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  • Ayres ready to rebuild PU

    New Tigers wrestling coach rides success of Lehigh By: Justin Feil    Chris Ayres doesn’t have to look too far to think of where he wants to take the Princeton University wrestling team.    Ayres, named new head coach last week to replace Michael New, who resigned after last season, will inherit a Tigers team that was…

  • Family walking encouraged in Montgomery

    Health Department initiates summer program By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — The township Health Department is organizing Walk Montgomery, a summer walking program for the entire family.    Walk Montgomery encourages residents to walk from July 1 through Aug. 25 as an enjoyable way to incorporate exercise in the family routine.    The first 100 families to register…

  • Draw vacancy ‘road map’ in open session

    PACKET EDITORIAL, June 6 By: Packet Editorial    Now that the dust has settled, just about everyone seems to agree that the process used to fill the recent vacancy on the West Windsor Township Council was, to be generous, inelegant.    Other, more pointed adjectives have been employed by folks who are unhappy with the outcome of…

  • Montgomery mayor in four-way Somerset freeholder primary

    Two Democrats from Green Brook Township challenge party slate By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Township Mayor Louise Wilson will learn her fate tonight in the four-way race among Democrats seeking two freeholder seats in Somerset County.    Mayor Wilson and her running mate, Somerville Councilman Dennis Sullivan, are running on the Democratic Party line in Somerset…

  • Ellen M. Stern

       Ellen M. Stern, 53, of Pennington died Tuesday at her residence.    Born in Jersey City, she was a former resident of Trenton and a graduate of Princeton Day School and the University of Colorado.    She was a claims representative for the Admiral Insurance Company and enjoyed gardening and her cats.    Daughter of the late Lawrence…

  • BREAKING NEWS — Primary election results

    By: Register-News Staff The following are preliminary results in some northern Burlington County primary races. In the uncontested Republican Bordentown Township primary for one committee seat, Mark Roselli received 160 votes and George A. Chidley received 163 votes. Results for the Democratic race were not immediately avaiable. In the uncontested Chesterfield primary for one three-year…

  • University community hears call to service

    Audience at Reunions event urged to find passion in their profession By: Jocelyn Hanamirian    A call to service and to finding passion in one’s profession was the focus of a colloquium at Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center on Thursday, the school’s first day of Reunions.    The 85 attendees of the colloquium, "Passion and Profession: Bringing…

  • Savor the fresh and zesty foods of Greece

    While some restaurant moussaka is made with all-beef and includes sliced potato, I prefer mine with lamb, sans potato By: Faith Bahadurian    When I get the urge to roam, I often head south with my bird-watching friend Carolyn Foote Edelmann. She has devised this wonderful itinerary: We take the slow eight-mile loop road around the…

  • Use your new global power, Clinton exhorts university graduates

    Former president speaks at Class Day ceremony By: Hilary Parker    Offering a globalized echo of former President John F. Kennedy’s famous words — "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" — former President Bill Clinton posed a question to the Princeton University Class of 2006…