartment is available for rent and three new moderate-income one-bedroom apartments are available to rent in the Blawenburg area of Montgomery Township, according to the Somerset County Coalition on Affordable Housing, which is administering the affordable-housing program.    Applicants must meet income…

  • Additional early-morning express commuter trains set for New York run

       Two new early morning NJ Transit express trains from Trenton to New York will begin service Monday in an effort to add seats during peak-period service.    The trains will depart Princeton Junction at 5:23 a.m. and 5:51 a.m., operate express to Newark and arrive in New York at 6:16 a.m. and 6:44 a.m., respectively.    In…

  • Milton Stoll

       Milton Stoll, 93, of Monroe Village in Monroe, died Monday morning, Oct. 23, at his residence.    Born in Newark, Mr. Stoll resided in the Somerset section of Franklin before moving to Monroe. Mr. Stoll was employed as the traffic manager for Smith & Solomon Trucking Co. of New Brunswick for 42 years before retiring in…