Category: archives
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Vegotsky settling into Princeton hoops
Bucknell soph helps team contend By: Bob Nuse Jason Vegotsky walked into a pretty good situation his first year of college basketball at Bucknell. He also walked into a pretty good situation in his first year of playing in the Princeton Recreation Men’s Summer Basketball League. Vegotsky, a Yardley, Pa. resident, joined a Bucknell team…
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Montgomery 14s advance in SJ Babe Ruth
Experience aids run through bracket By: Bob Nuse No matter what situation the Montgomery 14-year-old Babe Ruth all-star baseball team may encounter, the players and coaches always know they can fall back on their experience to get them through a tough spot. Montgomery, which reached the Cal Ripken World Series with most of this same…
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West Windsor zoning board troubled by lack of guidelines on station plan
Applications come in for area designated for redevelopment By: Courtney Gross WEST WINDSOR There is not even a design yet for the proposed redevelopment area surrounding the Princeton Junction train station but at least one township body feels it needs guidance on the plan. Even before a planner has been chosen, the township…
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Tech firm uses grant for innovative solar research
Princeton Power Systems seeks to maximize and control the energy produced by solar panels By: Lauren Otis As anyone with a basic knowledge of solar power generation knows, things would be ever so simple if every day was clear and sunny. But they aren’t. Which is where a company like Princeton Power Systems comes in.…
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Quick and accurate from the foul line
Campbell breaks his own record By: Mark Rosenthal In basketball the free-throw line is often referred to as the charity stripe. It seems fitting then that East Windsor resident and current Guinness Book of World Record holder Mike Campbell chose to raise money for charity by trying to break a year old free…
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State expert sweet-talks importance of bees
The Plainsboro Library was buzzing on Wednesday morning By: Courtney Gross PLAINSBORO The community room in the Plainsboro Public Library was buzzing Wednesday morning, quite literally. New Jersey’s resident bee expert extraordinaire, or chief apiarist, Paul Raybold, visited the library to contribute to a class on nature studies. The class instructor, Frances Reichl, an…
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WW 12s ran into a ‘Wall’
District 12 champs fall in Section 3 final By: Bob Nuse TINTON FALLS For nearly a week, the West Windsor 12-year-old all-star baseball team went back and forth to Tinton Falls. For six straight days, players, coaches and parents made the trip to Monmouth County. All involved would gladly have made a seventh trip.…
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Observe people to learn about communiction
SPEAKING OF COMMUNICATIONSusan Young I’m considering changing the title on my business card to "Life’s Little Observer." As a former news reporter I have been carefully trained to watch, look, observe and ask questions. I’ve been chasing news stories across New Jersey for 22 years. I quickly learned that if I asked good questions, I…
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‘A better way to learn Italian’ offered
Tom Means, founder and president of the Means Language Center in New York City will give a lecture, "A Better Way to Learn Italian," on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the monthly meeting of the Princeton-Pettoranello Sister City Foundation. The lecture will take place in the Community Room of the Princeton Township Municipal Building. A…
