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  • Rocky Hill gets road repair grant

    Crescent Avenue and Grove Street targeted for repairs. By: Paul Sisolak    ROCKY HILL — The State Department of Transportation has granted the borough $35,000 for road repair projects.    The funds will go toward road overlays on Crescent Avenue and Grove Street, according to Mayor Brian Nolan.    "Neither road has been done for 16 to 20…

  • Letter: Stave deserves re-election

    To the editor:     I urge Cranbury voters to re-elect Mayor Pari Stave for Cranbury Township Committee this Nov. 4. Regardless of whether you follow this advice, I also urge you to vote for the candidates of your choice on Nov. 4 at Cranbury Town Hall.    The reasons that I believe you should vote for…

  • Borough race comes down to a referendum

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 24 By: Packet Editorial    This year’s race for mayor and two seats on the Princeton Borough Council is shaping up as much more than a contest pitting candidate against candidate. It is, in fact, nothing less than the long-sought referendum on the downtown redevelopment project.    This is precisely what opponents of the…

  • Oct. 24, 6:30 p.m.: Secret policy

    Crafting law behid closed doors. By: Hank Kalet    Here is how policy is made in America in 2003. Apparently, the secretive and seemingly undercover approach to legislation used to craft the USA PATRIOT Act was no aberration. Whatever happened to our great democracy?

  • Editorial: Endorsement

    EDITORIAL: Monroe Township candidate endorsements    Monroe residents have an easy choice when they go to the polls Nov. 4.    They can vote to keep the township moving in the right direction by supporting the Democratic incumbents.    Monroe enjoys the lowest overall tax rate in Middlesex County and, while the housing boom is starting to make…

  • Two professors win top scientific honor

    W. Jason Morgan of Princeton University and Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study will receive National Medal of Science.    Princeton University geophysicist W. Jason Morgan and Institute for Advanced Study physicist Edward Witten are among the eight scientists and engineers who will receive the National Medal of Science — the nation’s highest scientific…

  • New calendar captures images of open space

    Cranbury resident designed new 2004 calendar. By: Matt Kirdahy    Cranbury residents say they treasure the farmland and open vistas of their town.    Photographer Michele Hart of Plainsboro Road has captured those images on a calendar.    Ms. Hart independently designed the 2004 Cranbury calendar and started selling it at Cranbury Day on Sept. 6.    She said…

  • Editorial: Endorsement

    EDITORIAL: Borough of Jamesburg candidate endorsement    Jamesburg has more than its share of problems.    It is a small borough with no room for growth and a rising tax rate made worse by the state’s inability or unwillingness to come to its aid. It is bisected by a freight line and is the intersection of several…

  • For the Oct. 24 issue

    Mary Dolan Sterns, Theodore W. Irving Sr., Herbert B. Davison, Dottie Lou Thayer, Jancie Ranone DeLuca, Betty Jane Baker, Norrine Rue, Roger R. Davis, Thelma Thompson, Helen Blok, Fred E. Yeschenko. Mary Dolan Sterns    HAMILTON — Mary Dolan Sterns, 88, died on Tuesday at Care One in Hamilton.    Born in New Britain, Conn., she lived…