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  • A safe haven

    Animal shelter is looking for room to grow. By: Jillian Kalonick    As Sara Nicolls makes her rounds through the feline habitats at SAVE, the Princeton animal shelter, she seems to know all the cats’ names and personalities. Identified by color-coded stickers indicating who might not be social, who is still adjusting and who is friendly,…

  • PU goes different way in rout

    Tiger football team rides early momentum to 28-6 win over Cornell By: Justin Feil    Princeton University’s Matt Verbit had made his first career start in last year’s 32-25 overtime win at Cornell.    The junior quarterback made his 11th career start in a 28-6 win over the Big Red on Saturday at Princeton Stadium, and it…

  • Stock answer

    A software firm brings greater transparency to securities transactions. By: Melinda Sherwood    The timing couldn’t have been better for Restricted Stock Systems of Princeton — it developed software bringing greater transparency to stock transactions at almost precisely the same time the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2000 made greater transparency law.    Since the company started three years…

  • Pirates girls first, second for team title

    Miller wins first county crown with Barbarasch behind By: Justin Feil    HAMILTON — There was a little joke on the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South girls’ cross country team about how they’d do at this year’s Mercer County Championships.    "We got fourth our freshman year," said the Pirates’ Lisa Miller. "We were third last year, so…

  • EXECUTIVE SNAPSHOT

    Peter Dawson, Leigh Photo & Imaging. NAME: Peter Dawson TITLE: President HOMETOWN: Pennington CAREER HIGH: Buying the business in 1997 What accomplishments do you believe earned you the distinction of being the Princeton Chamber’s "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2003? I think they looked at multiple things, but one of them is my ability to…

  • At a Crossroads

    Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick begins a new era with ‘Color Me Dark.’ By: Matt Smith David Toney and Lynn Chavis star in the Crossroads Theatre’s production of Color Me Dark in New Brunswick.    In late-1970s America, work was hard to come by for dramatic actors of color. Black musicals such as The Wiz and…

  • Sandahl elected to Township Committee as voters reject open space tax increase

    Pennington Mayor Jim Loper re-elected in close race. By: John Tredrea    Democrat David Sandahl won a seat on the Hopewell Township Committee in a close race Tuesday, defeating Republican Jeremy Hirsch 2,288 to 2,054.    Township voters rejected a ballot question to increase the municipal open space tax from 3 cents per $100 of assessed property…

  • MILESTONES

    Issue of Nov. 4-6. ARCHITECTURE    The Hillier Group has announced that, because of new commissions, 10 professionals have recently been hired by the firm. Local hires include:    Meredith Lynn Bostwick of Princeton as Bob Hillier’s architectural assistant. Previously, she has worked as an architecture intern at Rice Design Studio in Atlanta, Ga. She has a…

  • Banking on biotech

    A shortage of state and federal funding poses a challenge to one of New Jersey’s most promising industries. By: Peter Mladineo    For a new biotechnology firm, getting out of the lab and into the marketplace can be a steep climb, requiring lots of patience, plenty of ingenuity and — perhaps hardest of all — loads…