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  • Princeton schools seek volunteers for summer reading program

       Volunteers are needed to coordinate community reading events throughout the summer as part of Princeton Regional Schools’ efforts to promote literacy, including a goal to have all children in the district reading at grade level by third grade.    PRS is hoping to provide literacy events throughout Princeton’s neighborhoods for children in grades K through 5,…

  • Eight trustees elected to Princeton University board

    List includes one young alumni trustee By: Hillary Parker    Eight members have been elected to Princeton University’s board of trustees, including one charter trustee, four term trustees, two alumni trustees and one young alumni trustee — all of whom, the university said, will contribute equally to decisions and activities of the board.    The current board…

  • Mom’s spirit prevails

    Despair no choice after diabetic seizure leads to beloved son’s horrible accident By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — Shawn Robinson’s mother has many reasons to permit despair to become her ruling emotion as she tries to deal with his massive injuries.    Annette Robinson’s son has been hospitalized since April 6, when she said he went…

  • Princeton Packet Baseball Player of the Year

    Despite injury, Hering still produced for MHS By: Bob Nuse    Dale Hering entered his senior season at Montgomery High with pretty lofty expectations for himself.    As a junior, Hering was 5-3 on the mound and led the Cougars with five home runs as they went 17-13 and captured the North Jersey, Section 2 Group III…

  • A smile and a tear

    Graduates look forward to challenges, back on memories By: Jessica Beym    Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.    Those words, written by Dr. Seuss, were spoken Tuesday night as 80 students, joined by family, friends and faculty, received their diplomas from the Cranbury School.    Regardless of the saying, which many students probably first…

  • Tangents by John Saccenti

    Helping a worthwhile charity    I didn’t go, but I thought about it all that weekend. Longer, actually. Little kids on tricycles pedaling their way around Heritage Park in Cranbury, their parents close by, walking or on two-wheelers, some with strollers.    It must have been cute. But, it was a lot more than just that.    The…

  • Jensen headed to big time

    West Windsor teen off to Yankee Stadium for baseball contest By: Justin Feil    Joe Jensen entered the Pepsi Major League Baseball Pitch, Hit and Run contest for the second straight year. He came in with the same attitude as he had last year.    "My dad just said, let’s give it a shot and just have…

  • Domenica Pantano

       Domenica (Fruciano) Pantano, 85, of Jamesburg, died Thursday, June 15, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she resided in Jamesburg since 1993. Ms. Patano was a communicant of St. James Church in Jamesburg.    Her husband, Salvatore Pantano, died in 1994. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Patricia…

  • WW-P South grads show their vaunted spirit a final time

    Ceremony for 388 seniors held at Sovereign Bank Arena By: Courtney Gross    TRENTON — A cacophony of laughter, horns and clapping filled the Sovereign Bank Arena as West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South seniors showed their collective spirit one last time.    Just as summer broke from spring Wednesday, so did the 388 seniors. The school’s 31st…