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  • Creatures of the Night

    Dar Hosta’s storybook illustrations of animals just waking up as the sun goes down will be on view at the Arts Council of Princeton. By: Susan Van Dongen

  • Princeton Public Library slates summer reading clubs

       Princeton Public Library will once again host summer reading clubs for children, teens and adults featuring a variety of activities and rewards for reading. Registration begins Saturday at 9 a.m. The clubs run through Sept. 7.    The 2003 summer reading club for children will join all public libraries in New Jersey in adopting Read and…

  • Letters to the Editor, June 20

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, June 20 By: Third-party candidates challenge status quo To the editor:     At the enormous expenditure of time, energy and tax dollars, the downtown parking garage project has been a rotten deal for the taxpayers of Princeton. The disallowing of real public participation during the planning phase has been demonstrated through…

  • Board, union ink contract

    Jameburg teachers to get average pay hikes of 4.8% By: Rebecca Tokarz JAMESBURG — Borough teachers will receive average pay hikes of 4.8 percent over the next three years under a contract approved by the Board of Education on June 12.    The contract also maintains health benefits at the previous contract’s levels and increases starting…

  • GOP resorts to smoke, mirrors in budget plan

    PACKET EDITORIAL, June 20 By: Packet Editorial    On Tuesday in this space, we criticized the plan concocted by Gov. James E. McGreevey and the Democrats in Trenton to restore funding for a variety of programs and services — including health care, special education, the arts, public colleges and universities, aid to local governments and property-tax…

  • Rat’s

    Spend a little time in Monet’s Giverny, feast on French food with international overtones, and immerse yourself in a world of art and beauty at this unique restaurant in Hamilton. By: Antoinette Buckley Rat’s 16 Fairgrounds Road Hamilton (609) 584-7800 www.ratsrestaurant.org Food: Very good Service: Very good Prices: Expensive Cuisine: French with trendy international overtones…

  • Blame parents, society, for low testing results

    Editorial By:    Throughout the coming months, the East Windsor Regional School District will try to determine what it can do to bridge the standardized test achievement gap between whites and Asians, who generally score well, and blacks and Hispanics, whose scores are far lower.    This may prove an impossible task.    This gap is not unique…

  • Defense declines to seek autopsy

    The lawyer for the East Windsor resident accused of killing her toddler son said he won’t request his own autopsy. By: David Pescatore    WEST WINDSOR — John Hartmann, attorney for Maritza Soto, said Thursday that the defense would no longer be seeking to have its own autopsy performed on Ms. Soto’s 21-month-old son Daniel.    Ms.…

  • Rita Schwarzkopf

       Rita V. Schwarzkopf, 89, died Monday, June 16, at Hinsdale Hospital in Hinsdale, Ill.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. she lived in Queens for over 60 years, moving to Rossmoor in 1986.    She was a graduate of St. Catherine’s School of Nursing and had a nursing career including serving the office of Dr. Edward Glynn for…