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  • AROUND CRANBURY: Getting ready for Art in the Park

    AROUND CRANBURY By Lorraine Sedor College graduate receives accolades.    The accolades amassed by Catherine Paige Swartz at commencement ceremonies were many and well deserved.    Catherine graduated magna cum laude from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston (MCP), earning a Doctor of Pharmacy and Bachelor of Science in Health Psychology. She is one…

  • New signs suggested for hospital property

    Colors become contentious issue. By: Marjorie Censer    The Site Plan Review Advisory Board of the Princeton Regional Planning Board recommended approval Wednesday of new signage for Princeton House and the University Medical Center at Princeton.    The board made several changes to the proposal presented by Princeton HealthCare System and emphasized consistency and clarity.    At the…

  • Crawford and McKee

    Ruth P. Crawford    Ruth Pressinger Crawford, 94, of Vero Beach, Fla. and formerly of Hopewell Township, died May 30.    Born in New York City, she and her husband resided at the Old Green Farm on Woosamonsa Road in Hopewell Township from 1949 to 1972, when they retired to Florida.    She was a volunteer for Recording…

  • MOC becomes Senior Day

    McKinley leads trio of male medallists By: Justin Feil    SOUTH PLAINFIELD — Senior experience proved best even if none of the 16 Packet-area competitors had ever been to the NJSIAA Track and Field Meet of Champions before Wednesday.    The senior threesome of Tom McKinley, Brad Forbes and Chris Kondorossy corralled three medals, given to the…

  • For the June 10 issue.

    Alice K. Palumbo, Peter Quigley, Jeannette Worthington, Gia Marie Kakas, Jackie D. Russo, Jane W. Cope. Alice K. Palumbo    WEST WINDSOR — Alice K. Palumbo, 59, died Sunday at University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Kessab, Syria, she was a resident of the Princeton area for 35 years.    Mrs. Palumbo was a graduate of…

  • PRESS FORUM: Should the state ban smoking in public places?

    PRESS FORUM Join the debate.    The Cranbury Press is hosting a weekly forum that allow readers and users of the World Wide Web to offer their opinions on a variety of issues.    The forum is designed to encourage debate and to offer the community information about the direction residents of Cranbury, Jamesburg and Monroe want…

  • Balmy business

    Montgomery entrepreneur sells and rents palm trees — and it’s the talk of the town. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — It’s hard to blame snoopy motorists for succumbing to an almost instinctive urge to veer off the pavement and find out why 30 visions of pure paradise are lined up along Route 206.    Yes, Randy…

  • JFK teacher says goodbye to a job he loves

    Fifth-grade teacher retires after 39 years. By: Melissa Hayes    JAMESBURG — "Find a job that you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life."    Teacher Bob Graber tries to instill that advice in his fifth-grade science students daily. The quote, from British pentathalete Jim Fox, is taped to Mr. Graber’s classroom…

  • Council receives complaints about new PRC ordinance

    Ordinance changed concerning age restrictions in planned retirement communities. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — The township’s planned retirement communities are free to set their own rules regarding who is a permanent or temporary resident.    That was the message Mayor Richard Pucci and members of the Township Council had for dozens of residents of the Regency…