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  • Sewer repair bond ordinance approved

    Much of the $280,000 will be repaid to Princeton Township through special property assessments on residents. By: David Campbell    The Princeton Township Committee approved a bond ordinance Monday night providing for $280,000 for sewer-lateral repairs by the Princeton Sewer Operating Committee.    The mandatory repairs are slated for properties on Clearview, Dorann, Franklin and Grover avenues;…

  • ‘Whiteness studies’ hot campus topic

    Recent publicity adds to interest, criticism. By: Jeff Milgram    For much of the 1990s, the new academic field called "whiteness studies" remained largely unknown.    But recent media coverage of whiteness studies is spurring both interest and criticism.    "Now, despite widespread criticism and what some opponents view as major flaws in its curriculum, at least 30…

  • Technology tours offered downtown

    ‘Beyond the University Gates — A Walking Technology Tour of Downtown Princeton’ will offer an introduction to technology firms in Princeton. By: George Frey    The New Jersey Technology Council will offer a roving technology event on Friday, July 18 called "Beyond the University Gates — A Walking Technology Tour of Downtown Princeton," to introduce members…

  • July 15, 9 a.m.: Tuesday Top Ten — police and thieves

    This week the focus is on the best of the television police shows. By: Hank Kalet    This week’s Top Ten focuses on what I consider to be the best TV cop shows of all time.    Here goes:    1. "Barney Miller." Nothing better. A daily look at what goes in in a detective squad, offered with…

  • C-P 10s baseball highlight locals in tournament play

    WW 10s softball 2-0 in pool play; Montgomery 13s out of Babe Ruth By: Bob Nuse    The Cranbury-Plainsboro 10-year-old baseball all-stars showed during pool play they can hit and pitch with the best of District 12. Now they get a chance to see whether or not they’re the best in District 12.    C-P was the…

  • Architect predicts big future for ‘best little city’ Princeton

    Hillier shares vision of the Princeton area with 150 members of the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce. By: Jennifer Potash    PLAINSBORO — Architect J. Robert Hillier believes Princeton is really the "best little city in the world."    But to sustain the title, and to ensure future success, Princeton Borough and Princeton Township need to think…

  • ‘Animal Crackers’

    Actors’ NET of Bucks County shows that the Marx Brothers are fun for the whole family. By: Stuart Duncan    Actors’ NET in Morrisville, Pa., is a family theater. I don’t mean that it does expurgated plays, sanitized beyond recognition. I mean that entire families show up, from grandparents right down to the 6- and 7-year-olds.…

  • PU graduate students, alumni win fellowships

       Three Princeton graduate students and two alumni of the undergraduate program have been awarded Charlotte Newcombe Fellowships by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.    The grants, awarded to 28 doctoral candidates, support the students in the final year of their dissertation work with a $17,000 stipend.    The winners are Jonathan Garthoff, Michael Lazzara, Eva Martin,…

  • Split vote may spell trouble for high court

    PACKET EDITORIAL, July 15 By: Packet Editorial    The most disturbing feature of last week’s New Jersey Supreme Court ruling upholding random drug testing at Hunterdon Central High School may not be the precedent it set — it may, in fact, not have set any precedent at all. Instead, it may be the 4-3 vote that…