• MONTGOMERY: Board debates merits of moving school election date

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — The Montgomery Board of Education discussed the benefits, disadvantages and impacts of moving the April school election to November at the Jan. 24 board meeting at the Upper Middle School Media Center.    ”We have an opportunity tonight to discuss this among ourselves,” said board President Christine Ross. “We…

  • Institute housing would not detract from park

    Lewis L. Maltby, Princeton To the editor: It is vitally important that any new construction at the Institute for Advanced Study not detract from the dignity of the Battlefield Park. The faculty and friends of the institute (of whom I am one) understand the importance of honoring our history.    The proposed new faculty housing at…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Dowtown businesses express their fears

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Princeton business owners are worried the traffic diversions on Route 1could hurt their businesses and some are banding together to take a stance on the issue.    The Princeton Merchants Association (PMA) is assembling a task force from within its membership and board of directors to deal with possible impacts to…

  • County conducts annual study of homeless people

       Middlesex County conducted its Point-in-Time Count 2012 survey throughout the county’s 25 municipalities on Jan. 25.    This annual survey assists in developing a snapshot of the number of homeless persons living unsheltered outside, in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs.    ”This event is essential to our role as caring, humane communities and people,” said Middlesex…

  • PRINCETON: Fifth graders learn to make bread

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    Move over Betty Crocker — Princeton’s fifth graders now know a thing or two about baking bread.    A total of 226 fifth graders from Littlebrook, Community Park, Riverside and Johnson Park Elementary Schools united for the first time in the Littlebrook School gymnasium on Jan. 18 to learn how to…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

       — On Jan. 17, at approximately 12:55 p.m., police responded to a two-vehicle accident on Route 179 just north of the Queen Road intersection. Anthony Lorenzoni, 43, of Hopewell, was driving south and making a left turn into a private driveway when his vehicle was struck in the rear by a southbound vehicle driven by…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Jughandle meetings draw ire

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert and Heather Niccoli, Staff Writers    Residents flocked to West Windsor and Princeton Borough municipal complexes this week to grill state Department of Transportation (DOT) officials about the closure of Route 1 jughandles this March at Harrison Street and Washington Road.    The closure is a DOT experiment to see if the measure would…

  • YMCA community honors legacy, spirit of late coach

    Metuchen woman inspired others as she coached swim team over past six years BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Gloria Liu, of the South Amboy YMCA swim team, competes in the girls 9-10 100-yard butterfly race during the Ryan Patterson Memorial Winter Classic Swim Meet. Ryan Marie Patterson was viewed by many as the heart and…

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    The Middlesex County Department of Parks & Recreation is seeking teams for its annual Board of Chosen Freeholders Basketball Tournament, which starts in early March. This year’s tournament will be held at the Middlesex County Vocational- Technical School, 21 Suttons Lane in Piscataway. The tournament will consist of four divisions: Youth Division No. 1, for…

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