Month: August 2003

  • A nation’s memoirs

    Princeton’s archives hold many secrets. By: Jeff Milgram    John Foster Dulles is out.    George Ball and the American Civil Liberties Union are in.    So says Dan Linke, archivist at Princeton University’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, which maintains the archives of Mr. Dulles, Mr. Ball and the ACLU.    Now that the Cold War is a…

  • Recalling Dr. King’s 1963 march on Washington

    By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Forty years ago Thursday, Deborah Wolfe of Monroe Village was on the speakers’ platform and took part in the program when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C.    The emotion of the day and the impact of Dr. King’s speech,…

  • Officials promise schools’ opening won’t be delayed

    "Things are not going to look perfect," Princeton school board president concedes. By: Jeff Milgram    Princeton Regional Schools officials hope to get temporary certificates of occupancy today, or by Tuesday at the latest, and expect to open schools on Wednesday that are "a safe and healthy environment."    "They’re confident that we’ll get the work done,"…

  • University ranks No. 1 in ‘best colleges’ report

       As far as U.S. News & World Report is concerned, Princeton University is still No. 1.    The latest ranking of the magazine’s best American colleges placed Princeton at the top of the list for the fourth year in a row.    The magazine ranked Princeton and Harvard first in the "national university-doctoral" category, which includes research…

  • Candidates Forum, Aug. 29

    Jim FirestoneCitizens Fusion Party candidate,Princeton Borough Council By:     Your Borough Council would do a better job if I were elected. For one thing, I’d be able to represent you in their closed meetings. That’s where ideas are discussed and preliminary decisions made. It’s often where policies are won or lost. You need a voice…

  • WW-P OKs changes to language curricula

    Board gives final approval in conjunction with new schedules. By: Gwen McNamara    In coordination with new high school and middle school schedules, teachers and administrators in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District have been hard at work over the summer creating new curricula for a wide variety of classes.    On Tuesday, their hard work paid…

  • Tally of the presidential dolls

    REALITY CHECK, Aug. 29 By: Dawn Cariello    This September, the "Elite Force Aviator: George W. Bush — U.S. President and Naval Aviator" action figure is coming to a toy store near you. The doll commemorates George "I’m not a Navy pilot, I just play one on TV" Bush’s mother-of-all-photo-ops landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln…

  • Board hears PRC proposal

    By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — The Greenbriar at Stonebridge was in line to become the township’s ninth age-restricted community Thursday night.    The proposed 1,000-unit planned adult community was to be considered by the Monroe Township Planning Board Thursday, after The Cranbury Press’ afternoon deadline.    Representatives of the developers U.S. Homes Corp., also known as Lori…

  • Officials worry new Montgomery High won’t be ready

    Project remains behind schedule despite efforts to speed work. By: Paul Sisolak    MONTGOMERY — Construction of the township’s new high school, though progressing, still remains behind schedule, according to Montgomery Board of Education Business Administrator and Construction Coordinator Jim Strimple.    At Tuesday’s board meeting, Mr. Strimple said the projected completion date for the school is…