Category: archives

  • Striking it rich

    Powerball winners say they’ll still live a simple life. By: Jill Matthews    MONTGOMERY — A day that unfolded by accident and led to one of the biggest strokes of luck ever has left one Montgomery couple with 83 reasons to smile.    Montgomery residents Steven and Kristine White were the only ticketholders to win the May…

  • Free health screenings offered

    By: Joseph Harvie    MONROE — Free health screenings on things such as cholesterol, balance, hearing and posture will offered May 25 during the 12th annual Healthy Living Fair.    The Monroe Township Office on Aging and the University Medical Center at Princeton are co-sponsoring the program, scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at…

  • Search firm hired to find next Princeton superintendent

    Illinois company to be paid $23,000. By: Jeff Milgram    The Princeton Regional Board of Education has hired a firm to conduct a nationwide search to find a successor to Superintendent Claire Sheff Kohn.    The board will pay Hazard, Young Attea & Associates Ltd. of Glenview, Ill., $23,000 in fees and expenses, board President Anne Burns…

  • Arts Council cuts back expansion plan as review begins

    Hearing to be continued June 17. By: Jennifer Potash    The Arts Council of Princeton, in a surprise move, cut the size of its proposed building expansion as it began to make its case before the Princeton Regional Planning Board on Thursday night.    As testimony proceeded, the board decided it would not take a vote at…

  • AROUND CRANBURY: Congrats to new doctor, teen actress

    By: Lorraine Sedor    Mary Kay and Robert Miller are proud to announce that their daughter, Stacey, will receive her doctor of medicine degree on May 24 during commencement ceremonies at the University of Medicine and Dentistry.    Dr. Miller is a graduate of Cranbury School and Princeton High School. She received a degree in life sciences…

  • Hughes nominates five to MCCC board of trustees

       Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes nominated Tuesday five new members for the Mercer County Community College board of trustees.    The nominees are Dianne Brake of West Windsor; Robert DiFalco of Pennington; Pamela Hersh of Princeton Borough; Gwendolyn L. Harris of Trenton; and David B. Applebaum of Ewing.    Ms. Brake is the president of the Regional…

  • LETTER: President enslaved to chaos of Iraq War

    To the editor:     Tacked to my kitchen bulletin board is a copy of a letter to an editor printed on Sept. 10, 2002 — more than six months before U.S. leaders mired our country in the seemingly endless horrors of unnecessary war.    The letter from the Rev. Patrick Connor of Bordentown City quoted wise…

  • Plainsboro Village Center construction to begin

    Planning Board reviews building designs; work expected to begin in June. By: Shanay Cadette    PLAINSBORO — Expect to see something other than piles of dirt at the Village Center this summer.    In the "very near future, you’ll see something coming out of the ground," Thomas Troy, senior vice president of Sharbell Development Corp., told Planning…

  • Greenway Meadows Park to open Saturday with events

       A grand-opening ceremony for Greenway Meadows Park off Rosedale Road is planned for 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.    The event comes about three years after Princeton Township and regional land trust Delaware & Raritan Greenway closed the $7.4 million deal to preserve about 55 acres of the former Robert Wood Johnson property for active and…