• HIGHTSTOWN: EDC meeting habots, influence spur sharp words

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer        HIGHTSTOWN — The Borough Council has put the brakes on a proposal that would reduce the number of required meetings of the ever-increasingly controversial Economic Development Committee.        The ordinance — which the council voted 4-2 against introducing March 2 — would have changed the committee’s bylaws so that…

  • CRANBURY: A.J. best when it meant the most

    Cranbury’s Dowers sparkled in PHS state wins By Bob Nuse, The Packet Group    For A.J. Dowers, the final week of his Princeton High basketball career was pretty close to perfect.    The Cranbury resident put together two of the best games of his career last week, helping the Little Tigers to victories over Point Pleasant Boro…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Pirates are CJ IV champions

    WEST WINDSOR: Pirates are CJ IV champions

    Chris Johnson drives for two points in West Windsor-Plainsboro South’s 48-41 win over Freehold Township for the CJ IV championship Monday. Photo by Dick Druckman (goldmedalimpressions.com)

  • MONTGOMERY: Top seed topples Cougars

    MHS girls’ run ends in sectional hoops final By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    NORTH BRUNSWICK — The Montgomery High School girls basketball team made a season of making opponents uncomfortable.    In the Central Jersey Group IV final Tuesday, it was the Cougars of Colts Neck that got the Cougars of Montgomery out of sorts.…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Pirates are CJ IV champions

    WEST WINDSOR: Pirates are CJ IV champions

    Title is first since 1980 for South boys By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    TRENTON — It was all about defense for the West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys basketball team.    All season long the Pirates have won because of their defense. And that was the case again Monday night when they topped Freehold Township, 48-41, to capture…

  • Ensemble La Fiocco Concert April 4, 2009

    Ensemble La Fiocco Concert April 4, 2009

    By Michelle Cosgrove Join the Bucks County period instrument group La Fiocco for a concert of music of the late baroque.  Saturday, April 4, 2009, at 8:00 PM, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 50 York Street, Lambertville, New Jersey.  Hear works of Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Jean-Marie Leclair, Georg Phillip Telemann, Antoine Dornel, Johann Sebastian Bach, and son…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Weapons charges follow initial arrests

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer     A 20-year-old East Windsor man was charged this week with possession of an illegal gun and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in a school zone.     Amoie Smith, 20, of Chestnut Willow Apartments, was arrested at his home Tuesday for allegedly possessing a pistol-grip shotgun with a…

  • MONROE: Emburgia, Tyson learn lessons at wrestling states

    By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor    The trip was quicker than either Allen Rushing or Sam Emburgia expected, but sometimes that’s life in the fast lane.    Wrestling as a No. 3 seed in the 125-pound weight class at the NJSIAA State Championships in Atlantic City, Emburgia lost two straight and was home by Saturday evening. Both…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Not-guilty plea filed in Giordano murder case

    By Sean Ruppert, Staff Writer    TRENTON — The Millstone man accused of the 2007 murder and dismemberment of Amy Giordano in her Hightstown apartment formally entered a plea of not guilty this week.    Rosario DiGirolamo, 34, entered his plea to charges of first-degree murder and fourth-degree tampering with evidence before Superior Court Judge Darlene Pereksta…

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