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  • What’s past as prologue

    Historical Society presents seven awards for preservation. By: Pat Summers    Few people can boast of living in a well-traveled house, for which the trip was both lengthening and heightening, if not also broadening. The Hull family’s yellow clapboard, black-shuttered home on Linden Lane, Princeton, is such a place.    Built in the 1830s as one of…

  • Rule change eye to ease preservation

    By: Matt Kirdahy    The Planning Board could amend Cranbury’s open space ordinance to make it easier for the township to create new public parks on future open space land purchases.    Township Planner Harvey Moskowitz will work on changing the current open space ordinance to designate future land acquisitions in town for specific uses, including active…

  • Week of September 28, 2003

    Hamilton, Princeton Junction, Pennington Hamilton    Richard A. Weidel Jr., president of Weidel Realtors, is pleased to announce that Beverly Hubscher, certified real estate broker and manager of the Weidel Hamilton office on Route 33, recently celebrated 20 years as manager of the branch office. "Beverly is a hard-working and dedicated manager. This is evident in…

  • League slates pair of autumn events

    ‘Back to League Night’ set for Sept. 29.    The Princeton Area League of Women Voters will welcome autumn with a couple of public events next week.    The organization will hold a "Back to League Night" Monday, Sept. 29, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Princeton Township Hall, 400 Witherspoon St.    Deborah Macmillan, the newly elected…

  • After one-two punch, beware rule of threes

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Sept. 26 By: Packet Editorial    First it was a hurricane. Then two tornadoes. What’s next? Lions and tigers and bears?    Oh, my!    You’d have to forgive motorists along Olden Avenue in Ewing, and Ardmore Avenue in Trenton, and the Princeton Pike in Lawrence if they suddenly thought they were in Kansas on Tuesday.…

  • Local synagogues herald the new year

    Monroe’s Jewish population gathers for traditional celbrations. By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — Rosh Hashana services, celebrating the Jewish new year, will be held at three centers in Monroe Township today, Saturday and Sunday.    Rabbi Ben Levy of Congregation Etz Chaim, Monroe Township Jewish Center, said Wednesday Rosh Hashana is a time for hope and for…

  • Pirates earn a rivalry win

    Howes goal knocks off North boys’ soccer By: Bob Nuse    There was already plenty of motivation for the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South boys’ soccer team.    The opponent, venue and conditions surrounding the game were enough to have the Pirates ready to play Wednesday night. The fact sister school WW-P North had been placed among the…

  • Acura solidifies its image as a sports-sedan specialist

    When it comes to sport sedans, it’s a war of the worlds with Acura in one corner and all of Europe in the other. Can the young up-and-comer TSX topple the entry-level champions from Mercedes, Audi and BMW? Was it really intended to? By: Malcolm Gunn    Perhaps not, but it’ll go more than a few…

  • Diamond family keeps Cranbury history alive

    Local family remodels historic home. By: Matt Kirdahy    It took more than a year of remodeling, but they did it and preserved history in the process.    Robert and Jennifer Diamond, the owners of a 110-year-old farmstead on Old Trenton Road, invested in a two-story four-bedroom and 2½ bathroom piece of Cranbury’s history.    They said they’re…