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  • City faces $5 million drainage project

    The state plans to start the work on Main Street in the summer of 2006. By: Linda Seida    LAMBERTVILLE — The New Jersey Department of Transportation held an open house Monday to outline changes that are planned for Main Street next year when the agency begins a $5 million drainage improvement project.    Representatives from the…

  • Sales Opportunity – Advertising Account Executive

    Honesdale and Northeastern, PA territory for fast growing, weekly newspaper, The Weekly Almanac. We seek an energetic, assertive, independent, fun, self-starter with strong communication, organizational, customer service and follow-up skills to develop an expanding newspaper territory. Salary plus lucrative commission plan. Sales and customer service experience required; media sales experience a plus. Excellent presentation and…

  • Obituaries-May 26, 2005

    Doris Brandes    Doris Pratt Brandes, artist and writer, 81, died Tuesday, May 17, of cancer at Pine Run Lakeview in Doylestown, Pa.,    She relocated there after the April flood made her home in New Hope uninhabitable.    In 2002, Ms. Brandes published "The Artists of the River Towns." The book, a collection of feature articles she…

  • Letters to the Editor, May 24

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, May 24 Princeton Future should be heard first To the editor:     The following letter was sent to members of the Princeton Regional Planning Board:     I have closely followed the activities of Princeton Future since its initial meeting in the fall of 2000. For the next two years, I attended…

  • Ahead of the curve

    Princeton’s newest health club caters to time-starved women. By: Rachel Silverman    All too often, gyms become a place where feelings of competition, intimidation and inadequacy run amok.    Take, for example, the new mom who doesn’t want to stare at herself in the mirror as she works off those pregnancy pounds. Or how about the elderly…

  • Mapping a street’s future

    Witherspoon plans emphasize safety, walkability. By: Marjorie Censer    Princeton Future members presented the conclusions of the Witherspoon Street Corridor Study at an open meeting Saturday at Princeton Public Library.    The group divided its presentation into three parts: overall recommendations, recommendations for the streetscape and options for the University Medical Center at Princeton site.    For the…

  • Area bank robberies may be linked

    A Rocky Hill holdup last month is similar to a Saturday incident in South Brunswick. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    ROCKY HILL — Investigators are linking last month’s robbery of the Bank of America on Washington Street to a Saturday heist that occurred at a PNC Bank in South Brunswick.    According to South Brunswick Police Detective James…

  • Princeton Township Committee OKs budget

    Spending reduced; tax rate increased about 10 percent. By: Rachel Silverman    Princeton Township unanimously adopted a $29.8 million budget Monday night — a spending package that, although it is $400,000 less than last year’s, still boosts the tax rate in the township by about 10 percent.    Township Chief Financial Officer Kathy Shaddow, for one, praised…

  • Marie W. Masterson

       Marie W. Masterson, 74, died Monday at home.    Born in West Amwell, she lived in Lambertville for 54 years.    Mrs. Masterson retired from the South Hunterdon Regional School System in 1991, where she had been school board secretary until 1982. She was custodian of school monies for seven years. She also worked from 1951 to…