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  • Freshmen getting early look

    MTHS program facilitates transition By: Lacey Korevec    By the time they enter Monroe Township High School in September, about 80 freshmen will have already gone through a 20-day crash course on how to handle the transition into a bigger, more academically challenging school.    High School 101 is a free summer program meant to aid freshman…

  • Golfers together again

    Bauman, Dennish team up to reach four ball championship By: Justin Feil    Ward Bauman and Mark Dennish have played a lot of holes of golf together, but until late last month they had never paired up for a tournament.    The first time proved to be a charm for the longtime friends who play out of…

  • Naturalist chosen for Harrison Street Park project

    Rehabilitation plan on tap for three-acre site By: Kara Fitzpatrick    Moving forward plans to improve the Harrison Street Park, the Princeton Borough Council on Tuesday passed a resolution naming naturalist Stephen Hiltner as the professional who will provide services for the site.    Over the course of two months, Mr. Hiltner, a North Harrison Street resident…

  • Survivors remember Hiroshima

    Years later, mental and physical scars remain from nuclear attack By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — Yoshio Sato was 14 years old when the United States Army Air Force dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" less than a mile from his home in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.    Sixty-one years have passed and the memory of…

  • Letters to the Editor, Aug. 11

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Aug. 11 Council members want common decency To the editor:     At the business meeting of the West Windsor Township Council on Monday, Aug. 14, the council is scheduled to vote on revisions to its Procedural Guidelines. Included in these revisions is a proposed Municipal Vacancy Guideline. The call for a…

  • Barbara Baker Fawcett

       Barbara Baker Fawcett, 99 of Doylestown, Pa., died Wednesday, Jan. 25.    A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, Aug. 19 at 11 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury, 22 South Main Street, Cranbury. Burial will follow in Brainerd Cemetery. She and her late husband, James B. Fawcett, were former longtime residents of Cranbury…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Poetry for the modern age

    Politics in art By: Hank Kalet    The cities break up The land is a train of dust Only poetry knows how to marry this space." — Adonis    The great poet Denise Levertov, who spent some time teaching at Drew University in Madison, believed the poet should be engaged with the world.    She was a regular…

  • Edythe Cohen

       Edythe Imershein Cohen, 82, of Monroe, died Thursday, Aug. 3, at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Ms. Cohen was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. She was residing in the Clearbrook.    Her husband, David Cohen, died in August 1998. She is survived by two sons, Charles Stein and Bruce Stein; a grandson, Samuel Stein; and a…

  • Jamesburg man stabbed at party

    Several charges brought against South Brunswick man By: Lacey Korevec    Twenty-four-year-old Jamesburg resident Michael Bifulco was stabbed at a house party on New Road on Sunday.    According to police, Jeffrey Shuke, 23, of Colleen Court in South Brunswick, was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for an illegal purpose.    Police said the…