• EAST WINDSOR: New Indian market opens

    EAST WINDSOR: New Indian market opens

    By Amy Batista Special Writer EAST WINDSOR — A new Indian marketplace that offers fresh produce, groceries, spices, specialty items and more just opened in the township. Patel Brothers Grocery Chain opened its 50th store in East Windsor last week. The market occupies 22,000 square feet in the former Genuardi’s location in the East Windsor…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Record crowd turns out for YMCA Hop 5K

    HILLSBOROUGH: Record crowd turns out for YMCA Hop 5K

    A record number of runners rose early to beat the summer heat Saturday at the 15th annual Hillsborough YMCA Hop 5K, a benefit race for the Y. A total of 1,357 registered runners, ranging in age from 5 to 82, participated. The runners warmed up to music before Hillsborough Mayor Douglas Tomson fired the starting…

  • HOPEWELL: Travel soccer round-up

    After going 2-2 in the HoVal Memorial Day Tournament, the HVSA U9 Sun Dogs took a 3-0 win over Branchburg on the strength of three first-half goals. Catherine von Oehsen, Katie Yancey and Ashton Bridges scored with Gillian Magner assisting Yancey. Excellent defense was provided by Frankie Somers, Brooke Hutchison and Ana Chrnelich. Goalkeeper Maddie…

  • HOPEWELL: Youth baseball round-up

    MAJORS: The Mets took an 18-10 win over the Phillies behind big hits from Jerome Swindel and Colee Garrow. Tom Belsky stole numerous bases for the Phils. The Yankees took an 8-6 win over the Orioles as Jake Loughery had a two-run double. Dhruv Indelicato had a double and two-run triple for the O’s. The…

  • Speak out to make best use of Lytle Street property

    John Heilner, Princeton Over the past two months a group of residents has sought a compromise solution for 31-33 Lytle St. that would retain the porch, facade, character and scale of its 1870s house, provide two units of badly needed affordable housing, and still expand Mary Moss Playground (MMP) which has occupied the corner of…

  • PRINCETON: Class Day ceremony attempts to link Batman to university

    PRINCETON: Class Day ceremony attempts to link Batman to university

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Filmmaker Christopher Nolan told Princeton University seniors on Monday to chase their realities as they look to improve the world. Mr. Nolan, the keynote speaker at the annual Class Day ceremony, told an audience sitting in the university Chapel and watching by video feed that speeches like the one…

  • PRINCETON: Around the Horn: Despite the battle, Tiger alumni are winners

    PRINCETON: Around the Horn: Despite the battle, Tiger alumni are winners

    By Mike Morsch, Packet Media Group The last group to take the stage at Princeton University’s eighth annual Battle of the Alumni Bands during the recent Reunions weekend was called 3 Guys Named Burt — which, of course, consisted of two guys named Dave and one guy named Hugh — that performed an original song…

  • Princeton Shopping Center owner looks to aquire vacant property

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer New York real estate firm George Comfort & Sons, the former owner of the Princeton Shopping Center, will look to acquire about 4.5 acres of vacant land on the shopping center property that is zoned for senior housing. A proposal to subdivide the land was filed with the municipal…

  • LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP: ‘Swatting’ hoax targets Quaker Bridge Mall

    LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP: ‘Swatting’ hoax targets Quaker Bridge Mall

    The Quaker Bridge Mall became the latest “victim” of a swatting hoax Thursday night when the mall’s security office received a call reporting that there was an explosive device in the food court area, according to the Lawrence Township Police Department. The call, which was received at 6:28 p.m., came from what appeared to be…

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