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  • West Windsor tests continue at site tainted by PCBs

    More contaminated concrete was spread over the site than previously believed By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — Further testing will take place at a construction site across from the Mobil gas station at Route 571 and Southfield Road where PCB-tainted crushed concrete was delivered last year.    The developer, Edgewood Properties, originally told township officials a…

  • Betty Janowski

       Betty Janowski, 80, died Monday, May 15, at home in Ocean City.    Ms. Janowski was born in Roseburg, Ore., she moved to New Jersey with her husband and lived in South River, where she helped on weekends with the family business, the Liberty Ballroom. They resided in Monroe for almost 50 years.    She was married…

  • Peddie golf wins MAPL

    Team finishes 14 strokes under defending champs By: Neil Hay    The Peddie boys golf team won this year’s Mid-Atlantic Prep League tournament with a score of 221, some 14 strokes better than defending champion Hill. The tourney was played at Peddie.    "We played great," said Coach Bill Leece.    Under the tournament’s Rider Cup format, each…

  • Council’s duty is to interview in public view

    PACKET EDITORIAL, May 19 By: Packet Editorial    We’re not lawyers, so we’re not about to venture into the legal thicket surrounding the closed-door interviews of candidates to fill a vacancy on the West Windsor Township Council.    In fact, we’re told by lawyers familiar with New Jersey’s Open Public Meetings Act, better known as the Sunshine…

  • Hun falls short in Prep A softball

    Raiders’ play improved during season By: Justin Feil    There was disappointment after the Hun School softball team lost in the Prep A state final, 3-1, to Peddie on Tuesday.    But it was a far cry from the disappointment the Raiders felt the first time they played Peddie, a 10-0 loss on April 18 that left…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Bad math equals high prices

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Washington’s proposals to ease the burden of rising gas prices are only temporary solutions. By: Hank Kalet    Do the math.    Americans make up about less than 5 percent of the world’s population. We own less than 2 percent of the world’s known oil reserves. And yet we use about a quarter…

  • PU student petition seeks traditional dining hall seating

    Administration improvement plan sees doing away with long rows of trestle tables for smaller dining areas By: Hilary Parker    Demonstrating their appetite for tradition, over 500 students at Princeton University have signed petitions against proposed changes to the seating arrangements and design of the Madison and Mestres dining halls of the Rockefeller and Mathey residential…

  • Falcon baseball squad finishing with a surge

    ‘.500 record? I’ll take it,’ coach says By: Neil Hay    Here’s one: If the Peddie baseball team won the state Prep A championship yesterday, it is conceivable the Falcons did it with sub-.500 record.    Records aside, the big news is that, as of yesterday afternoon, Peddie was still alive in the tournament. The Falcons moved…

  • Introducing Anne Frank to a new generation

    Local exhibit uses familiar story to teach about genocide’s horrors By: Emily Craighead    Growing up in suburban New Jersey, it is difficult to imagine the terror of being a Jewish child in Vienna or Budapest during World War II, much less the plight of a child in Darfur where 200,000 people have been killed and…