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  • West Windsor seeks to mend its accident-prone roads

    Funding proposed for capital budget By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — While family and friends mourn the loss of Stephanie Au-Yeung, the 17-year-old West Windsor resident who died last week in a car accident on a section of Route 571 officially known as State Highway 64, plans for safety improvements to other dangerous roads throughout…

  • West Windsor panel to search for redevelopment consultant

    Seven-member committee seeks firm to create master plan for 350-acre area By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council voted unanimously Monday to create a seven-member committee charged with selecting the consulting firm to create the master plan for the 350-acre redevelopment area in the Princeton Junction neighborhood.    The seven voting members of the…

  • D&R Greenway gets set to move into new home

    Land preservation organization to take up quarters in renovated historic barn off Rosedale Road By: David Campbell    Monday is moving day for the D&R Greenway Land Trust.    That’s when central New Jersey’s leading nonprofit land-preservation organization will load up the contents of its present offices on Canal Road in Franklin — in a rented farmhouse…

  • Borough gets 1, much bigger, bite on mill tract

    Philadelphia developer submits $42 million proposal calling for 135 condominiums and eight townhouses on Bank Street site By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — Borough leaders — some of whom think a plan for 98 residential units at the former rug mill site is too dense — have a new redevelopment option: 143.    The borough’s recent call…

  • These classical music lessons must be phoned in from Texas

    Carnatic vocal lessons also require an occasional round-trip plane ticket By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — During Vijay Narayan’s Carnatic vocal lessons, his teacher isn’t standing over his shoulder. In fact, his teacher is almost 2,000 miles away.    Vijay, a seventh-grade student at Grover Middle School, studies South Indian classical music through the Swaralayam Arts…

  • PHS boys welcome Heyman

    Little Tiger girls’ coach at helm of tennis team By: Bob Nuse    Sarah Heyman isn’t trying to be any sort of trailblazer.    But as the first female to coach the boys’ tennis team at Princeton High in at least 45 years and possibly ever, she does find herself in a rather unique situation.    "It’s been…

  • Many a message this minister uses in mission

    Pastor uses signs to attract new members Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — The Rev. Philip Bonaparte sees religious apathy as a sign of the times.    So, he’s posted a few signs of his own at the New Hope Church of God.    "Don’t Wait for the Hearse to Take You to Church," is among the most…

  • Lawrence Owusu Prempeh Jr.

       Lawrence Owusu Prempeh Jr., 23, of Hopewell Township died March 6 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Warwick, R.I., he graduated from Steinert High School in 2000.    Mr. Prempeh co-owned and operated Club’88 in Ewing Township with his mother. He enjoyed music, motorcycles and exotic cars.    Mr. Prempeh is survived by…

  • More than a friend, a guide to oneself

    A remembrance of Gail Stern By: Ilene Dube    Why is it that the good people die before the rest of us scoundrels?    Gail Stern, 55, director of the Historical Society of Princeton since 1993, headed my list of top-10 people on the planet.    I can hardly remember how we met, but I do remember always…