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  • Monroe golfers winning, but . . .

    By: Sean Richards    The Monroe High School golf team is 7-2, playing well and putting together one of its better seasons.    To hear coach Pete LoPresti tell it, however, it’s also a team somewhat in search of an identity.    "Grant Herring has been playing well, but we’re still not sure about the rest of our…

  • Monroe Board swears in three new members

    Marvin Braverman, John Leary, and Rita Ostrager were sworn in during the school’s board reorganization meeting Wednesday night. By: Marisa Maldonado    MONROE — The Board of Education kept its leadership intact at its Wednesday reorganization meeting, where it also swore three members.    Kathy Kolupanowich was re-elected president for the second year in a row, while…

  • Mapping the future

    Jamesburg eyes revitalization By: Stephanie Brown    JAMESBURG — Imagine a Jamesburg where you could spend a lazy Saturday afternoon watching a matinee or inside a cozy coffee shop reading the paper. Imagine a downtown peppered with shops ranging in goods from pet supplies to brilliant baubles.    The Jamesburg Revitalization Coalition wants to make that vision…

  • Forty firms ready to design West Windsor’s new station complex

    Officials pleased with response as selection process begins By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — Nearly 40 architectural and engineering firms lined up to submit proposals to redevelop the area around the Princeton Junction train station on Monday.    Representatives from firms including Hillier Architecture, Parsons Brinckerhoff, KSS Architects and Clarke Caton Hintz attended an information meeting…

  • EDITORIAL: New candidates good for borough

    EDITORIAL: The fact that more than one person ran for a seat on the school board should be taken as a good sign.    Jamesburg has been finding it difficult in recent years to find candidates to run for school board.    In two of the three elections prior to this year, write-in candidacies were required to…

  • Keane and Carrini keep pitching in for MHS

    By: Lance Manion    While back-to-back losses weren’t quite what they had in mind, head coach Keith Hudak and the rest of the Monroe High School softball team still received stellar pitching performances from a pair of underclassman aces in consecutive defeats this past week. And the future for a young Falcons team that’s learning on…

  • In the Bedroom

    Eighteen years after falling in love on the Bristol Riverside Theatre stage, Brad Little and Barbara McCulloh return in ‘Baby.’ By: Jillian Kalonick    Despite its title, the 1983 musical Baby is really more about marriage than having children. For Brad Little and Barbara McCulloh, who play one of three couples struggling with the idea of…

  • Letters to the Editor, April 28

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, April 28 Township voters do have a choice To the editor:     In the editorial, "Don’t deprive Princeton of second party" (The Packet, April 18), you expressed dismay that no Republicans filed petitions for any of the local offices up this year in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township. You encouraged Republicans…

  • PU golf wins on last hole

    Gerken delivers another Ivy title By: Justin Feil    Jason Gerken didn’t fully understand the situation as he settled over his ball on the 54th hole of the Ivy League Championships.    "Coach told me in the fairway we were up 2 shots total on the team with four players in," said the Princeton University senior. "I…