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  • Details of planned India complex aired

    Development proposed for 152-acre site off Milford Road would import culture, art, architecture and history from India. By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — It would take about seven years to build the Indian American Cultural Complex, which a point man for the developer says would be a "very positive presence" in the township, and not…

  • Family franks

    Hot dog truck a life’s work By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — You could say that Bill Baker found his calling in life earlier than most.    One day in 1958, his parents — on their way from the hospital to their Green Point, Brooklyn, N.Y., home — stopped by a street-corner pushcart with their 3-day-old son…

  • PHS, South finish among state’s elite

    Both in Top 10 at T of C By: Bob Nuse    Both the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South and Princeton High golf teams went to Monday’s Tournament of Champions to win.    Neither did.    But both managed to finish in the Top 10 in the state, which is quite an accomplishment. And while WW-P South walked away…

  • Together again, Pirates volleyball rolls

    Pazmino’s return leads South to state win By: Justin Feil    Andres Pazmino does not jump incredibly high. He is not even 6-feet tall.    Yet, the all-out way he plays volleyball makes him indispensable to the West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys’ team.    "When he’s healthy and doing well he’s a good player," said Pirates head coach Michael…

  • Bichsel’s 70 tops field in boys’ golf action

    Peddie team takes second, but Peddie individual takes first By: Neil Hay    A day will come, maybe next year, maybe not, but one day the Peddie boys’ golf team will defeat Lawrenceville.    Once more the Peddie linksters came up short in a match with Lawrenceville. Last Thursday at the Peddie School golf course the Big…

  • Women’s group holds model fundraiser

    The Ponds Chapter of Women’s American ORT held its annual spring fundraiser event Tuesday. By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — The Forsgate Country Club was a sea of pastel Tuesday, during the Ponds Chapter of Women’s American ORT’s annual spring fundraiser.    Dressed in their Sunday best, over 300 members and guests gathered for ORT’s ninth annual…

  • Paeans to wasted lives

    A photographer documents memento murals in Philadelphia By: Kara Fitzpatrick    Behind a cracked sidewalk and patches of overgrown weeds on a North Philadelphia street, an homage to "June Bug" is plastered obtrusively on the side of a brick building. The graffiti image of a larger-than-life young man, whose blue cap reveals he was a Penn…

  • Vets to honor the fallen

    Memorial Day plans will begin with American Legion flag-raising and wreath-laying ceremonies in Jamesburg and Monroe, followed by the borough’s annual parade. By: Stephanie Brown    Memorial Day will start off with a bang this year.    Holiday events will begin Monday morning in Jamesburg with American Legion Star Post 127’s flag-raising and wreath-laying ceremonies, which will…

  • Honoring the fallen

    Cranbury parade, services mark the day By: Jessica Beym    After Carl Liedtke, a Cranbury resident and World War II Army veteran, returned from the South Pacific in 1945, he took on the duty of commemorating soldiers who had fought and died during war.    Walking through Brainerd and Westminster cemeteries, Mr. Liedtke and Gerald Danser, who…