• PLAINSBORO: North golf gets into the swing

    Girls posting lowest scores By Michael Stern, Special Writer    In a new golf season it is rare for a young team to score as low as 210 in their first few matches. It is even rarer to have four straight matches lower than that score.    This is exactly what the West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North…

  • EDITORIAL: A time of change is upon us

       There is a lot happening in East Windsor and Hightstown these days.    One may think the early springtime weather would produce days for relaxing by a neighborhood pond underneath newly blossomed trees.    However, there’s been more than a light breeze of late.    The winds of dry, warm air have propelled countless fires throughout New Jersey…

  • BOOKNOTES: Author urges young writers to ‘persevere’

    BOOKNOTES: Author urges young writers to ‘persevere’

    By Joan Ruddiman Readers love good writers. A secret dream of many is to be a writer. But do we have any idea what it takes to get published, let alone, to be a successful author? Wendy Mass is an author, with more than a dozen published books and by accepted standards, is successful. Her…

  • Liz Lempert should be mayor

    Wendy Kaczerski, Princeton To the editor: Liz Lempert supports public education, smart growth, environmental protection and social justice, and she knows how to bring people together to resolve difficult issues. That’s why I support her for mayor. She is open-minded, fair, pragmatic and gets things done, as evidenced by her founding Save Our Schools, preserving…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: District to mandate tests for select Kreps students, staff post single tuberculosis case

    By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor    EAST WINDSOR — Parents received a surprising e-mail from Melvin H. Kreps Middle School Principal Lori Stein last night on April 19.    The letter stated that one case of tuberculosis had been reported at Kreps and it cited local and state health departments per that determination.    The Herald has requested detailed information…

  • JAMESBURG: Mendoker’s celebrates 80 years

    JAMESBURG: Mendoker’s celebrates 80 years

    Amy Batista photo Nicole Mendoker, co-owner of Mendoker’s Bakery, is celebrating the bakery’s 80th anniversary this month in a big way.

  • WHAT’S GOING ON: Week of April 20

    Fri, April 20 Dinner dance: The Animal Friends for Education and Welfare’s annual Twistin’ Your Tails Away with the Fabulous Greaseband! dinner dance will be the Hamilton Manor, Hamilton, at 7:30 p.m.. Tickets are $40 in advance or $50 at the door. Event includes plated dinner, cash bars, a 50/50 raffle and more. Proceeds to…

  • Decades of bravos

    Decades of bravos

    Princeton University conductor Michael Pratt. Photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Decades of bravos

    Decades of bravos

    Princeton University conductor Michael Pratt. Photo by Mark Czajkowski

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