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  • Hospital to host juried art show

       The work of close to 100 artists will be showcased at the fourth annual ArtFirst!, a juried exhibition and sale featuring art and fine crafts by professional artists with physical and mental disabilities.    Presented by The Auxiliary of University Medical Center at Princeton, the show will open with a gala preview party to take place…

  • Letters to the Editor, March 17

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, March 17 Sidewalk decision puzzles residents To the editor:     I’ll admit it — I’m a sore loser. I am sore that we are losing our Princeton to a frenzy of construction.    On March 13, our Township Committee, a well-intentioned but misguided group who were led astray, committed us to ever…

  • HERALD POLL

    Your View On: Hightstown Police By:    Hightstown, which comprises 1.2 square miles, has a police force with 13 members. Its proposed 2006 budget combined with funding for dispatchers and 9-1-1 operations total about $1.5 million. That compares to a total proposed municipal budget of $5.3 million, which carries a tax increase of about 28 cents…

  • A family spins tales from the treetops

    Brothers join mom in authoring book on combining environmental research with an adventurous lifestyle By: Hilary Parker    Judging from Edward and James Burgess, the "apple doesn’t fall far from the tree" cliché is as true in the Amazon as on the apple farm.    The brothers, both students at Princeton University — where James is a…

  • NPDC property in need of a name

    Township Committee seeks suggestions from residents By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — What’s your opinion?    The Township Committee is seeking suggestions from Montgomery residents and business owners on a name for the former North Princeton Developmental Center property, which the township is in the process of acquiring from the state.    Three choices have been presented to…

  • PU has set bar higher

    Softball looks to region return By: Justin Feil    The Princeton University softball team has just the opening weekend of games under its belt, but Amanda Erickson is confident the Tigers will be back in the NCAA Regional by the end of the season.    The Tigers went 2-3 in the UNC Tar Heel Invitational two weeks…

  • WW-P Board of Education OKs $141.6 million budget

    A projected $126.4 million to be raised through taxes By: Emily Craighead    The West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education voted 8-0 Tuesday to approve the 2006-2007 preliminary budget for submission to the county schools superintendent. Board member Ellen Walsh was absent.    A 3.9-percent spending increase sets the total budget at $141.6 million, with $126.4 million…

  • Author tells story … by showing it

    Princeton Reads’ selected writer, James McBride, speaks before high school audience By: Emily Craighead    James McBride talked to us for half an hour and never took his hat off.    James McBride talked to us for half an hour and took one sip of his water.    James McBride talked to us for half an hour and…

  • Letter to the Editor for the week of March 17

    Response to column must be answered To the editor:     A letter written by Evan Greenberg and published in the March 10 issue of the Herald must be answered because it contains the usual Greenberg rhetoric, is designed to prevent a free flow of information and demonstrates his arrogance.    I believe that the current lawsuit…