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  • Referendum is investment for all residents

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 20 By: Packet Editorial    Tuesday’s $25.2 million referendum to upgrade facilities in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District — and a second question asking for an additional $2.3 million to convert the two high schools’ playing fields to synthetic turf — represent more than an opportunity to maintain the district’s record of…

  • WW-P district slates kindergarten signups

       The West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District will hold kindergarten registration for the 2006-2007 school year from March 14-16.    To be eligible, a child must be 5 years of age on or before Oct. 1. A physical examination is required for entrance into kindergarten. In order to complete registration, the following documents must be presented: an…

  • MCIA eyes Monroe properties

    Middlesex county set to negotiate the purchasing of five sites for preservation. By:Leon Tovey    MONROE — Middlesex County is moving ahead with plans to purchase more than 140 acres in Monroe, the first step toward preserving more than 1,700 acres as open space in the township by the end of the year.    Jane Leal, a…

  • First glimpse given of Princeton High School renovations

    Construction of much of the huge project is expected to be completed later this semester By: David Campbell    Princeton Regional Schools officials offered a first glimpse this week of the expansion now under way at Princeton High School.    In 2001, Princeton voters approved the $81.3 million district-wide school renovation and expansion project that is now…

  • Monroe drops the puck for new JV squad

    Interest in ice hockey leads to new Monroe Township High School junior varsity team. By:Leon Tovey    MONROE — Ice hockey junkies in the township who don’t enjoy driving clear to East Rutherford, Trenton, Princeton or Philadelphia to get their fix now have another option: the Monroe Township High School Falcons junior varsity hockey team.    The…

  • Woodland Garden in Winter

    Evelyn Domjan shares her ethereal view of the world at the Hungarian Museum By:Indrani Datta    Drawn by blooming magnolia trees, blue skies and flowers, Evelyn Domjan tackled her first landscape at age 7. Now, decades later, she laughs at her outsized ambition. "I was always an artist," she says. "Art is my life."    Her work…

  • 2006 Pontiac Solstice

    …it may be better suited as a Summer Solstice than a Winter Solstice By: Mike Blake    One of the most exciting cars on the highway for 2006 is Pontiac’s new Solstice. It is a head-turner with unmistakably awesome styling. This is a roadster with sex appeal, but as a Solstice, it may be better suited…

  • West Windsor garbage contract approved for $2.7 million

    Five-year pact OK’d By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council on Tuesday approved a five-year, $2.7 million contract with Central Jersey Waste & Recycling for solid waste collection services.    The township will pay $535,742 each of the first three years of the contract and $551,584 during the last two years of the contract.…

  • Students set on tech front

    The use of Apple computer programs GarageBand and iMovie in Cranbury School is a success. By: Jessica Beym    Arthur Zysk could easily call himself a musician, a composer, a director, an actor and a producer. And he’s just 13.    A few weeks ago, Cranbury School music teacher Tommy Nichols found a CD sitting on his…