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  • Chuang enjoys growth of MHS golf

    Original team member has continued to improve By: Bob Nuse    Angela Chuang was around when the Montgomery High girls’ golf program started as a club team in 2004.    Now, as a junior and one of the Cougars’ better golfers in a varsity program, she’s quite happy to see how far Montgomery girls’ golf has come.…

  • Betty Jean Stires

       Betty Jean Stires, 78, died on Feb. 14.    Born in Harbourton, she had been a resident of the area all her life.    She was member of Gothic Chapter, Eastern Star, of Pennington and a long-standing member of Pennington Grange No 64, NJ State Grange and Pomona Grange.    Daughter of the late Helen and George Hart,…

  • Constance H. Thornton

       Constance H. Thornton, 80, of Ewing died Saturday, at Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center.    Born in Trenton, she was the only child of William C. Hillman and Teresa Bowes Hillman. She resided in Trenton, Lawrence, and Pennington before moving to Ewing in October 2005. She was married to the late Harry W.…

  • Road work planned for Hopewell’s East Broad Street

    Milling, paving scheduled to begin April 26 By Ruth Luse    Hopewell Township police Chief George Meyer reported April 20 that the Mercer County Highway Division will be milling and paving East Broad Street in Hopewell Borough and Hopewell Township, from Greenwood Avenue to Aunt Molly Road.    The work is scheduled to begin on April 26…

  • April 24: Back again

    Thoughts on poverty, music and those weird-looking Padres uniforms. By: Hank Kalet    I’ve just finished reading a book that should be required reading for everyone living in America. David Shipler’s "The Working Poor" offers a glimpse into the world that far too many Americans inhabit, a world of insecurity in which every mistake, whether larger…

  • Raid yields drug arrest in South Brunswick

    Police charge woman with selling heroin, cocaine and marijuana from mobile home. By: Hank Kalet    A 46-year-old South Brunswick woman was charged Friday after police seized heroin, cocaine and marijuana.    Wanda Averette, 46, of 83 Oakdale Village was charged after the police Emergency Response Team raided her mobile home Thursday night. A dozen ERT members…

  • X Files star Duchovny will give film lecture

       Actor and director David Duchovny, a 1982 graduate of Princeton University, will speak Thursday in the Stewart Film Theater on the university campus, Princeton said.    The talk is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at the theater located at 185 Nassau St.    Mr. Duchovny gained fame as FBI Agent Fox Mulder in television’s "The X Files" from…

  • Rocky Hill school budget endorsed by 42-13 vote

    By: Jake Uitti    ROCKY HILL — Borough voters Tuesday approved a $929,009 school budget for the 2006-2007 school year by a vote of 42-13. The money will go to pay the tuition for borough students who attend school in the Montgomery Township School District.    Voters also elected Courtney White, who received 53 votes, and Lisa…

  • Walz, PU vault to top of Gehrig race

    Pitcher’s strong outing comes in Tiger sweep By: Justin Feil    Eric Walz may have pitched better at points this season, but never has he had a more meaningful result for the Princeton University baseball team.    Walz went a career-long 10 innings, allowed just five hits and struck out five as the Tigers beat Columbia, 6-3,…