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  • Emily Bierylo Szuba

       Emily Szuba, 85, of Westfield, died Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the Applegarth Care Center in Monroe.    Born in Elizabeth, she was raised in Cranbury before moving to Westfield about 40 years ago. She graduated from Kean University with four degrees. Ms. Szuba was interested in finance and story writing.    Her husband, Walet D Szuba, is…

  • Princeton school district grateful for increase in state aid

    Three-percent hike, though not a huge amount, will help, says superintendent. By: Jeff Milgram    It’s not much, but it’s better than nothing.    The Princeton Regional School District will get $3.67 million in state aid for the next school year, a 3-percent increase.    "It’s not a huge amount of money," Superintendent Claire Sheff Kohn said Wednesday,…

  • Township paves way for major road repair

    Despite budget woes, committee presses ahead with $1.6 million emergency project. By: Jennifer Potash    Despite budget woes, the Princeton Township Committee pressed ahead Monday with a $1.6 million emergency road-repair project, and the committee unanimously approved an ordinance restricting parking on Linden Lane.    Before the evening meeting, the Township Committee held an afternoon session and…

  • Ordinance could make cell towers obsolete

    Town Council wants new ordinance to show wireless companies exactly where towers can be built. By: Matthew Kirdahy    A new cell tower ordinance could keep additional towers and antennas out of Cranbury.    The township wants to amend its current ordinance to keep cell towers and antennas out of Cranbury’s village by providing more specific technical…

  • Trio indicted in Depot theft

    Three men found guilty of conspiracy and theft of about $59,000 in goods from Home Depot distribution center. By: Matthew Kirdahy    A Middlesex County state Superior Court grand jury indicted three men, one of whom is from Cranbury, on charges of conspiracy and theft of about $59,000 in goods from a temporary Home Depot distribution…

  • Taunts will not stop change at shopping center

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Feb. 27 By: Packet Editorial    Some folks may wonder how useful it was for a group of students in a Rutgers University landscape architecture class to spend a semester drawing up plans for improving the Princeton Shopping Center. After all, the shopping center had earlier commissioned its own conceptual plan, prepared by prominent…

  • Trade Center site architect seeks to preserve memories

    Daniel Libeskind, in talk at university, says you can’t be a pessimistic architect. By: Elyse Graham    Modern architecture has neglected its crucial role of preserving memory, Daniel Libeskind, the architect who won the commission to design the World Trade Center master plan, told a Princeton University audience Tuesday.    "Architecture has lost its communicative power to…

  • PHASE THREE: Discovering the beauty of life

    PHASE THREE By Arnold Bornstein: Wonders of Hawaii provoke world thought. By: Arnold Bornstein    Where we live, you’re familiar with the term snowbirds — people who reside here for the warm months and then head to Florida or other Sunbelt states for the winter. We just got back from a place some 6,000 miles from…

  • Nesting bald eagles need privacy from public

    State issues warning, posts signs near nest in Princeton area.    The state’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program is asking the public to respect the privacy of some of the area’s newest and certainly most exclusive residents — bald eagles.    "Since more and more people have become aware that we now have bald eagles in the…