Category: archives
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Letters to the Herald
For the Feb. 13 issue. Using cell phone while driving is dangerous To the editor: Karen Mitchell’s "Musings" in last week’s Herald made me wonder: Have we, as a society, become too complacent operating a motor vehicle? Is it too easy? Two thousand pounds of engine, chassis and frame, barreling down the roadway, even…
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OBITUARIES, Feb. 13, 2004
Janet R. Kwiatkoski, Dr. Yulia Seneko, Carl F. Ruppert, Joanne E. Scott, Joan M. Toulson. Janet R. Kwiatkoski Educator, active volunteer MONTGOMERY Janet R. Kwiatkoski died Jan. 22 at University Medical Center at Princeton. She was 70. Born in Pittsburgh she grew up in Williamsport, Pa., and was a resident of California before…
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Small Format, Big View
The Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival offers juried selections from around the world. By: Elise Nakhnikian For some filmmakers most famously Steven Spielberg, who shot Super 8 movies in his backyard as a kid small-gauge movies are the first stop on the road to studio success. Others remain loyal to the…
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PDS warms up for state run
Panther boys’ basketball team faces nemesis next By: Bob Nuse When your team wins its opening-round game in the state tournament by 30 points, there are plenty of things to be happy about. For Princeton Day School boys’ basketball coach Ahmed El-Nokali, Wednesday’s 60-30 win over Wardlaw-Hartridge went as well as he could have hoped.…
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County asked for land help
Cranbury asks the Board of Chosen Freeholders for $1.2 million to purchase Fischer property. By: Matthew Kirdahy The township has asked the county for $1.2 million toward the purchase of the 53-acre Fischer property on South Main Street. The township plans to acquire the property through condemnation unless an agreement is reached with the landowner.…
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Daniel Ellsberg’s message is food for thought
The leaker of the Pentagon Papers says threat of all-out nuclear war still exists. By: Jeff Milgram It is 4:20 p.m. Tuesday and Daniel Ellsberg, the former U.S. Defense Department official who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, is famished, munching on a granola bar and sipping tea. A few minutes later,…
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Letters to the Editor, Feb. 13
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Feb. 13 By: Taxes going up, shed shutting down To the editor: Seeing Robert Clynes’ front page photo at the soon-to-close Princeton recycling shed (The Packet, Feb. 10) makes me wonder: Why? With inflation at 1.9 percent, it’s interesting to note that my Princeton Township taxes increased 8.5 percent this…
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Borough drops charges against eating club president
Lack of evidence cited following accusations student made alcohol available to a minor. By: Jennifer Potash Princeton Borough has dropped charges against a former president of a Prospect Avenue eating club, citing lack of evidence. Cullen Newton, a senior at Princeton University, was charged Dec. 5 with making alcohol available to a minor and maintaining…
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Township Committee toasts liquor store proposal
Ordinance for new license introduced, but sale won’t help budget this year. By: David Campbell The Princeton Township Committee introduced an ordinance Monday night that would permit the issuance of a license for a second liquor store in the municipality. If approved by the committee, the ordinance would permit the township to sell the license…
