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  • Improved soph a key for WW-PS swimming

    Marcher-Rorsted happy to help By: Justin Feil    Emil Marcher-Rorsted has shown significant improvement in his second season on the West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys’ swim team.    "He swam last year and did OK," said WW-P South head coach Paul Hamnett. "He’s getting better. He’s one of my best non-club swimmers. He’s taken on a bigger role…

  • New library, deer managment big issues in Princeton Township

    Opening of Greenway Meadows Park was a highlight for year. By: David Campbell    As Princeton Township bids adieu to 2004, elected officials here look back on a year that brought completion to the new downtown public library and results from a deer-management program that used to raise cries of protest from some quarters.    The past…

  • Not your father’s college sweatshirt

    Princeton University grad designs high-end apparel for the Ivy League. As a Princeton University undergraduate on financial aid, J. Eric Barnes earned money for school selling a T- shirt with the university’s venerable crest towering over those of the other Ivy League schools.    That T-shirt, which enjoys continued popularity with Princeton students, was the inspiration…

  • PU hockey faces UMass, ex-coach

    Sproat, Tigers look to snap losing streak By: Justin Feil    There will be a ring of familiarity when Dustin Sproat and the Princeton University men’s ice hockey team plays at Massachusetts 7 p.m. Wednesday.    On the Massachusetts bench will be Len Quesnelle, the former Tigers coach who was let go after a 5-24-2 season last…

  • BUSINESS WRAP-UP

    Issue of Dec. 28 Credo Group moves to Pa.    The Credo Group, a digital insurance agency, has marked its five-year anniversary by moving from West Windsor to Warminster, Pa.    "A lot of the move was simple geography — locating where most of our employees live — but we also moved to what is called a…

  • MILESTONES

    Issue of Dec. 28 HUMAN RESOURCES    Global career management firm Lee Hecht Harrison has appointed Princeton resident Grace Polhemus job market consultant for the central New Jersey region. Ms. Polhemus will have overall responsibility for helping clients in the midst of career transition connect with the best and most appropriate career opportunities. She will be…

  • Hectic lives go on hiatus after holiday

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Dec. 28    This seems as good a time as any to ponder an important seasonal question. Which is most stressful: The buildup to the holidays? The lull between the holidays? Or the letdown after the holidays?    There’s a good argument to be made for the buildup to the holidays. All those cards and…

  • Hope fulfilled

    Cancer-free finding for courageous 14-year-old. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    MONTGOMERY — Hope Bertelsen didn’t have much on her Christmas list this year. She already received just what she wanted.    Hope, 14, who in May 2003 was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a cancer that develops in immature nerve cells, received word last month from doctors that she appears…

  • Just folks

    Princeton Folk Music Society is going strong as 40th year approaches. By: Aleen Crispino    In 1965, Bob Dylan shocked the audience at the Newport Folk Festival by picking up an electric guitar. The folk revival of the early 1960s was at its peak.    1965 was also the year the Princeton Folk Music Society got its…