Category: archives
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‘Operation Friend’ collects clothes for families
Montgomery group plans a truck convoy to aid a Southern school system By: Kara Fitzpatrick MONTGOMERY Officials have pinned down drop-off locations for materials being donated to "Operation Friend," an effort by the local school district and the township to offer aid to those displaced by Hurricane Katrina. According to Tammy Garaffa, township information…
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‘The Constant Gardener’
This documentary lookalike shows the stark reality of a situation we’d like to ignore that millions are dying in Africa so that some Westerners may live. By Bob Brown "It’S a documentary," the man mutters as the lights come up. He can be forgiven for thinking so. Based on John Le Carré’s best-selling novel…
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Back into the swing of things
Jamesburg High opens its doors for the first day of school. By: Leon Tovey JAMESBURG At 11:20 a.m. Wednesday, the first day of school, the 55 students who make up Jamesburg’s contingent of the high school graduating Class of 2013 left their classrooms and went to lunch, much as most of them had for…
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Oral history project recalls a growing, changing Princeton
Evergreen Forum seeks recollections from the late 1940s and early 1950s By: David Campbell The Princeton community underwent an unprecedented transformation in the years following World War II. The population grew and diversified by leaps and bounds, and the landscape, both physical and social, changed with it. Among the courses being offered this fall by…
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Finding help for victims
Residents do what they can to aid those hit by hurricane. By: Josh Appelbaum An ad-hoc group of residents led the charge to help victims of Hurricane Katrina over the Labor Day weekend Cranbury resident Judy Buckley organized an impromptu bake sale to coincide with the Cranbury Swim Club’s annual Labor Day Party. The event…
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Change tomorrow by joining Heart Walk
LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the editor: Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women. According to the American Heart Association, a woman is 10 times as likely to die from heart disease as from breast cancer. Nearly 500,000 women die each year in our country due to cardiovascular disease, including almost 15,000…
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SPECIAL REPORTNew affordable-housing regulations burden Princeton Borough
Non-residential construction now imposes additional commitment from officials By: Marjorie Censer As a new science library rises on the campus of Princeton University on Washington Road, many watch with great anticipation. But some Princeton Borough officials have reason to feel a sense of dread a sense that this building, and non-residential buildings all over…
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Drive-by donors overwhelm Rocky Hill
Roadside collection nets nearly $5,000 for Katrina victims By: Kara Fitzpatrick ROCKY HILL Members of the Rocky Hill Community Group raised nearly $5,000 for those affected by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in a spontaneous effort that revealed the generosity of motorists traveling through the borough. After growing frustrated while watching the tragedy unfold…
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PU men’s cross country heads to Heps course
Young Tigers looking for experience Saturday By: Justin Feil The Princeton University men’s cross country will return to the scene of its biggest disappointment last season when it opens this fall at Van Cortlandt Park at the Fordham Invitational 10 a.m. Saturday. Last year, the Tigers finished sixth at the Heptagonals at Van Cortlandt, their…
