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  • Living a healthier life through tai chi

    Monroe Senior Center hosts eight-week course By:Joseph Harvie    Stepping into 4 Park Place East is like taking a trip through time. The front parlor looks like a scene from a Charles Dickens novel, while the kitchen evokes images of women in long, flowing skirts cooking dinner on the large hearth.    The house, better known as…

  • Appellate court ruling encourages smart growth

    GUEST OPINION By: Susan Burrows Farber    Princeton Borough used the state redevelopment law just as the Legislature intended when it declared a 2-acre site of surface parking lots in its downtown as an area in need of redevelopment, according to an Appellate Division decision released on June 30.    Today, one former borough-owned parking lot boasts…

  • OBITUARIES, July 23, 2004

    David A. Robertson Jr., Janet M. Nystrom, Darrington A. Zieden, Robert M. Kerney. David A. Robertson Jr. Retired Barnard English professor     David A. Robertson Jr. of Princeton died Monday. He was 88.    Born in Chicago, he grew up in Baltimore and was a resident of New York City and Demarest before moving to Princeton…

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY: Recent death brings out the difficulties of addiction

    KIDS AND COMMUNITY by Judy Shepps Battle: Many people would be surprised by the many faces of addiction. By: Judy SHepps Battle    Eric Douglas had it all. The youngest son of Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas and half-brother of equally famous Michael Douglas, he was born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth but spent…

  • Board seeking district assistant

    Assistant Superintendent to be appoint by end of August By:Sharlee Joy DiMenichi    MONROE — The school board is a step closer to finding a new assistant superintendent.    School board President Joseph Homoki said board members hope to appoint an assistant superintendent by the end of August and that they have agreed to a tentative search…

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY: Recent death brings out the difficulties of addiction

    KIDS AND COMMLUNITY by Judy Shepps Battle:Most people would be surprised by the many faces of addiction. By: Judy Shepps Battle    Eric Douglas had it all. The youngest son of Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas and half-brother of equally famous Michael Douglas, he was born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth but spent a…

  • LETTER:Clinton, democrats, convinced of WMDs

    To the editor:    How soon we forget. Prominent Democrats also were convinced that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction" years before George W. Bush became president.    In 1998, President Bill Clinton warned, "The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons…

  • Getting a laugh at the opera

    Monroe Township Public Library hosts "The Beggar’s Opera" By:Jospeh Harvie    MONROE — Some opera critics might say the only proper place for an opera to be performed would be at an extravagant opera house.    If that’s the case, than perhaps the perfect place for a nontraditional, satirical opera would be at a place like the…

  • Princeton library mulls home delivery, won’t commit to pickup service

    Consideration of a branch library will await a year’s experience with the new building. By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Public Library Board of Trustees on Tuesday made no commitment to a book pickup service at the Princeton Shopping Center — but did support a further look into a home-delivery service for library materials.    Following a…