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  • 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…

  • Philly, local chambers seek to create synergy

    Chambers work together in Mercer County By: Mike Mathis    Mark S. Schweiker is reaching across the Delaware River for a helping hand.    And those on the New Jersey side have been happy to accept it.    Mr. Schweiker, a former governor of Pennsylvania who is president and CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, has…

  • Princeton University athletes to ‘adopt’ needy area families

    Forty-five teams and about 1,000 students are participating By: Daivd Campbell    Athletes in Action, a Christian organization on the Princeton University campus, is spreading some holiday gift-giving cheer among the area’s needy families this year.    This is the sixth year of the nonprofit group’s Teams and Toys holiday service project.    In this annual effort, Athletes…

  • Fine art auction Sunday to benefit Red Cross

       One deals with beauty, the other with disaster. But two very different nonprofits are working together to achieve a common goal — to raise the funds necessary to keep their educational processes alive.    On Sunday from 5 to 7:30 p.m., the American Red Cross of Central New Jersey will present "An Evening with Maestro Nelson…

  • WW-P South tops Cards for 10th win

    Football team was led by seniors By: Bob Nuse    For Todd Smith, it was all about his seniors buying into a new program. Once they did that, the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South football team was ready to rewrite the school record book.    The Pirates capped off the most successful season in school history on Saturday…

  • Briefcase

    Issue of Nov. 29, 2005 By: George Spohr AccuMed to fill Trenton warehouse    LAWRENCE — AccuMed Inc., a manufacturer and developer of over-the-counter pharmaceutical tablets, powders, liquids and edible breath-strip products, has acquired additional storage and manufacturing space with financing assistance from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Sun National Bank.    The EDA made…

  • Milestones

    Issue of Nov. 29, 2005 By: Sara Carpenter GOOD DEEDS    Community Options Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb kicked off Community Options’ inaugural program, The Days of Caring. Volunteers from the two companies spent the day working on the interior and exterior of a COI group home in Ewing.    The Bristol-Myers Squibb volunteer team consisted of information-technology…

  • Not so friendly Jadwin

    PU hoops loses second By: Justin Feil    Noah Savage knows all about the Jadwin Gym mystique.    The Hun School graduate has been going to games there since he was little. Now he plays in Jadwin and he wants to get back the aura for the Princeton University men’s basketball team after its second straight loss…

  • Kate Spade’s new digs draw raves

    Upscale women’s handbag store opens on Palmer Square just in time for holiday buying season By: Marjorie Censer    To say the new Kate Spade store in Palmer Square was highly anticipated would be an understatement — at least for some customers.    One woman knocked on the glass of the store Sunday and pointed out the…