• PRINCETON: School aide wins statewide award

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    Patricia Scott, an instructional aide at Johnson Park School in Princeton, was named 2011 Child Care Worker of the Year for New Jersey for the Central Jersey Region by the New Jersey Alliance for Children, Youth and Families for her work with Angel’s Wings, an area crisis shelter for abused…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Bomb scare empties store

    By Doug Carman, Staff Writer    EAST WINDSOR — The T.J. Maxx store at East Windsor Village was evacuated for about two hours Monday afternoon after an unidentified caller threatened to bomb the clothing store, East Windsor Police Lt. Harry Marshall said in a news release.    Police were called at 4:20 p.m. Monday, and immediately searched…

  • Bullying university makes no sense

    Dave Saltzman, Princeton Princeton University owes the borough and township nothing.    Simply demanding that the university increase non-mandatory PILOT (payments in lieu of taxes) payments seems like a hostile gambit for a municipal leader (or candidate for office). And being surprised that there is a nexus between PILOT payments and municipal decision-making is to be…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: ‘Historical detective’ enthralls students

    UPPER FREEHOLD: ‘Historical detective’ enthralls students

    Award-winning author Jim Murphy visited Stone Bridge Middle School on March 25 to discuss the writing process. Language arts classes have been reading his book about the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, “An American Plague,” and were excited to have the chance to ask him questions about how he does his research for his…

  • EDITORIAL: Impressive grant goes to McCarter

       Thumbs up to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which is giving the McCarter Theatre a whopping $425,000 for two big projects.    The projects are an adaptation of the Phaedra myth by Irish playwright Marina Carr and a new translation and adaptation of the Beaumarchais’ Figaro trilogy by Stephen Wadsworth.    During the process, the theater will…

  • PRINCETON: Goldfarb gets most PCDO votes

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    No candidate for borough mayor was given a full endorsement at the Princeton Community Democratic Organization’s standing room only meeting on Sunday night.    Councilman David Goldfarb was given the recommendation of the organization to be placed in the Democratic column on the primary ballot, but without the official slogan because…

  • Chief of pediatrics at Saint Peter’s
  • PLAINSBORO: Queenship of Mary to be home in time for Easter

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — “We’re going home!” the Rev. Robert Medley announced to his parishioners on Sunday.    Just in time for Easter, the doors of the Queenship of Mary church will reopen on Saturday for mass and activities. The parishioners were displaced for the past three months for major repairs to the…

  • Chief of pediatrics at Saint Peter’s

    Chief of pediatrics at Saint Peter’s

    By NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.:Bipin Patel, MD, chair of pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, will be honored as the special physician champion at the first annual New Jersey Children’s Ball, “Kids in the Spotlight … Broadway Sings,’’ to be held at 6 p.m., April 30, at Jasna Polana golf club in…

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