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  • Schools get the weather bug

    Rooftop stations become a teaching tool By: Hilary Parker    Area residents looking for an up-to-date weather forecast, complete with wind speed and barometric pressure, needn’t look any further than their local school district.    Atop the high school in the Princeton Regional Schools, and on the Village schools in both the Montgomery Township and West Windsor-Plainsboro…

  • Irish theater is feted at Princeton University

    Acclaimed actors, playwrights, directors and scholars join in symposiums, readings, performances By: Jocelyn Hanamirian    Celebrating Irish theater and the donation announced last month of an extensive Irish theater collection to Princeton University’s Firestone Library, the university hosted international theater luminaries this weekend for a symposium titled "Players and the Painted Stage."    Acclaimed actors, playwrights, directors…

  • Communicating from the soul will touch others

    SPEAKING OF COMMUNICATIONSSusan Young    The job of any speaker or writer is to reach beyond the glitz and glitter that’s quite popular in our culture these days, and make a real difference in someone else’s life.    Whether you’re making a short presentation for a team project in your conference room, and several of your colleagues…

  • OBITUARIES, Oct. 17, 2006

    Donald R. Young, Patricia D. Sienkiewicz, Conrad J. Schwoerer, Anne F. Beck, Laura J. Elbeck Donald R. Young Retired from Lenox     Donald Rea Young of Princeton died Friday at University Medical Center at Princeton. He was 86.    Born in Lawrence Township, he was a lifelong resident of Princeton.    He retired from Lenox Inc. in…

  • Hayes sets the tone for MHS girls’ soccer

    Cougars advance to SCT semifinals By: Bob Nuse    As the only senior in the starting lineup for the Montgomery High girls’ soccer team, Shannon Hayes takes the role of leader very seriously.    "I feel really responsible," said Hayes, a center midfielder for the Cougars. "But everyone steps up and helps. It’s not just me. I…

  • Pastel sunset

    In bittersweet move, Triangle is closing its generations-old retail art supplies business to concentrate on commercial digital printing By: Lauren Otis    On one level, it is the end of an era. After 67 years, artists, art students and other craftspeople will not be able to walk into a Triangle art supplies store for their pens,…

  • South football wins third straight

    Pirates top unbeaten Hightstown By: Bob Nuse    HIGHTSTOWN — Each week the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South football team seems to get better and better.    The Pirates have certainly bounced back nicely from a two-game losing streak earlier this season. On Friday night, WW-P South made it three straight wins by topping previously-unbeaten Hightstown, 35-13. In…

  • PU defense does it again

    Tigers set for showdown with Harvard By: Justin Feil    Harvard brings a balanced offense to Princeton Stadium on Saturday.    It better because the Princeton University football team has not treated opposing offenses well this season. The Tigers moved up to first in the Ivy League in scoring defense with a 17-3 win over Brown on…

  • Letters to the Editor, Oct. 17

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Oct. 17 Homeland Security aims at wrong target To the editor:     Recently, the Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency conducted raids on the homes of our Latin American neighbors and friends in this area. Removed and sent to detention centers or prisons to be deported…