Category: archives

  • Rudowitz and MHS program grew together

    By: Lance Manion    Living through the dark ages of Monroe High School boys basketball history helped give A.J. Rudowitz perspective on the most crushing loss of the season.    "As a freshman, I expected to win at least one game. We didn’t," the 6-6 senior forward said. "We won three games my sophomore year and nine…

  • Letters to the Editor for the week of March 10

    Setting the record straight on Twin Rivers To the editor:     Vic Monaco, in his Editor’s Notebook in the March 3 edition, exposes his bias about Twin Rivers and about most homeowners’ associations. From his piece, it is apparent that he has never visited our community or done his homework on our history.    May I…

  • Board eyes tax hike

    3.3 percent increase readied for April 18 election By: Jessica Beym    Despite cuts to proposed capital projects and increase in the use of reserved funds, proposed spending increases for the school district could still lead to a 3.3 percent hike in school taxes for 2006-2007.    The Board of Education introduced a preliminary $15.7 million budget…

  • Princeton deer cull season ends quietly

    Three-week toll put at 151 By: David Campbell    A sixth year of deer management in Princeton Township using hired sharpshooters and captive bolting quietly wrapped up this week, White Buffalo President Anthony DeNicola said.    Fieldwork began Feb. 16 and ended Wednesday night with a total of about 151 deer killed, said Mr. DeNicola, whose Connecticut-based…

  • Attorneys for university, Robertson family file motions, responses

    Duel over $650 million endowment continues as trial expected later this year By: David Campbell    Attorneys for the Robertson family this week filed three more pre-trial motions in the family’s ongoing legal battle over control of a $650 million endowed foundation for Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.    The motions, filed…

  • Rocky Hill residents gearing up for Wawa fight

    Montgomery Planning Board expected to hear jurisdictional challenge Monday By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Rocky Hill officials are expected Monday to challenge on jurisdictional grounds the right of the township Planning Board to continue hearing an application by Wawa to build a convenience store and 12-bay gasoline station at the site of the former Princeton…

  • U.S. 1 Poets to read March 26

       U.S. 1 Worksheets, Volume 51, will be honored with a reading and reception at the Princeton University Store on Sunday, March 26, from 2 to 4 p.m.    This annual publication of U.S. 1 Poets’ Cooperative features poems by authors from Amichai to Zulauf. 2006 editors Carlos Hernández-Peña, Kathe Palka, and Maxine Susman selected work from…

  • Borough modifies parking ban plan

    Council expected to ban street parking on section of Rogers Avenue on weekdays By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council is expected to take action later this month to ban street parking on a section of Rogers Avenue on weekdays.    Councilman Larry Quattrone introduced an amended ordinance Monday after hearing some public criticism last…

  • Tiger women to play for NCAA trip

    Celebration delayed after PU ties for Ivy League By: Justin Feil    The champagne is still on ice for the Princeton University women’s basketball team.    Though the Tigers own another Ivy League championship — their first since 1999 — there was only a subdued celebration after their 67-55 win over the University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday.…