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  • Princeton’s newest park to open Saturday

    Celebration at The Great Road and Pretty Brook Road to include unveiling of the 22-acre tract’s name By: Rachel Silverman    Princeton’s newest park, located at The Great Road and Pretty Brook Road, will open to the public Saturday.    The 22-acre park, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Princeton Joint Recreation Department, offers baseball and…

  • Obesity is second only to smoking as a preventable cause of death in the U.S.

    Last year, about 140,000 people in the United States had weight-loss surgery By: Robert E. Brolin, M.D. in Collaboration with Gloria N. Beck    Surgery to treat severe obesity received a great deal of press in the late ’90s and early ’00s when celebrities including Al Roker and Carnie Wilson came forward to tout their successful…

  • Starting the new year on a high note

    For the congregants of the Monroe Township Jewish Center, 5766 is looking like a good year. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — The new year was only a few hours old, but the consensus among many of those walking up Cornell Avenue, away from Congregation Etz Chaim, the Monroe Township Jewish Center, at about 1 p.m.…

  • Area police patrol a grim world

    Officers from a number of departments deploy to Louisiana By: Emily Craighead    Princeton Borough and West Windsor Township police have experience answering 911 emergency phone calls — they’re just not used to answering them in a hurricane zone a month after the calls were placed.    "So many (calls) came in on the day of the…

  • For the week of October 7, 2005

    Charles Thomas Sr.    EAST WINDSOR — Charles Thomas Sr., 60, died Sept. 29 at Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton.    Born in New Brunswick, he lived in East Windsor the past 28 years. He was manager the past 22 years of Wynbrook West in East Windsor for Kreigman and Smith Property…

  • Perhaps a wild and crazy guy, but a literate one as well

    Steve Martin reads from his works during Princeton University visit By: Kara Fitzpatrick    Even before he set foot on the stage, Steve Martin had the audience laughing.    After a flattering introduction by author Joyce Carol Oates, Mr. Martin rose from his first-row seat and walked briskly toward the door. With the audience howling, Mr. Martin…

  • Louis Kahn’s Roosevelt Legacy

    An architectural walking tour will be followed by a screening of ‘My Architect.’ By: Susan Van Dongen    On a spectacular autumn morning, Roosevelt resident and historian Allan Mallach walks a visitor down the middle of the village’s streets, discussing the boxy little concrete homes along the way. They may not look like much to a…

  • PU looks for springboard to success

    Tigers football plays host to Colgate in final non-league tilt By: Justin Feil    For the first time this season, the Princeton University football team will face a team that has been beaten.    The Tigers can’t identify. They’re looking for their first 4-0 start since 1995 when Colgate visits Princeton Stadium 1 p.m. Saturday. Princeton comes…

  • Saying farewell to her home away from home

    Cranbury postal worker retires after 30 years. By: Jessica Beym    Although she doesn’t live here, Joyce Campbell can easily call Cranbury home and the people in town would gladly call Ms. Campbell family.    For 30 years, Ms. Campbell has been a familiar face behind the window of the Cranbury Post Office. People, young and old…