• WEST WINDSOR: Pirates regain bragging rights

    WEST WINDSOR: Pirates regain bragging rights

    West Windsor-Plainsboro High South senior Sylvan Zheng won the butterfly to help the Pirates to a 92-78 win over Steinert in the Central Jersey A Division tournament. Photo by John Blaine

  • Task Force needs to re-invent government

    Roger Martindell, Member, Princeton Borough Council To the editor: The newly appointed Consolidation Transition Task Force has the opportunity to do more than merely smooth the way to a consolidated Princeton. It has the chance to re-invent how Princeton delivers municipal services. We residents and taxpayers should ask no less and should enthusiastically support that…

  • PRINCETON: Food waste program coming to borough

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Princeton Borough residents will have an option to reduce their garbage and save the municipality money with a new food waste composting program expanding to their town.    Borough Councilwoman Heather Howard already participates in the program and gladly pays $20 per month out of pocket for it, even though trash…

  • PRINCETON: Tree panel had a busy year

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    The Princeton Borough Shade Tree Commission had a busy year last year and is looking to expand to continue its work in one last busy year before consolidation, said Polly Burlingham, outgoing chair of the commission as she gave the group’s annual report at last week’s Borough Council meeting.    Twenty-two…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Local educators weigh in on both sides of charter schools bills

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    Two controversial charter school reform bills are working their way to the full Assembly after the Assembly Education Committee approved them at a Feb. 2 hearing.    The first bill would require a public referendum before the establishment or expansion of new charter schools.    The other would increase charter school educational…

  • WEST WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO: School board votes to keep April election

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Board of Education on Feb. 7 joined the ranks of those New Jersey public schools that have decided to keep the annual school election in April.    The board agreed to take a cautious approach and observe the impacts on the districts that chose to consolidate elections…

  • MONTGOMERY: Fire causes minor damage in Montgomery

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Volunteer fire stations from Montgomery, Rocky Hill, Hopewell and Hillsborough responded to a first alarm fire at the Secondary School Admission Test building at 862 Route 518 in Skillman on the evening of Feb. 12.    Bill Ballinger, chief of the Montgomery Fire Company No. 2, reported that no…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    Plainsboro    Zach Boyler, 28, of Helmetta, was charged with theft and possession of prescription drugs at the CVS of Plainsboro between October 2011 and Feb. 8. Mr. Boyler, an employee at CVS, admitted to stealing more than 800 hydrocodone tablets since October 2011, with an approximate worth of $1,600. He was sent to the Middlesex…

  • MONROE: Police shoot a man in Monroe

       MONROE — A Monroe police officer shot a man in the township on Feb. 9 because he refused to put down a gun.    Ronald Richards, 69, of Toms River, was found with a gun in a vehicle parked outside a home on Polonia Ct. off Spotswood-Englishtown Rd. in northern Monroe. Police said an officer, whose…

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