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Impressive selection of beautiful homes at Washington Town Center
A terrific range of inviting home designs and a rich selection of great homesites await at Washington Town Center Washington Town Center’s alluring single-family designs feature up to five bedrooms, gourmet kitch´ens, full basements and a two-car garage. A terrific range of inviting home designs and a rich selection of great homesites await at…
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Molly
"Molly," a spayed 1-year-old English Setter, is in need of a loving home and available for adoption from SAVE, 900 Herrontown Road, Princeton. For information about adopting "Molly" or another dog or cat, call (609) 921-6122. SAVE: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/NJ143.html
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Learning how to build the perfect turkey
Cranbury School art classes teaching students fundamentals. By: Josh Appelbaum Cranbury School students in Tamara Woronczuk’s first-grade art classes constructed turkeys Nov. 2, gluing bright, patterned feathers on brown construction paper circles, liberally applying glue to backing paper and drawing background art with thin markers, and laughing as they positioned the bright orange turkey legs…
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Township may borrow money for equipment
East Windsor’s council introduced a measure that would borrow $1.35 million to buy a new fire truck and snowplow, and fund other improvements. By: Dana Lynn Flatekval EAST WINDSOR A $1.4 million bond ordinance introduced at the Township Council meeting on Nov. 3 could provide the necessary funds to purchase new equipment for various…
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A lesson in continuity
Old schoolhouse, renovated by Blawenburg church, to make its debut at Dutch country fair. By: Dennis O’Neill Eighty-five-year-old Dora Verbeyst remembers the unusual route she took from her family farm on Cherry Valley Road to the old district schoolhouse that stood beside her church the Blawenburg Reformed Church. "I did not go to school…
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Mathematical formulas don’t equal fairness
PACKET EDITORIAL, Nov. 12 By: Packet Editorial At first blush, the legal complaint filed this week by Plainsboro Township challenging the process the state uses to calculate and apportion the costs of financing regional school districts might strike some observers as a bean-counting bureaucratic exercise involving a set of complex mathematical formulas that…
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Council passes resolution on immigration reform
Borough sends sharply worded message to federal authorities in wake of October raid. By: Jennifer Potash The Princeton Borough Council unanimously approved a resolution calling for immigration reform among federal enforcement officers Tuesday. The resolution expresses the borough’s strong disapproval of "any conduct of Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that created needless mistrust and…
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Paul Ruane
Paul Douglas Ruane, 54, of Monroe, died Sunday, Nov. 7, at home. Born in Plainfield, he lived inWatchung before moving to Monroe 25 years ago. Mr. Ruane was employed at Value City Furniture, East Brunswick, as a furniture technician. One of his greatest loves was fishing with his sons, whether standing in a stream or…
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High school roof repairs delayed, bids rejected
East Windsor Board of Education states bids for roof repairs were over budget. By: Michael Ross HIGHTSTOWN The emergency replacement of a roof section at Hightstown High School has been postponed. During a Monday night Board of Education meeting at the high school, Business Administrator and Board Secretary David Shafter recommended the board reject…
