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  • MILESTONES

    Issue of Sept. 21 MARKETING    Princeton Junction resident Christopher Sullivan has joined Princeton Partners as a senior account executive. He will be working with several of the agency’s business-to-business clients. Mr. Sullivan previously served as an account executive with a San Diego-based firm.    Also new to the agency’s Plainsboro office are account executive Christopher Gsell…

  • BUSINESS WRAP-UP

    Issue of Sept. 21 Medarex expands collaboration    Princeton Township’s Medarex, Inc. has expanded its existing collaboration with California-based diaDexus, Inc. for the research and development of fully human antibody therapeutics against novel cancer targets provided by diaDexus.    Under the terms of the expansion, diaDexus and Medarex expect to develop antibodies against three novel cancer targets…

  • University to give additional $250,000 to borough

    May also raise annual contribution. By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton University will give Princeton Borough an additional $250,000 for capital improvements as talks continue on how the university will make annual donations when the current payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement expires in 2006.    The university and the borough negotiated in 2002 a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement through 2006 that is worth…

  • Future of hospital topic of Sept. 29 forum

    Present facilities need to be replaced. By: David Campbell    The Princeton Healthcare Task Force plans to hold a public forum to discuss Princeton HealthCare System’s strategic plan 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29 at Princeton Township Hall. The meeting will focus on the future of the hospital facilities on Witherspoon Street.    A special daytime session for…

  • Hearing on bill defining tax-exempts postponed

    By: Jennifer Potash    A state Senate Committee hearing on legislation aimed at blocking owners of historic properties from seeking tax-exempt status to avoid paying local taxes was postponed Monday.    The State House was closed with all but essential employees staying home due to Delaware River flooding.    The so-called Cottage Club bill, which refers to the…

  • OBITUARIES, Sept. 21, 2004

    Helen L. Dougherty, Rona Goffen. Helen L. Dougherty Longtime Princeton resident     MONTGOMERY — Helen Dougherty died Friday at Stonebridge at Montgomery. She was 82.    She was a 57-year resident of Princeton before moving to Stonebridge in December 2003.    Born in Drexel Hill, Pa., she graduated from Mater Misericordia Academy and Rosemont College.    An avid…

  • Organic food festival returns to Waldorf

    The Waldorf School of Princeton and the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey (NOFA-NJ) are teaming up once again to present a daylong organic food festival By: Pat Tanner Photo by Mikey Azzara Abby Hoffman of Elijah’s Promise, the New Brunswick soup kitchen and culinary training program, will prepare Three Sisters Stew using produce…

  • Elizabeth B. Bixby

       Elizabeth B. Bixby, a resident of Pennington for 36 years, died at her home on Sept. 21, after a long struggle against damages caused by a severe stroke.    Born in 1924, she graduated from Wellesley College in 1946. After a brief spell in banking, she began a career in the political and academic worlds —…

  • Elderly hit-and-run driver gets 4-year sentence for homicide

    Princeton man pleads guilty in death of HomeFront employee in Lawrence. By: Jennifer Potash    An elderly Princeton Borough man involved in a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a HomeFront employee in Lawrence Township last year was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday.    Herbert Broadway of Leigh Avenue pleaded guilty to vehicular…