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  • 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…

  • Princeton Township retains its top AAA bond rating

    By: Kara Fitzpatrick    Princeton Township’s AAA bond rating has been affirmed by two Wall Street bond rating agencies — Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s.    In separate announcements made earlier this week, the two agencies affirmed the rating, citing fiscally responsible practices on the part of the township.    AAA is the highest bond rating a governmental…

  • Around Cranbury by Lorraine Sedor

    A summer full of books and concerts    Paws, Claws, Scales and Tales are everywhere in the Cranbury Public Library this summer. It’s time for the library’s Summer Reading Club and the theme, if you haven’t guessed, is animals.    The fun started right after school on Thursday, June 22, when The Jenkinson’s Aquarium brought in a…

  • C-PLL could be a darkhorse

    By: Rich Fisher    If you’re looking for a darkhorse in the upcoming 12-year-old District 12 Little League Tournament, Cranbury-Plainsboro could be worth a peek.    While past performances have not been anything earth shattering with this group, C-P begins pool play Thursday with a new cast of characters that have not been seen wearing the powder…