Category: archives
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Design contest for state 9/11 memorial reinstated
Plainsboro resident, widow of trade center victim, working with governor on competition. By: Gwen McNamara Many municipalities throughout the state have erected memorials to local residents lost during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but today there still is no state memorial. Plainsboro resident and Sept. 11 families’ advocate Nikki Stern would like to…
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Letters to the Editor, Dec. 26
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Dec. 26 By: Board must act in wider public interest To the editor: As a former school board member, I have watched with great interest the rising costs and unconscionable delays in our school construction program. The published reasons have to do with purported public and parental concerns with health…
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Goff wins heavyweight title at Ewing
MHS finishes fourth overall in season-opening, eight-team event By: Ken Weingartner As an offensive and defensive lineman for the Monroe High football team, Mike Goff was accustomed to flattening opponents. Now, as the wrestling season begins, the junior is continuing to put down his foes. Goff pinned a pair of opponents Saturday en route to…
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Reaching for the stars
NASA names major new space telescope after late Princeton University astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer. NASA has named a major new space telescope after a Princeton scientist who first advocated placing observatories above the atmosphere. The Space Infrared Telescope Facility has now been named the Spitzer Space Telescope after the late astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer, who served on…
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An exciting year for design as PU sets new growth plans
Cutting-edge architecture mixes with the storied past. By: Jeff Milgram Two futuristic science buildings, one dedicated and one approved, dominated the news at Princeton University this year. But as the year came to an end, another building that recalls the university’s storied past also came to the fore. With the two new cutting-edge buildings, Princeton…
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School construction projects still on hold
A bid for heating and air conditioning at the Perry L. Drew and Ethel McKnight schools again came in "well over the budgeted amount." By: David Pescatore HIGHTSTOWN Plans to renovate the Perry L. Drew and Ethel McKnight schools hit another snag and will need to be put out to bid for a third…
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Eighteen graduate from Plainsboro police academy
PLAINSBORO Eighteen citizens graduated from the township Police Department’s second annual Citizen Police Academy last month. The 12 free classes were held weekly beginning Sept. 2 and ending with a Nov. 25 graduation. The program offered the students a wide variety of law enforcement-related topics including investigations and forensics, domestic violence, firearms, driving-while-intoxicated enforcement,…
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The Cannes Nobody Knows
Caught in the spotlight of film and fame, the heart of this ancient city still moves to the rhythm of wind and waves. By: Carolyn Foote Edelmann Photos by Carolyn Foote Edelmann Christmas decorations in Cannes. Reading yet another book on Provence, I am arrested by arch descriptions of Cannes as the "capitol of glitterati,"…
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Dorrie Wolczanski
Dorrie Nugent Blackford Wolczanski, 58, of Monroe, died Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge Division. She was born in Elizabeth and resided in Monroe. She worked for F.T.P. Inc. in Old Bridge as a file clerk. She is survived by her husband of 17 years, Richard Wolczanski; three sons, Richard Blackford…
