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  • The governor turns blind eye to fiscal facts

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Dec. 12 By: Packet Editorial, Dec. 12    With all the subtlety of a one-two punch, Gov. James E. McGreevey delivered a double dose of bad news this week to anyone in New Jersey who might have been expecting property-tax relief and a stable source of funding for transportation anytime soon.    In a span…

  • Ford bids Farewell to his old firm

    Architect plans to return to his roots with small-scale projects. By: Melinda Sherwood    Four decades before Princeton Borough approved a 500-car parking garage for the downtown redevelopment project, architect Jeremiah Ford III was drafting his own solution to the borough’s parking problem.    For his master’s thesis at Princeton University, which he worked on under the…

  • Queenie

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  • Short-handed Cards drop first three

    Ice hockey By: Jim Green    At first glance, the Lawrence High School ice hockey team’s 0-3 record might seem like a disappointing start for a squad with high hopes for the 2003-04 season.    However, considering the Cardinals have yet to put all their top players on the ice at the same time, the fact that…

  • Helen Ward

       Helen Brabston Ward, 86, died Monday, Dec. 8, at the Princeton Care Center.    Born in Monmouth Junction, she lived in Cranbury for 66 years. Ms. Ward was a member of St. Anthony of Padua R.C. Church in Hightstown. She enjoyed dancing, bowling and playing piano. Ms. Ward retired from PNC Bank of Cranbury in 1979.…

  • Richard A. Talle

       Richard A. Talle, 82, died Tuesday, Dec. 2, at home.    Born in Kansas, Mo., he lived in Edison for 43 years, moving to Rossmoor in 1998. He was a 1940 graduate of St. Mary’s University in Minnesota, and had a 38-year career at General Motors in Linden as an accountant, retiring in 1984. While living…

  • LIFESTYLE: Slip sliding away

    Kids take advantage of the season’s first snowfall with some wet and wild sledding. By: Rebecca Tokarz    Kevin Chambres and his daughter Gillian climbed up a hill near Woodlot Park Monday afternoon and plopped down an inflated snow tube.    Gillian positioned herself on the tube and Mr. Chambres did the same, before pushing forward, causing…

  • Fifth-grade teacher Phyllis Katzke succumbs to cancer

    Perry L. Drew School mourns the loss of dedicated fifth-grade teacher. By: David Pescatore    While the school district mourned the Dec. 5 death of Hightstown High School Principal William Roesch, the Perry L. Drew School family lost one of its own.    Fifth-grade teacher Phyllis Katzke, 57, died Monday after a lengthy battle with gynecological cancer.…

  • Appointees’ health benefits won’t end

    Resolution would have eliminated coverage to 12 part-time municipal employees, saving township $108,000. By: Roger Alvarado    A proposed resolution authorizing the termination of health benefits for part-time township employees, which would have saved the township $108,000, failed to gain the Township Committee’s majority approval Tuesday.    The committee voted 2-2 along party lines; Committeeman John Souren…