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  • Borough Council supports fee-for-service rescue squad plan

    Cash-strapped organization would have patients’ insurance companies billed. By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Borough Council gave its support Tuesday to the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad’s plan to bill patients for service but did not reach a consensus on the squad’s request for three years of guaranteed funding for the day crew operations.    The…

  • ‘Chick lit’

    Novelist is in the vanguard of a new publishing phenomenon. By: Aleen Crispino    Jennifer O’Connell, 36, lives with her husband and their two children, a 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, in a Chicago suburb. She has a B.A. in government from Smith College and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. She is the owner…

  • Injuries mounting for Monroe

    By: Carolyn M. Hartko    The Monroe High School boys basketball team received a wakeup call on Tuesday.    After racking up a surprising 6-1 record, which included six victories in a row by large margins, the Falcons hosted South Plainfield on Tuesday — a South Plainfield team recognized as one of the best in the state…

  • Outcault Park designs nearly done

       MONROE — Plans for a proposed 40-acre park on Avenue K in the Outcault section of the township are nearing completion. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — More than two-and-a-half years after it was approved by the Township Council, plans for a proposed 40-acre park on Avenue K in the Outcault section of the township are…

  • Two breakthroughs in radiation therapy for prostate cancer

    Because prostate cancer patients often do not have symptoms, annual checkups are vitally important By: Lorraine Seabrook    According to the American Cancer Society, aside from skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer among American men and represents the second leading cause of death in men, second only to lung cancer. An estimated 230,110…

  • Win shows PDS improving

    Panther girls’ basketball earns first victory By: Bob Nuse    Sue Repko knows that the Princeton Day School girls’ basketball team is a work in progress.    Her players know that as well.    "We have a very young team this year," said Repko, who is in her second year as the Panthers’ head coach. "And we’ve had…

  • ‘Hotel Rwanda’

    This true story almost goes over the top recounting the horrors of the 1994 genocide of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority. By: Elise Nakhnikian Don Cheadle (right) saves as many people as he can in ‘Hotel Rwanda.’    Hotel Rwanda, which tells the story of how hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina saved hundreds of his countrymen during the 1994…

  • OBITUARIES:Robert Calderone

    Robert Calderone    Robert A. Calderone, 48, of Cranbury, died Sunday, Jan. 9, at home.    Born in Niagra Falls, N.Y., he was a resident of Cranbury for the past 32 years. Robert was a graduate of Hightstown High School and Middlesex School of Nursing. He was an LPN and formerly worked at Mercer County Geriatric Nursing…

  • PHASE THREE: We’re nearing the ‘home’ stretch

    PHASE THREE by Arnold Bornstein: Living through the remodeling process. By: Arnold Bornstein    It came to us in the last few weeks, as it must come eventually to all dwellers who own their own home. It’s called renovating, remodeling, renewing or redoing — although there are many other informal and strongly uncomplimentary words to describe…