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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.…

  • 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.…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Scaling the barrier to racial progress

    Henry Louis Gates’ new book, PBS series deliver a report card. By: Jeff Milgram    In September 1969, Bobby Seale and eight other Black Panther leaders were on trial in New Haven, Conn., the comedy film "Putney Swope" was released and 96 black men and women began their undergraduate careers at Yale University.    One of them…

  • Library mulling expansion plan

    Township growth is driving the need for a larger facility. By: Rebecca Tokarz    MONROE — Citing a tremendous growth in the township over the past few years, the public library is looking to expand its facilities.    Construction of an addition to the Monroe Township Public Library could begin sometime in 2005, library officials said Tuesday.…

  • Municipal Alliance gets county grant

    Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse distibutes $6,566 grant to the Cranbury Municipal Alliance. By: Matthew Kirdahy    The township recently received a $6,566 grant from the county to help fund the Municipal Alliance.    Joan Rue, interim Municipal Alliance chairwoman, said the grant came from the Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. The state…