Category: archives
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This high tax serves a higher public purpose
PACKET EDITORIAL, Aug. 17. For the past several years, most states, including New Jersey, have tapped a bountiful source of revenue to help balance their annual budgets: smokers. Increasingly shunned by society, and rendered more or less politically powerless after their once-vaunted lobbying group, the tobacco industry, agreed in 1998 to cough up over $200…
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Shirley Ann Niederer
Shirley Ann Niederer, 53, of Princeton died at the University Medical Center at Princeton on Sunday. Born in Trenton, she had spent all of her life in Titusville/Hopewell Township, before moving to Princeton 18 years ago. A graduate of Hopewell Valley Central High School, Class of 1969, she was a beautician and electrologist, a member…
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Rosso doubles up golf titles
Montgomery resident wins Springdale, CVCC championships By: Bob Nuse Two years ago, Willie Rosso found out what it felt like to win a club championship at Springdale Golf Club. Last year, he added the feeling of winning a club championship at Cherry Valley Country Club. Now, the Montgomery resident knows what it’s like to pull…
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Aug. 17, 4:45 p.m.: Nader on Israel, Part II
Anti-Semitism, Nader, Israel and name-calling. By: Hank Kalet Over the weekend, I wrote a short item criticizing Ralph Nader for his use of some unfortunate language in his criticism of Israel. The responses were harsh and misconstrued my position on the entire affair. (Much of it also was vicious and nasty, a screed of name-calling…
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University physics camp hosts 20 young Italian students
Enjoying the work but finding Princeton a little tame. By: Jeff Milgram Buried in a tunnel under a mountain in the Abruzzi region of Italy, northeast of Rome, is the Gran Sasso National Laboratory where Princeton University physicists are conducting experiments on atomic particles known as neutrinos. "The region is poor and they don’t see…
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Panel recommends increasing hunters’ role in controlling deer
Combining road kills with sport hunting may be enough to manage deer herd, report says. By: David Campbell A committee evaluating Princeton Township’s deer-management program says the township may be able to rely on sports hunters and road kills in the future to manage the size of its deer herd without intervention by paid sharpshooters.…
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August 16, 2004
By: infoUSA/Donnelley Marketing of Ames, Iowa The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal…
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Township approves plan for high school parking
A permit system seen as an improvmeent, albeit an imperfect one. By: David Campbell The Princeton Township Committee approved an ordinance Monday night implementing a parking permit system for residents and high school students in the neighborhood of Princeton High School. The Ad Hoc Committee on High School Parking proposed the permit parking system on…
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Following his fate
Son seemed destined to follow in mom’s footsteps as teacher at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South. By: Shanay Cadette Whether you blame it on kismet or osmosis, it seems Bryan Fisher was meant to call West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South home. The 26-year-old was in his mother’s belly when she started teaching at High School…
