Category: archives
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Builder’s housing scheme for NPDC deepens dispute with state
US Homes writes letter to Department of the Treasury seeking sale of land for 200 houses. By: Kara Fitzpatrick MONTGOMERY The already tumultuous relationship between the township and the state Treasury Department took a nosedive when township officials learned this week that a national homebuilder is seeking to build 200 single-family houses on the…
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MHS girls are hit by injuries, defections
By: Carolyn M. Hartko If the old cliché about raining and pouring is correct, it looks like the Monroe High School girls’ varsity basketball team is expecting a monsoon this winter. Two three-year starters from last year’s team graduated, two more girls that would have helped decided not to come out, the White Division re-alignment…
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Taggart’s road to fencing benefits self, Hun
Senior helps Hun open with win over PDS By: Bob Nuse At first, Natalie Taggart was unhappy about failing to make the Hun School tennis team when she tried out as a freshman and again as a sophomore. But in the end, that disappointment proved to be fortuitous, as it led to her finding a…
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Volunteer work brings honor to engineer
Combing the remains of the World Trade Center for vital clues. By: Gwen McNamara When Plainsboro resident David Hoy first heard about what happened at the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, his first instinct was to try to help. A structural engineer by trade, he felt he had the…
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Inzano hoping efforts pay off
PHS girls’ hoops a growing program By: Justin Feil The results may not show up this year, maybe not even next year, but in three and four years, Nikki Inzano’s offseason work will help make the Princeton High girls’ basketball team much better. This summer, Inzano, who will open her second season as head coach…
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Township gets $300K for bikeway
Assemblymen Panter and Morgan helped East Windsor to get a grant that will fund a bike path connecting Twin Rivers to Etra Lake Park. By: Dana Lynn Flatekval EAST WINDSOR Residents soon can enjoy a bikeway path that will connect Twin Rivers to Etra Lake Park, thanks to a $300,000 grant obtained by state…
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Schools agree to pay contractors $200K
Two $100,000 allotments were approved by the East Windsor Regional Board of Education in hopes of accelerating construction projects burdened by delays. By: Michael Ross HIGHTSTOWN The school board agreed this week to pay $200,000 in unexpected change orders to contractors in hopes of accelerating construction projects burdened by delays. Two $100,000 allotments were…
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Princeton board, teachers ink historic pact
Parties settle new contract 6 months before current one expires. By: David Campbell The Princeton Regional Board of Education unanimously approved a new 2005-2008 contract agreement with the district’s teachers’ union at a special meeting Thursday night. The new three-year contract gives teachers an average 4.65-percent pay increase in the first year, 4.70 percent in…
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Parisian party to benefit Princeton University Art Museum
Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum have selected Carol Hanson of Skillman and Nancy Woelk of Princeton as co-chairs of their annual benefit, "Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends: une soirée parisienne," to be held on Saturday, Feb. 5, at the art museum and Prospect House on the Princeton University campus. Assisting them is a large group…
