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  • It pays to work hard

    Local businessman succeeds on and off the ice By: Gwen McNamara    PRINCETON — For most of us, relaxing after work doesn’t include lacing up some skates, throwing on some pads and checking guys into the boards. But for former minor-league ice hockey player Scott Kelsey, there’s no better form of relaxation.    Mr. Kelsey, assistant vice…

  • SAVE invites patrons to join ‘The Pet Jet Set’

       SAVE, Princeton’s animal shelter, rolls out the red carpet on Saturday, May 21, for its fifth annual benefit, "The Pet Jet Set," at Princeton Airport on Route 206, Montgomery.    Guests can expect a glamorous 1940s theme inspired by "The Aviator," complete with uplit airplanes, palm trees, 1940s music by The Boogaloo Kings, and a fashion…

  • Letters to the Editor, May 3

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, May 3 Praise for NPDC citizens’ committee To the editor:     As recently reported by The Packet, the State of New Jersey and Montgomery Township have reached an agreement in principle over the sale of the former North Princeton Development Center property.    After I became state treasurer in 2002, I soon…

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  • Hearing set on liquor fees

    Borough business owners bemoan proposed hike. By: David Campbell    The Princeton Borough Council is expected to hold a public hearing tonight on an ordinance that would increase annual licensing fees for liquor stores, bars and restaurants that serve alcoholic beverages in the borough’s central business district.    Last month, the council introduced the measure by a…

  • West Windsor farmers’ market set for May 21 opening

    By: Emily Craighead    The West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market will open for the season May 21.    The market, located at the Vaughn Drive parking lot at the Princeton Junction train station, will be open Saturdays between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. through the end of October.    Ten farms will participate in the market this year,…

  • South American liberty fighter teaches Spanish class a lesson

    Author makes stopover at Princeton High School. By: Rachel Silverman    On Friday morning — in a room packed with Princeton High School students — Argentinean author José Ignacio Garcia Hamilton spoke about the wax and wane of liberty in South America.    As a man who has been imprisoned for his exercise of free speech, Mr.…

  • Harold Shapiro to head stem-cell panel

       Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey has named Harold T. Shapiro, president emeritus of Princeton University, the chairman of a newly established ethics-advisory panel on stem-cell research.    Gov. Codey announced the appointment during a national symposium on the policy and economic implications of state-sponsored stem cell-research held earlier this month on campus. In his address, the…

  • Jazz club plan set for reprise before zoning board

    No resolution expected at tonight’s session. By: Rachel Silverman    Princeton’s Zoning Board of Adjustment is gearing up for another round of jazz-club inferno, in which board members expect to plow through more testimony on the contentious application tonight.    The hearing is a continuation of the April 20 meeting, in which applicant Stephen Distler outlined his…