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  • Classics major wins coveted Princeton University scholarship

    Senior Dan-el Padilla Peralta will study two years Oxford University By: David Campbell    Princeton University senior Dan-el Padilla Peralta has been named the recipient of the 2006 Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, the university has announced.    The award was established in 1970 to provide graduating seniors with opportunities to study, work and…

  • Girls Who Bully

    ‘Odd Girl Out’ author Rachel Simmons will lead a workshop on teaching girls to manage psychological aggression without bullying. By:Susan Van Dongen    The "mean girls" stepped on my feet and pulled my hair. They took a pretty hat I wore to a dance and threw it in the mud, ruining it. And one time they…

  • Editorial for the week of Feb. 10

    By: Vic Monaco    With the possible exception of the former Minute Maid plant, the mill property on Bank Street is the only significant piece of developable property in Hightstown.    So it makes sense for local officials to do everything they can to ensure that the 12-acre tract gets the optimum development.    Toward that end, the…

  • Store plans move ahead

    Planning Board approved application for an upcoming home furnishing store on Cranbury’s Main Street. By: Jessica Beym    Plans to open a home furnishing store on Main Street are under way after business partners Suellen Waters and Jamie Sims got Planning Board approval last week to make some improvements.    Ms. Waters and Mr. Sims, of Red…

  • Monroe boys stun JFK in GMCs

    By: James McKeever    There weren’t many people on the Greater Middlesex Conference bowling scene who thought Monroe had much of a chance at beating J.F. Kennedy in the GMC Tournament.    The Falcons, seeded 13th, had to bowl against Kennedy, the No. 4 seed, without their leader Gregg Puleio, who was sidelined with an illness.    Monroe,…

  • Rossi goes out a winner at MCC

    By: Justin Feil    Princeton High’s Nina Rossi did not disappoint in her final Mercer County Swim Championship.    The senior earned Most Valuable Player honors during Saturday’s meet at Lawrence High School.    In Thursday’s preliminaries, she broke both her county 200 individual medley and 100 butterfly records. In Saturday’s finals, she again broke the 200 IM…

  • Eighth-graders get first taste of Monroe High

    High school teachers and administrators held an orientation for the middle school students, Tuesday. By: Marisa Maldonado    MONROE — "Don’t procrastinate" is a phrase all students have heard from their teachers at least once.    But no one would accuse the hundreds of eighth-graders who packed the auditorium at Monroe Township High School on Tuesday night…

  • Madeline Swift

       Madeline C. (Healy) Swift, 88, died Monday, Feb. 6, at the Cranbury Care Center, Monroe Township.    Born in New York City, she lived in Queens for 40 years, moving to East Brunswick in 1992. She moved to Castle Senior Residence in Monroe in 2002. She was a bookkeeper at Gertz department store in Queens for…

  • GMCT seedings are thrown for a Lupo

    By: Ken Weingartner    When Monroe High’s Justin Lupo first saw the seeding for the heavyweight division at the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament, he thought he was done a disservice.    He later realized he might have been done a favor.    Lupo, who was seeded sixth despite a 17-1 record, finished second in the GMCT Saturday, losing…