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  • Phelan, Pirates prevail in MCT

    WW-P South wins team title behind senior’s great day By: Bob Nuse    Even when the season started slowly, Russell Wray knew he had a group of golfers capable of winning the Mercer County Tournament.    "I did think we were capable of this," Wray said after his West Windsor-Plainsboro South golf team shot a 305, the…

  • The mysterious case of the missing vowels

    Barclay Brook first graders make movie about short vowels. By: Marisa Maldonado    MONROE — Buying a vowel costs too much for the two thieves who have been spotted lurking around Barclay Brook School.    Fortunately a parent with a video camera caught them sneaking out of Room 110 last Monday.    But administrators have no reason to…

  • Princeton Rep coming back to Pettoranello Gardens

    Scheduling problems and differences with recreation officials are overcome By: David Campbell    Following a hiatus last summer due to scheduling problems, Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival will bring its popular free outdoor summer festival back to the Pettoranello Gardens amphitheater at Community Park North starting in July with a six-week production of the Shakespeare comedy "Twelfth…

  • Club keeps the magic alive in Hightstown

    Local magicians unite at club By: Dick Brinster    HIGHTSTOWN — These people are tricky.    And it would be no cliche to say they have something up their sleeves.    They lie. They cheat. They steal. And they show no remorse. In fact, they’re kind of proud of themselves.    Welcome to a meeting of the Society of…

  • PU women set for rematch

    Tigers face Virginia in NCAA lacrosse opener By: Justin Feil    The Princeton University women’s lacrosse team will have no better test of how far it has come than its first round NCAA Tournament game.    The Tigers will play at No. 2 Virginia 1 p.m. Sunday. The Cavaliers are the team that handed them their worst…

  • Reinforcing vocabulary throughout school day

    Individual and small group instruction part of Cranbury School speech program. By: Jessica Beym    Standing in front of a fourth-grade science class on Tuesday, speech teacher Isabelle Perry pointed to drawings of batteries, circuits and metal conductors as she reviewed the vocabulary that was part of the students’ lesson on electricity.    Before separating into groups…

  • Letters to the editor: May 12

    Working for peace To the editor:    The Coalition For Peace Action of Monroe Township is an organization dedicated to advancing a peace economy and the global abolition of nuclear weapons through programs that advocate these beliefs.    We are an affiliate of the Coalition For Peace Action based in Princeton under the leadership of the Rev.…

  • Students have a grande, ‘olé’ time on Cinco de Mayo

    Jamesburg kindergartners celebrate our neighbors to the south. By: Stephanie Brown    JAMESBURG — Over laughter and the occasional "olé," the song "Do you know the story of brave Juarez?," played to the tune of "Do you know the muffin man?," echoed down the kindergarten corridor of John F. Kennedy school May 5.    Dressed in ponchos…

  • EDITORIAL: Self-service will return at right time

    EDITORIAL: Opposition to gas-station options makes no sense.    Gov. Jon Corzine had the good sense last month to suggest that New Jersey might end the 57-year-old ban on self-service gas stations.    Too bad the state does not appear ready to follow his lead. The governor, recognizing that moving toward this worthy goal would cost him…