Category: archives

  • PHS construction: new spaces are ‘falling into place’

    New classrooms almost ready for the school year By: Hilary Parker    As the Sept. 7 start of the 2006-2007 school year edges ever closer, workers and administrators at Princeton High School are watching the clock as they aim to open a number of new spaces — including over 20 classrooms — in time for arrival…

  • Summer successes should lead to great year for HHS girls’ soccer

    By: Sean Moylan    If its play in the CVC Girls’ Summer Soccer League is any indication, Don Hess’ Hightstown High School girls’ varsity soccer team should have a strong season this fall.    Hightstown finished with a 5-0-1 record and played all of its games at Mercer County Park.    "I thought it was a great stepping…

  • Princeton Township sets effort on drunken drivers

    By: Kara Fitzpatrick    The Princeton Township Police Department will be stepping up impaired driving enforcement from Aug. 18 to Sept. 4 as part of the "You Drink and Drive, You Loose" statewide crackdown.    The enforcement period was chosen because the end of summer is traditionally a time of social gatherings, which often include alcohol, a…

  • Camp Pro players help teach 125 kids

    Local camp teaches game of soccer from A to Zizo By: Sean Moylan    The Zizo Soccer Camp, which ran from the August 7-11 at the East Windsor PAL complex, was hugely successful and saw 125 campers, ages 7-15, learn soccer skills from some of soccer’s greatest players.    Although it was Mohamed "Zizo" Sherif’s (one of…

  • Coin counter

    Curator of numismatics undertakes task of compiling online catalog of collection By: Hilary Parker    The maker of the bronze Ming knife coin that was donated in July to the Princeton University Numismatic Collection could never have foreseen that the ancient Chinese money would one day end up in an online database.    Nevertheless, that is precisely…

  • Board tables bank proposal

    Cites lack of acquired property By: Stephanie Brown    JAMESBURG — The Land Use Board decided last week to postpone an application for the construction of a new bank because the applicant has not acquired the property it needs to build the facility.    Land Use Board officials say Commerce Bank of Mount Laurel has not submitted…

  • Theater troupe hopes ‘Gypsy’ comes up roses

    Let the Mighty Oak Players entertain you By: Candice Leigh Helfand    As Sabrina Goodman and Madison Paige Samilow — Baby Louise and June, respectively — finished rehearsing one of their numbers, Jeff Babey, the show’s director, commented that Sabrina could be "a little bit worse."    "Worse?" Sabrina replied. "But I thought that was really bad…

  • Bus costs an issue

    Private-school parents want transportation By: Lacey Korevec    About 90 township parents who send their children to nonpublic schools do not know how their kids will get to school this year.    The school district has only been able to secure bus transportation for three of the 38 nonpublic schools South Brunswick students will attend this year,…

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