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  • Going mobile

    Hospital provides paramedics By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will staff a crew of two paramedics in the township’s Municipal Plaza at no cost to taxpayers.    The Mobile Intensive Care Unit will be on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to provide advanced emergency medical assistance beginning today…

  • Plainsboro telephone venture subject of history talk

    By: Milly Petrilla    PLAINSBORO — History is calling — will Plainsboro accept the charges?    Township Historical Society Director Robert Yuell is banking on it this Saturday for a presentation titled "The Farmers and Traders Telephone Company," which will take place in the municipal building at 7:30 p.m.    East Windsor Historian John Grover has prepared a…

  • Editorial

    Consolidation legislation is a first step    Perhaps, this year’s special session of the state Legislature may bear fruit after all.    The Joint Committee on Government Consolidation and Shared Services is considering a package of bills that could reduce the number of municipal governments in the state, while empowering counties to take on some administrative functions…

  • Princeton schools to hold gala celebration Oct. 14 to thank community

    After five years of construction and renovation By: Hilary Parker    After five years of construction and renovation made possible by an $81.3 million referendum approved in 2001, Princeton Regional Schools on Oct. 14 will express its gratitude to the community with an activity-filled day of "Celebrations," to be held rain or shine.    "We are delighted…

  • Honors keep coming for Haughton

    By: Sean Moylan    Based on her extraordinary play in field hockey and track and field, Hightstown’s Jessica Haughton can probably go to the college of her choice. Yet even if she decided to never play sports again, her academic accomplishments alone would get Haughton into almost any school of higher learning.    So while Haughton further…

  • Fire prevention starts in the kitchen

    Firefighters are organizing activities to help residents and students be better prepared. By: Donna Lukiw    Hillsborough firefighters have an important tip for residents: Watch what you heat.    That’s the message of this year’s Fire Prevention Week, running Monday through Oct. 13, and to help residents and students be better prepared for fires, the firefighters are…

  • A win-win for Hopewell Valley’s children and future

    GUEST OPINION By David Knowlton    During my four decades of work in health care and public policy at the state and national levels, I have come across no more imperative and alarming an issue than that of childhood obesity.    Consider just one startling fact and you, too, will understand the urgency: The Centers for Disease…

  • Hopewell Valley wins as players start to mesh

    BOYS SOCCER By: Mike Molaro    Ed Gola knew it would take time for his Hopewell Valley Central High School boy’s soccer squad to mesh and find its identity.    It seems that the Bulldogs (6-4) are starting to put the pieces together and rounding into a solid club.    "I expected us to go up and down…

  • Mustangs put on another big show

    RUDE AWAKENING By: Rudy Brandl    I had to see for myself.    There’s been a buzz in Manville about this undefeated football team. They run all over people. They score lots of points. They’re on pace to make the state playoffs for the first time in school history.    I couldn’t take anybody else’s word or believe…