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  • Nov. 29, 5:10 p.m.: Rt. 92 on shaky ground

    The Turnpike Authority signals a shift in priorities. By: Hank Kalet    It appears that the N.J. Turnpike Authority has finally done the right thing and put Route 92 on the backburner. Maybe now they’ll actually stick a fork in the proposal and put an end to it.    And don’t buy the notion that this is…

  • Hospital to relocate to FMC site in Plainsboro

    Site at Route 1 and Plainsboro Road selected By: David Campbell    The Princeton HealthCare System Board of Trustees voted late Monday night to build PHCS’s new $350 million state-of-the-art hospital campus on the site of the FMC Corporation Research Center located at Route 1 and Plainsboro Road in Plainsboro Township.    PHCS has scheduled a news…

  • The delicious taste of the Andes

    The food was exotic yet familiar, complex yet comforting… By: Pat Tanner    I am sometimes guilty, as a cook, of focusing on costly or exotic ingredients from distant shores, especially Europe and Asia, while overlooking equally intriguing ingredients from closer to home.    I was reminded of this recently when our Central New Jersey Slow Food…

  • Chamber’s plan would penalize hybrid owners

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Nov. 29 By: Packet Editorial    Let’s hope nobody in New Jersey, casting about for creative ways to replenish the near-bankrupt state Transportation Trust Fund, goes down the same road the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking in its quest to shore up the federal Highway Trust Fund.    The federal fund, it seems, is…

  • Stately Elegance

    The Newtown (Pa.) Historic Association presents its 43rd Annual Open House Tour. By: Megan Sullivan    In 1884, a woman named Sarah Cernea had her house built in Newtown, Pa., on a sizeable plot of land purchased for $600. The necessary materials to build her elegant home cost just more than $4,000. When walking along East…

  • Tigers finish off win

    Men’s hockey ends bad trend By: Justin Feil    Patrick Neundorfer enjoyed the success he had centering in his first game with his new linemates Darrell Powe and Brandan Kushniruk.    Quinnipiac wasn’t quite as fond of the combination as the threesome had a hand in four goals in the Princeton University men’s ice hockey team’s 6-3…

  • Tall, grande, venti and a fourth option: free parking

    Starbucks, on Nassau Street, to reserve an entire block as part of daylong celebration By: Marjorie Censer    Forget those holiday sweaters and fruitcakes. Starbucks will be celebrating the holidays Thursday — and wants to give Princeton customers a present they can really use.    Starbucks’ "Red Cup" parking promotion will offer drivers a free parking spot…

  • Rocky Hill Borough Council hears funding plea from library

    Mary Jacobs Library representatives seek doubling of donation to $12,000 By: Jake Uitti    ROCKY HILL — Representatives from the Mary Jacobs Library have asked the Borough Council to increase funding for the building’s operating expenses.    Tony Bianculli, a former mayor of Rocky Hill and current treasurer of the library’s trustees, appeared before the council last…

  • Powered up

    Princeton Power Systems makes steady strides, despite its youth By: Hilary Parker    PLAINSBORO — Princeton Power Systems is a young company, founded in Sept. 2001 by three recent Princeton University graduates. Despite its youth, however, its reach to date could be characterized as out of this world — literally.    Greg Olsen, a local entrepreneur and…