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  • EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT

    John Vine By: Andrew Cangiano Residence: Princeton.     Family: Wife Kimberly, two children Jordan 6, Sidney 3.     Education: Undergraduate degree, Princeton University. Graduate degree, Brown University Medical School.     First job: Busboy at a restaurant in Marina Del Ray, Calif.     Thumbnail sketch: Dr. Vine served as director of Mohs/ Dermatologic Surgery at UMDNJ/Robert…

  • Lynch stays busy in new role

    Tennis is PHS coach’s third sport By: Justin Feil    Paul Lynch likes to stay busy so returning to coach a spring sport at Princeton High seemed a natural move to fill up his schedule with a third season.    "It is a lot of work," Lynch said. "It’s very time-consuming. I feel like Greg Hand, out…

  • Princeton Township introduces $29.8M spending plan

    Taxes seen increasing about 10 percent. By: Rachel Silverman    Princeton Township revealed its preliminary budget Monday night, with Township Committee members approving the introduction of a $29.8 million spending plan for 2005.    The vote for introduction was 4-0, with Committeeman Bill Hearon absent.    This year’s total proposed spending is $400,000 less than last year’s $30.2…

  • April 5, 11:08 p.m.: Loopy for Looper

    Braden Looper turns out to be the missing link on opening day. By: Hank Kalet    Pedro was great, Reyes was great. The rest of the team was good. And then there was Braden Looper. Three batters in the bottom of the night, three runs – a single and two homers – no outs and an…

  • Letters to the Editor, April 5

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, April 5 Continue schools’ tradition of excellence To the editor:     On April 19, voters in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township will have the opportunity to vote on the budget for their schools. The Princeton Regional Board of Education is asking for your support of its 2005-2006 budget. Our school community…

  • Commercial, residential markets soar

    Mercer County home sales jump ahead of last yearClick to see graph By: Gwen McNamara and George Spohr    It’s not just commercial real estate that’s booming.    Median home prices in Mercer County jumped an average of 14 percent in 2004 to $227,529, according to Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors’ first HomExpert Market Report.    Trenton posted…

  • Young PU team wins ECACs

    Colgan, Tigers women’s water polo avenges loss to Hartwick By: Justin Feil    Before Sunday, only five of the 18 players on the Princeton University water polo team had experienced an ECAC Championship.    The young Tigers can all share in their fourth ECAC title in six years with a 7-6 upset of top-seeded Hartwick on Sunday…

  • Balance sought in size of new borough homes

    Planning Board committee aims to soften restrictions proposed by Borough Council. By: Rachel Silverman    In an effort to fine-tune an ordinance proposed by the Princeton Borough Council last May, the members of the Princeton Regional Planning Board’s Zoning Amendment Review Committee recently discussed restricting residential home sizes — and they proposed new recommendations on how…

  • Toni Morrison extols virtues of traditional libraries

    Recollection of a 3-cent library fine yields many other memories. By: Marina C. Isgro    Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author and Princeton humanities professor, touted the virtues of traditional libraries in the face of an increasingly digital culture in a speech Sunday at Princeton’s Richardson Auditorium.    "Those are the most salient images of myself as a…