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  • 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…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Pirates’ Aloi playing beyond years By: Justin Feil    Anthony Aloi is just a sophomore, but he has unmatched tournament experience.    He has relied on it in the final weeks of his second year with the West Windsor-Plainsboro South golf team.    The culmination of Aloi’s sophomore year with the Pirates began when he won the Central-South…

  • Man hurt by cement mixer is recovering at UMDNJ

    Victim was working at Hopewell Township residence By Ruth Luse    Fernando Villa Reyes, 21, of Camden underwent emergency surgery on his right arm and shoulder yesterday (Thursday) at UMDNJ in Newark after an accident involving a portable cement mixer, police said.    Chief George Meyer said this afternoon that Mr. Reyes "suffered multiple fractures" to his…

  • Town urges removal of tainted fill

    The state Department of Environmental Protection orders further testing to determine extent of contamination. By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — While some contaminated concrete has been removed from a commercial-medical site under construction on Applegarth Road, a debate continues over what to do with the remaining fill.    The state Department of Environmental Protection ordered Ford Motor…

  • Peddie baseball settles for second place in Prep A

    Team that started 2-8 finished strong By: Neil Hay    Sometime back in April, when the Peddie baseball team was struggling along with two wins in its first 10 games, Coach Erik Treese would remind his players that it is not how you start that matters, but how you finish.    Peddie baseball is finished for 2006.…

  • Fleet of fuel-efficient hybrids cruises into WW-P high school

    Environmental science class at High School North gets some real-world lessons By: Emily Craighead    Eight fuel-efficient hybrid cars, a group of car salesmen and an environmental science class transformed West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North’s parking lot into a showcase for environmentally friendly cars Wednesday.    "My environmental science class was doing alternative fuel research, and as…

  • Secret Gardens

    Discover Lambertville’s ‘Hidden Gardens’ on the 10th annual garden tour, as well as two other verdant oases. By: Ilene Dube    Twelve years ago, Marjorie Meriam was strolling the tree-lined streets of Lambertville when she became intrigued by what goes on behind those Italianate and French Second Empire-style architectural gems. "When I walked around looking for…

  • Letters to the editor

    For the week of May 26 Letter writer was not informed To the editor:     This is in response to Linda Hecker’s letter in last week’s edition.    Truly amazing! Two local boards (the East Windsor Municipal Utilities Authority and the Hightstown Board of Health) and the New Jersey Public Health Council have been waiting months…