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  • Monroe, Jamesburg support truancy bill

    The bill would require districts to report chronic absences to DYFS. By: Marisa Maldonado    Local school administrators say they support a bill under consideration in the state Assembly that would require districts to keep a closer eye on truant students.    The bill, co-sponsored by Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein, a Democrat who represents Jamesburg and Monroe, was…

  • Chief justice: State’s high court highly ethical

    Deborah T. Poritz addresses Rotary Club of Princeton By: David Campbell    New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz told the Rotary Club of Princeton on Tuesday that the court’s seven justices are held to the highest ethical code for judges in the nation.    Speaking at the Nassau Inn, Chief Justice Poritz gave an…

  • Righteous rasslin’

    Pro grappling event to benefit Hodgkin’s sufferer By: Katie Jasion    When Hightstown resident Jamie Forkin heard that professional wrestlers were going to do a benefit show in his name, he was shocked.    "I was actually pretty moved. I wasn’t expecting anything like this," Mr. Forkin said.    On Saturday night, more than 20 wrestlers will donate…

  • Independent film producer traces the challenges outside Hollywood

    Christine Vachon, founder of Killer Films, addresses audience at Princeton University By: David Campbell    Christine Vachon, founder of the movie production company Killer Films, gave a talk Wednesday at Princeton University in which she discussed everything from the changing nature of the independent-film industry, to the upside of filming on location in Romania, to why…

  • DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Wrong solution to the problem

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Eminent domain is useful as long as the properties taken are part of a larger redevelopment plan and no one private developer benefits. By: Hank Kalet    Eminent domain has been getting a bad rap these days.    Beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last year in Kelo v. New London, Conn.,…

  • Carjacking calls Rocky Hill police contract into question

    Victim claims police failed to respond to emergency By: Jake Uitti    ROCKY HILL — A December carjacking in Franklin Township and allegations that a South Bound Brook police officer on patrol in Rocky Hill failed to come to the victim’s assistance was a major focus of a Borough Council budget workshop meeting Monday.    Princeton resident…

  • Frantzen ready for regions

    PHS senior is more confident By: Bob Nuse    As Tom Frantzen has become a more experienced wrestler, he has also become a more confident wrestler.    Last weekend, the Princeton High senior used that experience and confidence to win the District 17 championship at 171 pounds. He was the only Packet-area wrestler to win a district…

  • Muldoon to chair new Princeton University arts center

    A new facility planned for the campus By: David Campbell    Princeton University Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Professor Paul Muldoon has been selected as the founding chair of the new University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the university said.    The center, to be based in a new facility to be built on campus, is part…

  • Police Blotter for the week of March 3

    By: East Windsor    A car on Twin Rivers Drive North was reportedly broken into between 11:30 p.m. Feb. 21 and 8 a.m. Feb. 22.    Taillights valued at $500, A Sony CDX-M stereo valued at $315 and an air conditioner/heater console valued at $500 were reported stolen from the car. Entry was gained by breaking the…