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  • Glen Echo Books takes on new niche

    New bookstore coming to Princeton By: Marjorie Censer    PRINCETON — Chicklet Books is bright and sunny, lined with wooden bookcases and window seats. Glen Echo Books, on the other hand, will be almost cave-like.    As Deb Hunter, owner of Chicklet Books in Hillsborough, prepares to open her new store, Glen Echo Books on Nassau Street,…

  • Draft guidelines prepared for NPDC plan

    Plan outlines roads, building demolition By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — In a presentation in front of the Township Committee on Thursday, planner Richard Coppolla outlined the progress of a master plan document draft relating to the North Princeton Developmental Center, which the township is slated to buy from the state.    Although the NPDC master plan…

  • Teacher takes ‘novel’ approach

    West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North teacher Jamie McCulloch balances career, passion By: Emily Craighead    Like many English majors, Jamie McCulloch began writing the "Great American Novel" in college.    Then he graduated, started a radio station with a friend and worked as a paralegal before becoming an English teacher. The novel languished, but his literary career…

  • Sept. 20, 11:22 p.m.: Good ideas and poetry

    Sharon Olds refuses an invite to the White House, among other bits of news. By: Hank Kalet    Here is the best idea I’ve come across in years. * * *    Once again, the poets lead the way. * * *    A reminder: Our poetry and music fund-raising project, Voices of Reason, is still available. A…

  • Program to offer instruction in foreign languages for children

    The younger the pupil, the more easily the language is learned By: Emily Craighead    WEST WINDSOR — Ana Lomba, a published author of foreign-language books for young children, knows it’s never too early to learn another language.    Her own children, ages 3, 7 and 9, speak Spanish with her and English with their father. Now…

  • OBITUARIES, Sept. 20, 2005

    James H. Welsh Jr., Patricia L. Tobin, Elizabeth B. Hague James H. Welsh Jr. Worked at U Store     PENNINGTON — James H. Welsh Jr. died Sunday at Care One Ewing after a 6½-year struggle with prostate cancer. He was 60.    A resident of Pennington, he graduated from Hopewell Valley Central High School in 1963…

  • Break time

    Program encourages ‘gap year’ to prevent school burnout By: Marjorie Censer    In a town focused on going to college, Holly Bull has a different concern: students not going to college.    As president of the Princeton-based Center for Interim Programs, Ms. Bull helps students take what’s commonly known as a "gap year" — or a year…

  • Juel Lynette Kling

       Juel Lynette Kling, 80, of Surfside Beach, S.C., died Aug. 29 in South Carolina.    Born in Chicago, Ill., she was the daughter of the late John E. and Julia Meier Petersen.    Mrs. Kling was a former resident of Westfield, Fanwood and Titusville. When she retired from the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, she moved…

  • Milestones

    Issue of Sept. 20, 2005 By: Sara Carpenter HEALTH & MEDICINE    Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey recently elected four members to its board of trustees. The board oversees the provision of in-home and community-based services to Middlesex County residents. Area residents among those elected are Barton P. Blumberg of East Windsor and Marianne C.…