• HILLSBOROUGH: High school seniors Hurley, Ravinder named National Merit Scholarship semifinalists  

    Kyle J. Hurley and Vinay A. Ravinder, both students at Hillsborough High School, are among approximately16,000 semifinalists in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The seniors will continue in the competition for some 7,400 National Merit Scholarships that will be offered next spring. About 90 percent of semifinalists are expected to attain finalist standing,…

  • CRANBURY: Three injured after pickup crashes into pizzeria

    CRANBURY: Three injured after pickup crashes into pizzeria

    By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor A pickup truck struck several patrons dining in front of Cranbury Pizza Saturday evening. Keith Maluchnick, 46 of East Brunswick, was operating a gray 1993 Ford F-250 pickup while traveling west on Park Place East at 7:40 p.m., according to Cranbury police. For reasons still under investigation, Mr. Maluchnick failed…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police chase, arrest 3 for car break-ins at Sourlands lot (Updated)

    HILLSBOROUGH: Police chase, arrest 3 for car break-ins at Sourlands lot (Updated)

    Three Florida men were chased and ultimately charged with burglary and theft for allegedly taking purses out of cars parked in the Sourlands Preserve lot on Saturday. Hillsborough police responded to a 9-1-1 call at about 11:44 a.m. of five vehicles broken into in the lot on East Mountain Road. The three men were identified…

  • Mudd Manuscript Library documents the life of Princeton University

    Mudd Manuscript Library documents the life of Princeton University

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Nestled on Olden Street, Mudd Manuscript Library operates on the Princeton University campus as a mini-Library of Congress. Inside an otherwise nondescript three-floor building are 220 million documents that a 10-member staff, a supervisor and student employees help keep in order. Historians, students and other users make up the…

  • PRINCETON: Now that there is labor peace, school district focus is squarely on education

    PRINCETON: Now that there is labor peace, school district focus is squarely on education

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Superintendent of Schools Steve Cochrane is about to open schools next week in a different environment and atmosphere than where he and the district were just nine months ago. The biggest difference: no more strife with the teachers about reaching a contract. The district will enjoy a time of…

  • ‘Gone With the Wind’ glorifies slave holding in the antebellum South

    Russ Weiss, West Windsor Yes, perhaps, “Gone with the Wind” is an “epic classic“ with “one of the all-time great movie couples.“ However, in proposing this as a Packet Pick you should have at least given some kind of mention to its egregious glorification of the slave-holding antebellum South. After all, the movie portrays a…

  • Help change parties of Princeton’s state legislators

    Scotia McRae, Princeton To the editor:  Many people in Princeton do not realize that their representatives in the New Jersey Senate and Assembly are all Republicans. Yes! It’s true. If you don’t believe me go to:http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/districtnumbers.asp#16. How did this happen? As a result of the 2010 national census, New Jersey State Legislative Districts were…

  • SOLUTIONS:

    By Huck Fairman  The town of Princeton, led by its recycling coordinator Janet Pellichero and John Marshall, president of the Princeton Merchants’ Association, is about to launch a new recycling bin campaign for downtown Princeton. The Public Works Department will be placing 10 new bins along Nassau and Witherspoon streets. These bins will have…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Cheerleaders selling 9-11 T-shirts

    HILLSBOROUGH: Cheerleaders selling 9-11 T-shirts

    Hillsborough High School cheerleaders are selling white T-shirts with a 9-11 theme. Orders need to be to Mark Brownlie by noon on Sunday, Sept. 6. All shirts are short sleeve and are $10 each (youth medium, youth large, and adult S, M, L, XL, XXL). Students and football fans will be wearing these for the…

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