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  • Column: Small town a big baseball winner

    Montgomery building baseball reputation against big boys By: Justin Feil    For the third straight year, a Montgomery Baseball team will play in a World Series.    Pretty amazing when you consider from where the competition is coming.    The Montgomery 10-year-old all-stars open play Saturday in Lafayette, La., against the best of the youngest age group playing…

  • Student’s Holocaust oral history project heads for Washington

    WW-P High School South graduate independenly joins Adopt-A-Survivor program By: Emily Laemer    Jenna Lichtenstein was reading the newspaper one day when something sparked her interest.    Students from Hightstown and Ewing high schools were interviewing Holocaust survivors and compiling their histories.    "The students had to make a biography about them, research where they came from, find…

  • Princeton University changes IDs to combat underage drinking

    Young dependents of faculty and staff won’t be able to slip into eating clubs as easily By: Hilary Parker    While the 10 eating clubs frequented by Princeton University students are private operations, the university has enacted a change to the identification cards it provides to the underage dependents of faculty and staff in an effort…

  • Obituaries

    John J. Marion    HAMILTON — John (Jack) J. Marion, 79, died Saturday at home.    He was born in Morrisville, Pa., raised in Trenton, and was a lifelong resident of Yardville.    He attended St. Joseph’s Elementary School and graduated from Trenton Catholic High School after serving in the Navy during World War II. He then attended…

  • A craft that is not just for the birds

    Cranbury Library invites children of all ages to build and learn By: Candice Leigh Helfand    Cranbury’s summer reading program went to the birds when children and adults flocked to the library on Saturday morning.    Three parents and 22 children built and decorated birdhouses, with pipe cleaners, markers and stickers at their disposal. Some chose to…

  • West Windsor bond ordinances to fund major projects

    $4.5 million in spending on tap By: Courtney Gross    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council introduced several ordinances Monday that would provide funding for capital improvement projects over the next year, including a bond ordinance and a fully-funded capital improvement ordinance.    The bond ordinance would appropriate $4.1 million for capital projects including anticipated road and…

  • Plainsboro police to step up DWI enforcement

    By: Courtney Gross    PLAINSBORO — As part of the statewide "You Drink, You Drive, You Lose" campaign, Plainsboro police say they will be stepping up their impaired driving enforcement from Aug. 18 until after Labor Day.    During the last weeks of summer, parties and social gatherings often occur more frequently and usually include alcohol, police…

  • Little time for lunch at Brookside

    Students need more time to eat, parents say By: Lacey Korevec    MONROE — Brookside School students have had little time for lunch during the past several years, a problem some parents want to see fixed.    Principal Dennis Ventrello said he expects 895 students at the grade 3-6 school in September. They will be divided into…

  • Region wilts but survives the heat

    Few troubles reported as weekend predicted to bring relief By: Kara Fitzpatrick    Relief is in sight.    The high temperatures that descended upon central New Jersey and most of the East Coast this week are subsiding — and, according to David Robinson, state climatologist at Rutgers University, the area is expected to be heat-wave-free for a…