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  • Waiting for the Light

    Edward Redfield endured all conditions of weather to capture nature in his plein air paintings. By: Daniel Shearer "Boothbay Harbor, 1925" E.W. Redfield    No one knows precisely how many paintings by one of America’s most widely exhibited landscape painters met a fiery demise. Nor can anyone be certain why their creator, Edward Willis Redfield, decided…

  • No track no problem for Stuart

    Tartans capture third straight Patriot Conference title By: Bob Nuse    The Stuart Country Day School track and field program has gotten along quite nicely despite not having its own track. In fact, the Tartans have done so well they even have developed a pretty good sense of humor about the situation.    "Last year our motto…

  • MILESTONES

    Issue of May 4-6. HEALTH & MEDICINE    Princeton HealthCare System has announced the appointment of new trustees to the PHCS Board and new directors to the Board of Princeton HealthCare System Foundation.    New trustees on the Princeton HealthCare System Board include:    Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Mourey’s distinguished…

  • New stormwater-management rules are a ‘sea change’

    Experts term state regulations as far-reaching. By: David Campbell    The state’s new mandated stormwater-management rules represent a "sea change" for water-quality protection in New Jersey communities, consultant Joseph J. Skupien told a gathering Thursday night at Princeton Township Hall.    Speaking at an educational forum on the new rules hosted by the Princeton Environmental Commission, Mr.…

  • BUSINESS WRAP-UP

    Issue of May 4-6. Barrier Therapeutics launches IPO    Barrier Therapeutics Inc., located in Plainsboro, went public Thursday selling 5 million shares of common stock at $15 per share.    Barrier, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the field of dermatology, plans to use the proceeds from its $75 million IPO for research and development expenses, including clinical…

  • EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT

    Kevin Bannon, Mercer County Parks Commission. TITLE: Executive Director EDUCATION: St. Peter’s College, B.S., business management, Virginia Commonwealth University, M.S., sports management FIRST JOB: asst. basketball coach RESIDENCE: Lawrenceville THUMBNAIL SKETCH: Former head basketball coach at The College of New Jersey, Rider University and Rutgers University, Mr. Bannon was hired as parks director in March.…

  • The Bible’s English roots

    University library exhibit tied to one family’s vast collection. By: Jeff Milgram    William H. Scheide peers into the glass case in Princeton University’s Firestone Library at a 13th-century copy of the vulgate Bible bought decades ago by his grandfather, William T. Scheide.    "It was stolen out of a monastery in the mid-19th century," Mr. Scheide,…

  • Family tees

    At Golf Etc. in Hamilton, teamwork means good business. By: Gwen McNamara    Golf may not be a team sport, but one area family is proving a team effort makes all the difference for successful business.    At the new Golf Etc. store in Hamilton, owners Don Vasil, his wife Janice and son Dan have teamed up…

  • Residents fear housing agency has left them out in cold

    Frustrated tenants meet to form action plan; housing authority schedules meeting. By: Jennifer Potash    For over five months, residents at the Redding Circle public housing complex in Princeton Township lived with construction debris from a partially completed trash enclosure left unsecured in the parking lot.    That situation was one among many that led frustrated and…