Category: archives

  • Self-injury trend confronts Princeton University

    Survey indicates 20 percent of women and 14 percent of men at two schools have engaged in practice By: Hilary Parker    The percentage of Princeton University students who have at some point engaged in self-injurious behaviors is greater than the percentage of applicants admitted to the university each year, according to a study published in…

  • Letters to the editor

    For the week of June 9 Thanks to Green, Clean folks To the editor:     I wanted to personally thank everyone who has helped with the Green and Clean Team environmental projects that have happened in Hightstown over the past few months.    During our Earth Day events on April 29, there was a ribbon-cutting ceremony…

  • Opening activism

    Her battle with Twin Rivers now playing to larger audience By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — Disputes over the color and style of front doors opened the way to what is now Margaret Bar-Akiva’s battle against a "Trojan horse."    There might be no better way to begin chronicling a decade for an activist that began…

  • Hamilton

    "Hamilton," a lovable, 3-year-old male cat, is in need of a loving home and available for adoption from SAVE, Princeton’s animal shelter, 900 Herrontown Road, Princeton. For information about adopting "Hamilton" or another cat or dog, call (609) 921-6122. SAVE: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/NJ143.html

  • Graduate student works to free father jailed in Taiwan

    Daughter sees "a political witch hunt" By: Hilary Parker    More than two weeks have passed since Princeton graduate student Rosalyne Shieh’s father, Ching-Jyh Shieh, was arrested in Taiwan in what Ms. Shieh describes as "a political witch hunt."    Formerly Taiwan’s National Science Council deputy minister, Mr. Shieh resigned from his position following his May 24…

  • You’ve Got To Have Heart

    Frank Russo and Gene Racz pay tribute to players baseball has forgotten. By: Josh Appelbaum    It takes a lot of heart, and an equal amount of shoe leather, to satiate baseball fans’ hunger for the long-buried anecdotes, facts and statistics of the national pastime.    Since the mid ’90s, Frank Russo, creator and maintainer of thedeadballera.com,…

  • Face the Music

    There’s no business like ‘Show Business’ at the Michener in an exhibit on Irving Berlin. By: Anthony Stoeckert    If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to, why don’t you go… to the Michener Museum in Doylestown, Pa., for Show Business: Irving Berlin’s Hollywood, the new exhibit that celebrates Berlin and the birth…

  • Getting ready to take flight

    Eighth-graders start looking ahead to graduation and high school By: Jessica Beym    Twin sisters Sarah and Katie DiLella know they will be leaving more than just nine years at the Cranbury School behind when they graduate this month. They also will be leaving each other.    Come fall, Katie and the majority of the Cranbury School…

  • Ragucci finishes fourth in Group III

    By: Redd E. Patrick    Monroe High School’s sophomore track sensation Nicole Ragucci got a taste of the big-time and now she’s hungry for more.    At the rain-soaked NJSIAA Group III State Championships last weekend in South Plainfield, Ragucci lined up against some of the best 400-meter runners in the state and more than held her…