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  • Tax policy is bigger concern than SCI probe

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 20 By: Packet Editorial, Jan. 20    Maybe it’s just a coincidence.    Maybe there’s no connection at all between the McGreevey administration’s recent attempts to lay the blame for New Jersey’s high property taxes on costly, inefficient local school districts and the State Commission of Investigation’s sudden interest in the salaries and benefits…

  • Cinemania

    The Algonquin Independent Film Festival brings film enthusiasts and industry insiders together in New Hope, Pa. By: Amy Brummer Syad Ashref’s Letter from an Immigrant: Underground is one of the films slated for screening at the Algonquin Indiefest, a four-day film festival in New Hope.    Everyone’s got stories to tell. Real and imagined, serious and…

  • School officials call state probe baseless

    State Commission of Investigation demands information on pay and benefits of superintendents and assistant superintendents. By: Jeff Milgram    The president of the Princeton Regional Board of Education believes the State Commission of Investigation will find nothing improper about the district’s administrative costs and said letters sent to the superintendents of 50 districts across the state,…

  • Martin Luther King Jr. praised at university, Princeton church

    Members of the Princeton community gathered Monday at separate ceremonies four days after what would have been Dr. King’s 75th birthday. By: Jeff Milgram and Jennifer Potash    Members of the Princeton community gathered Monday at separate ceremonies at Princeton University and Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, four days after what…

  • Faith in Dark Times

    Bristol Riverside Theatre stages Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winner ‘The Skin of Our Teeth.’ By: Amy Brummer PHOTO COURTESY BRISTOL RIVERSIDE THEATRE Karen Lynn Gorney stars in Thornton Wilder’s surreal play The Skin of Our Teeth, the latest offering at Bristol Riverside Theatre.    A dinosaur and mammoth are warming themselves by the fire. An ice wall…

  • Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2003

    Ayres and Robotti Rosemary M. Ayres    Rosemary M. Ayres, 85, of Pennington died Sunday at her residence.    Born in Pittston, Pa., she lived in Trenton for many years before moving to Pennington in 1953.    A member of St. James Roman Catholic Church of Pennington for more than 50 years, she was a graduate of Trenton…

  • GOP invests $1.5 billion in ‘social engineering’

    GUEST OPINION, Jan. 20 By: Michael Redmond    There was some really surprising news on Jan. 13 that has left me, well, flummoxed.    The first surprise was that the Bush administration was proposing $1.5 billion for a new social program — a program that would take place in America and would be designed specifically to benefit…

  • Youths revive Dr. King’s dream

    Slain civil rights leader honored at event sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb. By: Shanay Cadette    PLAINSBORO — The most poignant reflection at a ceremony Monday — honoring slain civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — came from the mouths of youth: We should be doers, not just listeners.    Dr. King "was a man…

  • Montgomery eyes staff incentive program

    Employees would be rewarded for money-saving ideas. By: Jill Matthews    MONTGOMERY — The Township Committee has begun to work through the details of a proposed employee incentive program for its municipal staff.    The program, proposed by Committeeman Mark Caliguire in September, is a performance-based awards plan for township employees designed to promote efficiency and prevent…