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  • WW-P students in walk-to-school effort on Wednesday

    By: Milly Petrilla    Elementary school students throughout the West Windsor-Plainsboro district will hit the streets on Wednesday in honor of International Walk Our Children to School Day.    The event is intended to "create awareness of how walkable a community is and where improvements can be made," Wicoff School Principal Michael Welborn said in a letter…

  • Cook, PDS field hockey sizzling

    Panthers win sixth straight By: Justin Feil    There is every reason to talk confidently, but Emily Cook is much too superstitious to mess up a good thing.    The junior forward has helped the Princeton Day School field hockey team to a 7-1 start. Of course, as one of the returning starters from a team that…

  • Verizon TV bid in Princeton Township awaits state franchise application

    By: Courtney Gross    The Princeton Township Committee has indefinitely suspended an application by Verizon Corp. for municipal consent to provide television services as the company pursues a system-wide franchise application before the state’s Board of Public Utilities.    A township hearing on the application was initially scheduled in July, but Verizon had asked the township to…

  • Justice Virginia A. Long describes Supreme Court workings

    Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce gets an insider’s view By: Lauren Otis    EWING — Serving on the New Jersey Supreme Court is a responsibility which goes far beyond applying relevant law to the case at hand, Associate Justice Virginia A. Long told a luncheon gathering of the general membership of the Mercer Regional Chamber of…

  • Good memories

    Christina Carnevale marks her 105th birthday on Wednesday By: Courtney Gross    During the Great Depression — a decade when many were lucky to put food on their own kitchen tables — Christina Carnevale made sure Princeton residents were never without.    Day after day, just outside the wooden gate surrounding her home on The Great Road,…

  • Ideology of hate is threat to Jews everywhere

    GUEST OPINION, Oct. 3 By: Eitan Paul    Iranian President Ahmoud Ahmadinejad believes that the murder of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust is a great exaggeration. "They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets," he has said. "Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the…

  • Defense dominates for PU

    Tigers stop Columbia, improve to 3-0 By: Justin Feil    NEW YORK CITY — Sometimes statistics lie.    In the Princeton University football team’s 19-6 win over Columbia on Saturday, however, they said everything. They made a clear case for one of the most dominant defensive performances in Tiger football history. With it, Princeton improved to 3-0,…

  • Mercer County region provides firms many legal options

    LEGAL SPECIAL REPORT By: Mike Mathis    The law is big business in Mercer County, literally and figuratively.    The county is home to numerous large law firms that concentrate on a variety of specialties ranging from the environment and land use to government and health care.    That’s fitting, local lawyers say, because Mercer County is the…

  • Center Barber Shop offers ‘jazzy’ cuts for men

    FAMILY BUSINESS Diane Landis Hackett    It’s not often that you see a grown man wearing his daughter’s pink barrette to hold his longish hair out of his face. So, when my friend and neighbor Ron Connor appeared on the street sporting just that fashion statement, I felt obliged to comment.    "Nice hair, Ronnie!"    "You like…