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  • Two teachers’ houses hit with damage from Ivan

    Larry Nemeth, a sixth-grade teacher at West Amwell Elementary School, and John Zidzik, a special education teacher at South Hunterdon, had major flooding damage at their homes in Yardley, Pa. By: Linda Seida    Two teachers who work in local schools and live just yards from each other in Bucks County suffered major losses during the…

  • PU’s Williams makes big shoes fit

    Defensive end scores first career touchdown in Tigers’ win By: Justin Feil    James Williams came into this season knowing he’d be a more significant part of the Princeton University football team.    Last year, he was the second string defensive end behind first-team All-Ivy League players Tim Kirby and Joe Weiss. He made one tackle all…

  • Candidates Forum, Sept. 28

    CANDIDATES FORUM, Sept. 28 Louise Wilson Democratic candidate, Montgomery Township Committee     Even though I knew it was coming, the Packet headline "NPDC land deal dies on the table" packed a punch. You might well ask, "How did it come to this?"    This is how: Montgomery Township made the most generous offer we could responsibly…

  • Letters to the Editor, Sept. 28

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Sept. 28 Deer plan betrays twisted logic To the editor:     The blatant hypocrisy of Princeton Township’s deer-management program was made transparent in the article "Penalty sought for killing tagged deer" (The Packet, Sept. 21).    In twisted logic that defies explanation, a person who interferes with a bait site will be…

  • Borough teenager is murdered in Trenton

    By: Jennifer Potash    A Princeton Borough teenager was killed in a Trenton park Friday evening.    Jean Mario Israel, 19, died from a gunshot wound to his left side, said Kent Ashworth, a temporary spokesman for the Trenton Police Department. Mr. Ashworth is the spokesman for Trenton Mayor Douglas Palmer.    Mr. Israel was a student in…

  • Everyone will pay for state’s gross neglect

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Sept. 28 By: Packet Editorial    What would the government do if a landowner suddenly abandoned a huge piece of property in the middle of a growing suburban township, allowing an enormously valuable parcel of land to go unattended, several suspected pockets of pollution to fester and more than 100 once-stately buildings to deteriorate…

  • ‘An Enemy of the People’

    Shakespeare ’70 stages the Arthur Miller adapation of this Henrik Ibsen play. By: Stuart Duncan    You wonder sometimes how many playwrights realize what might happen to their best efforts long after they have left this mortal coil.    Shakespeare, of course, has been pretty well kicked around — his plays juggled from century to century, from…

  • ‘Cottage Club’ bill will go to Senate for vote

    Measure would prevent organizations like university eating clubs from becoming tax-exempt. By: Jennifer Potash    Legislation aimed at blocking owners of some historic properties from seeking tax-exempt status to avoid paying local real estate taxes was released by a state Senate committee on Monday.    The so-called Cottage Club bill, which references the Prospect Avenue private eating…

  • Montgomery citizens’ group aims to get NPDC talks restarted

    Mayor says committee has no further plans to negotiate with state following announcment of its planned lawsuit. By: Jill Matthews    MONTGOMERY — While both the state and the township acknowledged last week that negotiations over the purchase of the North Princeton Developmental Center have ended indefinitely after the township announced that it intended to file…