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  • WW-PN girls come up short in MCT hoops

    Mixed results in consolations By: Bob Nuse    Each year the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North girls’ basketball program has taken another step forward.    This year, that step forward meant a berth in the Mercer County Tournament semifinals, where the Knights dropped a 56-45 decision to top-seeded Trenton Catholic Academy on Friday at Mercer County Community College.…

  • Controversial Rocky Hill housing plan set for Round 2

    Schafer tract development would be the largest in decades By: Jake Uitti    ROCKY HILL — The hearing on the controversial Schafer tract housing development, the borough’s largest residential construction project in several decades, will resume before the Planning Board on Thursday at the First Reformed Church on Washington Street.    The application, which proposes 34 age-restricted,…

  • Letters to the Editor, Feb. 21

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Feb. 21 Vice president elected to lead, not to ponder To the editor:     Dick Cheney must think he is simply the vice president of a small Texas town. After shooting his friend in the heart, Mr. Cheney believed it was sufficient for the ranch owner to release to the local…

  • Perfect for Princeton

    Amy Karyn home-furnishing store sells its two sites and relocates to Palmer Square By: Marjorie Censer    Amy Karyn Lichstein has sold her home furnishings in two stores, one within a large store in New York City and another a small space in Lambertville. But neither one was quite right, Ms. Lichstein said.    She wanted a…

  • West Windsor mayor seeks ban on pay-to-play bids

    Station redevelopment at issue By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — When the Township Council meets tonight to discuss redeveloping the area around Princeton Junction station, Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh will present his own proposal for keeping the process fair and open.    The mayor announced Monday he will present a pay-to-play ordinance disqualifying any individuals, companies or…

  • Princeton planners begin review of Butler dorm plan

    Targeted for destruction, 1960s-era modernist buildings said to be despised by students By: David Campbell    The Regional Planning Board of Princeton reviewed a concept plan by Princeton University on Thursday night that calls for five dormitories of Butler College to be demolished and replaced with a slightly larger two-building dormitory as part of a major…

  • D’Augillo, MHS look to extend season

    PHS girls also swim for crown By: Justin Feil    Michelle D’Aguillo would love to extend her senior swim season.    She will have two chances when the North Jersey, Section 2 B Division second-seeded Montgomery High girls’ team takes on top-seeded Scotch Plains-Fanwood 6 p.m. tonight at the Lincoln Center in Bayonne.    Cut almost a half-second…

  • Newcombe helps PHS reach B swim final

    MHS boys also swim for title By: Justin Feil    Jimmy Newcombe has a rare determination.    It makes him valuable to two teams. For much of the year, his ability to push himself to the brink of his threshold of pain makes him an excellent rower for the Mercer Bucks Rowing Club. And for the remaining…

  • Middlesex County revamps its transit network

       Middlesex County will roll out a new name and a new look for its transit network this year.    Formerly known as Area Wide Transportation Services, the transit options will now be called Middlesex County Area Transit.    The county will add 13 new 12- to 14-passenger vans to its fleet of MCAT buses, vans and passenger…