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  • PHS second at MCT and state sectional

    By: Bob Nuse    The Princeton High golf team had won the last two team championships at the Mercer County Tournament. And last Thursday, the Little Tigers shot 12 shots better than they had last year, yet it wasn’t good enough for a third straight title.    While Princeton had four players shoot under 80 to record…

  • HHS boys’ tennis 1-1 in states

    Rams get past opening round By: Neil Hay    Credit the Hightstown tennis team with doing this year what they were unable to do in 2004 and 2005.    Get past the opening round of the NJSIAA tournament.    The 9th-seeded Rams blanked eighth-seeded host Monmouth Regional, 5-0, Thursday in Tinton Falls. The two previous springs the Rams…

  • Teen goes to bat for local park

    Eagle Scout project could have lasting impact By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — Ryan Vetter plans to use bats to build a park.    No, not bats as in baseball. Bats as is in, well, Batman.    Holy marauding mammals, what will they think of next?    Actually, the 17-year-old resident’s plan, his Eagle Scout project, makes perfect…

  • Staged crash is sobering lesson at Princeton High School

    Students look on in horror at prom-dressed "victim" By: Hilary Parker    After the last ambulances left the scene of the accident, after the bloody body was removed from the hood of the car and loaded into the hearse, Princeton High School Principal Gary Snyder read Catherine Marchetta’s obituary to the silent crowd gathered in front…

  • Children’s ID event offered

    Parents can receive a disk of their children’s ID information, which includes a digital photograph and fingerprints, on Thursday, May 25, between 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Jamesburg Fire Department. By: Stephanie Brown    JAMESBURG — Child abduction may not be an issue that parents want to think about, but according the Department of…

  • Peace group: ‘Help us grow’

    The Monroe Chapter of the Coalition for Peace Action called for greater citizen involvement in abolishing nuclear weapons, establishing a peace economy, and halting weapons trafficking during its second meeting Wednesday. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — "We need your H-E-L-P," Ellen Norman told the crowd of more than 60 township residents who attended the second…

  • Gospel group on tap at Mt. Ararat

    The Orginial Five Blind Boys of Mississippi will perform at Mt. Ararat Missionary Baptist Church Saturday at 5 p.m. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — None of the members of the Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi is an original member of the legendary gospel group the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi.    What’s more, not all…

  • Concerns over bus safety

    Parents voiced their concerns Tuesday over the Cranbury Board of Education’s proposal to put a bus stop on the corner of a 50-mph road. By: Jessica Beym    After his 14-year-old son, Guy, was attacked by two Great Danes while walking home from his bus stop last year, Robert Blackburn said Tuesday that he hates the…

  • Budget cut seen; less than in 2005

    School board prepares for cuts By: Dick Brinster    Schools Superintendent Ron Bolandi was not expecting classroom issues to be affected at a combined meeting of the East Windsor and Hightstown councils to consider the district’s defeated budget scheduled for last night, after the Herald’s deadline.    Mr. Bolandi speculated on Tuesday that the budget would be…