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  • Letters-Oct. 20, 2005

    Township Republican will vote Democratic To the editor:    I recently had the opportunity to sit down with both Betty Jane Hunt and Ron Shapella in my home to discuss the upcoming election for Township Committee and their views of the various issues affecting West Amwell.    Although I am a Republican, I do not feel the…

  • Obituaries

    John Savotti    MANVILLE — John Joseph Savotti, 91, died Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Somerset Medical Center.    Mr. Savotti was born in Princeton and resided in Montgomery Township.    He was a member of St. Alphonsus Church, Hopewell, the Knights of Columbus and was a chaplain with the Princeton Elks BPOE 2129.    Mr. Savotti retired from the…

  • Oct. 19, 2005

    Eleanor S. Suydam    Eleanor S. Suydam, 81, died in Monroe Village Care Center on Monday.    Born in Haddonfield, she was a resident of Pennington for 40 years before moving to Monroe Village last year.    A graduate of Pennington Central High School, she was involved in real estate for a number of years, owning her own…

  • Free gunlocks being distributed Friday at store

       WEST WINDSOR — Free gunlocks will be distributed at Dick’s Sporting Goods at Nassau Park shopping center Friday as part of a firearms safety education program by Project ChildSafe.    Project ChildSafe and the West Windsor Police Department will hand out educational brochures, children’s safety pledges, badges and bookmarks.    Project ChildSafe, created and managed by the…

  • New Princeton Township park ready for business

    Farmview Fields officially opens By: Rachel Silverman    Princeton’s newest park — recently named Farmview Fields — officially opened for public use Saturday afternoon.    The park, at The Great Road and Pretty Brook Road, offers 22 acres of baseball and soccer fields, a playground and bathrooms. An extensive network of existing and new walking and biking…

  • Tigers’ rally is topped

    PU football falls at Brown By: Justin Feil    Though for the second straight week, Jeff Terrell and the Princeton University showed the drive to succeed, they again did not actually execute the drive to succeed.    The Tigers, who fell behind, 13-0, three minutes into last week’s loss to Colgate, trailed Brown, 24-7, early in the…

  • Triple play

    Patriot Media adds phone service to its repertoire By: George Spohr    SOMERSET — As you walk into Patriot Media’s headquarters, you’re greeted by a plush sofa surrounded by TVs broadcasting high-definition digital programming.    Behind you, a customer-service representative coaxes a technophobe into resetting her cable modem so she can get back online.    And in many…

  • A golden age

    Bill Gates extols technology’s tranforming ways in talk at university By: David Campbell    We are living in a "golden age" of software technology in which today’s college students are poised to transform the ways people worldwide live, work and play, Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates told listeners at Princeton University on Friday.    "There are…

  • Briefcase

    Issue of Oct. 18, 2005 By: George Spohr Lightwave, IBM team on detection    CRANBURY — Princeton Lightwave, a manufacturer of high-performance optical semiconductor components, has licensed IBM’s single-photon detection technology.    An SPD is an essential component of quantum cryptography systems, which enable extremely secure communications, even in the presence of eavesdropping.    Quantum cryptography systems are…