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  • 10’s showed lots of fight

    By: Rich Fisher    The Cranbury-Plainsboro 10-year-old All-Star team can’t say it advanced to bracket play in the District 12 Tournament.    But no one can say that C-P didn’t try.    The locals finished 1-3 in pool play last week, but did their best to make a run. That was never more clear than Friday night, when…

  • Safety director at PU gains association post

       Princeton University Director of Public Safety Steven J. Healy became the 49th president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, Inc. on July 1, after being installed at a ceremony held June 27 in Orlando, Fla.    In his inaugural address, Chief Healy presented his plans for the future of the IACLEA, emphasizing "five…

  • WW-P renews Loretan’s contract

    Superintendent gets three-year extension with 3 percent salary hike. By: Courtney Gross    He is here to stay — at least for three more years.    The West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education, following discussion in executive session on July 11, voted 7-0 to renew Superintendent Robert Loretan’s contract until 2009. Board members Anthony Fleres and Stan Katz…

  • Author David Campbell shares love of words

    Former Packet staffer kicks off ‘Monday Mystery and Mayhem’ series at library. By: Hilary Parker    Two exchanges shared by author David Campbell at the Princeton Public Library on Monday night drew the same response — laughter.    "No," Mr. Campbell read from his debut novel, "Venetian Holiday" (St. Martin’s Press, 2006), quoting a waiter’s response to…

  • New meters would reduce staff time

    By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — The borough plans to spend about $245,000 to turn a one-to-two week task for two employees into a one-day, one-person job.    Borough Council on Monday unanimously introduced a bond ordinance appropriating that sum to purchase about 1,700 water meters that are easier to read and more accurate than the current…

  • EDITORIAL: Commissioners jump the gun

    A review is a good idea, local resident says; it will only result in more information    The Board of Fire Commissioners for Fire District 2 in Monroe has come out against fire district consolidation.    The commissioners believe consolidation will increase costs without improving fire protection and that it could derail a plan to build a…

  • Post has 401 reasons to celebrate!

    South Brunswick claims first county title since ’89 By: Rich Fisher    They had to win their last nine games just to be able to play for a championship.    Once they did that, they weren’t about to blow it.    Post 401 brought South Brunswick it’s first Middlesex County American Legion League baseball title since 1989 when…

  • Woman celebrates 100th

    A local resident has a very special birthday party By: Candice Leigh Helfand    In 1906, the average life expectancy was 47 years.    Julia Peterla was born in 1906, and she has more than proven that estimate wrong. She celebrated her 100th birthday July 14, and a party was held Sunday in her honor.    Family members…

  • Find a way now to cut police costs

    By: Vic Monaco    Hightstown Mayor Bob Patten has repeated something he said several months ago: He has offered the services of the borough Police Department to other communities – two, which he wouldn’t name — in an effort to generate much-needed revenue.    "We’re standing by," he said.    East Windsor Mayor Janice Mironov also is standing…