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Plainsboro gets grant for Scotts Corner Road
By: Gwen McNamara PLAINSBORO The township has received $150,000 in state funding to help make it safer for pedestrians to cross Scotts Corner Road. The township received the grant through the 2003 Transportation Trust Fund with help from state Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein (D-Plainsboro) and Assemblyman Gary Guear (D-Hamilton). The grant will be used to…
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OBITUARIES, July 22, 2003
Debra M. Cook. Debra M. Cook Coached sports PLAINSBORO Debra M. Cook died Friday at home. She was 44. Born in Hoboken, she was a Plainsboro resident for 15 years. She coached basketball, swimming and softball and was a nutritionist and trainer. She tried out for the U.S. Olympic swim team in 1976.…
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It’s About Taste
Restaurateurs are seeking to enlighten customers’ palates with locally grown products the final installment in a three-part series. By: Amy Brummer Mediterra Executive Chef Lawrence Robinson slices rib-eye steak from organic beef. It used to be that fine dining in America meant French haute cuisine. Imported delicacies and rich, complex sauces were the gold…
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July 22, 9:35 p.m.: Top Ten movie chases
Suspense, crashes and lots more. By: Hank Kalet This week’s Top Ten focuses on the big screen or more specifically, the biggest action the big screen offers: the chase sequence. Here goes: 1. "Bullitt" Steve McQueen chases the bad guys through the streets of San Francisco in his truly bad Mustang. What makes…
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Fan-favorite Young earns first win at ‘home’
Princeton University graduate on mound to top Thunder By: Kyle Moylan TRENTON There was an interesting group of fans located in the left-field corner at Waterfront Park before the start of Thursday’s Harrisburg Senators/Trenton Thunder game. There were fans dressed in Princeton University garb. Included in this group was one elderly gentleman that proudly…
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Let’s establish a direct route to the voters
PACKET EDITORIAL, July 22 By: Packet Editorial We’ve never been big fans of California-style initiative and referendum. It seems to us many of the public questions that have found their way onto the California ballot over the years repealing fair-housing laws, banning cable television, slashing property taxes, ending bilingual education, abolishing racial preferences and,…
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Mixed-use building to replace Victorian
Princeton planners approve Nassau Street structure. By: David Campbell The Princeton Regional Planning Board on Thursday approved a three-story mixed-use apartment building for Nassau Street between the Wild Oats natural foods market and Jay’s Cycle Shop. The board voted 7-0, with Princeton Borough Mayor and board member Marvin Reed abstaining. Mayor Reed said he thought…
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Coalition for Peace Action to mark Hiroshima bombing
The Coalition for Peace Action will hold the Annual Commemoration of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the Woodrow Wilson School Plaza on the corner of Prospect Street and Washington Road in Princeton on Wednesday, Aug. 6, the anniversary of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing. Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) and U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12)…
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July 21, 11 p.m.: The Uranium blues
Some good reporting on the latest Bush scandal By: Hank Kalet Back from the southland – Outer Banks of North Carolina – and ready to get back to a regular regimen. Stayed away from the news, for the most part, though I did get to see the Washington Post during the week. Some good reporting…
