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  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Yoel Cancio, 33, of Miami was charged with disorderly conduct and lewdness March 3 at 2 a.m. after he urinated in the Mi Casita parking lot, police said.    Mr. Cancio was issued a summons and released. ***    Cynthia S. Dowdall, 44, of Dryden was charged with driving while intoxicated March 5 at 1:52 a.m.…

  • Tastefully written

    Ice cream flavors created in writing assignment By:Emily Craighead    Even Santa Claus can’t grant every child’s wish.    Sometimes it takes a clearly articulated, creative marketing strategy to make that wish come true.    After reading 22 letters from Auten Road Intermediate School (ARIS) students suggesting new ice cream flavors, MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream and Treatery owner Devang…

  • Two charged in fight

    An argument between two men leads to their arrest. By: Leon Tovey    JAMESBURG — An argument Monday night at the Parkside Tavern on Lincoln Avenue led to a fight and the arrest of two men, police said.    Police Chief David Lester said Tuesday that Jabrel Warren, 31, of Jamesburg and Cliff Burry, 31 of Monroe…

  • Montgomery school budget OK’d with $1,000 average tax hike

    Second question to address controversial one-to-one laptop computer plan for new high school. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — The past three months of Board of Education meetings have been brimming with debate and discussion — mostly regarding the financial impact of purchasing 1,750 laptops for students and teachers at the new high school and the…

  • AROUND CRANBURY: Hippity, hoppity, Easter’s on its way

    AROUND CRANBURY By Lorraine Sedor The Easter Bunny to make an appearance on March 26 at Village Park.    Grab your baskets and Easter bonnets.    The Easter Bunny is making a guest appearance at Village Park on Saturday, March 26, at 1 p.m.    The Woman’s Club of Cranbury sponsors the bunny’s annual visit.    Children through third…

  • OBITUARIES, March 11, 2005

    Miriam W. Coletti, Uda M. Carre, Rachel C. Armstrong, William E. Buss, Henry K. Marx, Helen H. Nowasadko, Jean S. Shein, Rosemary Fishman. Miriam W. Coletti Longtime Princeton resident     SAN FRANCISCO — Miriam Whitney Coletti died Feb. 28 following a stroke. She was 103.    Mrs. Coletti was raised in Chicago and New Jersey and…

  • Here’s a whopper for you: Did Frist kill Burger King?

    New campus center opens and Princeton’s only national burger chain calls it quits. Is there a connection? By: Jennifer Potash    Ever since Burger King on Nassau Street closed last year, a question has popped up around town: Was its demise caused by the opening of Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center?    The campus center, located off…

  • Plainsboro facing major municipal budget hike

    Owner of home assessed at township average would pay about $210 more in taxes. By: David Campbell    PLAINSBORO — The Township Committee is expected to introduce an $18.4 million budget for 2005 on March 23 that, in its current draft, represents a $1.5 million increase over last year.    As proposed, the draft budget would include…

  • Convention likely to delay reform

    To the editor By:    I am writing in response to the Hillsborough Township Committee’s decision to push for a Constitutional Convention to reform property taxes ("Township Committee joins tax reform bandwagon," Feb. 24).    Everyone agrees that New Jersey needs real property tax reform now — not years from now. But a Constitutional Convention would take…