Category: archives
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Dinky engineer near end of line
After 20 years on the shuttle, time arrives to retire. By: Jeff Milgram Arthur Radford is a traveling man. The son of a train engineer, the father and father-in-law of railway workers, Mr. Radford known to everyone as Art has driven trains for the Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, Conrail and New Jersey Transit…
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$5.6 million OK’d for capital improvements in township
$1.6 million for roads and $810,000 for pathway projects included in ordinance. By: David Campbell The Princeton Township Committee approved an ordinance Monday night providing for nearly $5.6 million in capital improvements for 2003. The township’s total capital budget for 2003 is $6.3 million. Spending authorized Monday night by the committee’s 4-0 vote, with Mayor…
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HELP’s Peace Camp to be held soon
The Community Action Service Center’s summer camp beings next month. By: Sarah Winkelman HIGHTSTOWN Summer is fast approaching and the Hightstown Community Action Service Center Inc., in partnership with the East Windsor Regional School District, soon will be kicking off the ninth annual five-week Peace Camp, a summer academic enrichment program for area children.…
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PHS scholarships honor Florence Burke
Beloved former principal died in November By: Jeff Milgram Princeton High School senior Matt Wells never met Florence Burke, but he’ll be able to go to Quinnipiac College thanks to the longtime assistant PHS principal who died in November. Matt received the Florence Burke Memorial Scholarship, worth about $3,500, Tuesday night from the Princeton Regional…
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Letters to the Herald
For the June 13 issue By: Cat’s death is owner’s sole responsibility To the editor: Regarding the letter implying that police are not responding to speeding on Stockton Street ("Police not responding to speeding on Stockton," June 6), I would like to make the following comments. First of all, I use this street on…
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‘Caring, tender’ teacher retiring
Melva Moore lauded for 34 years of devotion at Riverside School. By: Jeff Milgram Rob Forman came to the Riverside School to say thanks to his third-grade teacher, Melva Moore, for encouraging him to get involved in the creative arts. During the time he was her student in the 1992-1993 school year, Mr. Forman acted…
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When the talk turns to geese, humans lose it
PACKET EDITORIAL, June 13 By: Packet Editorial Behold the Canada goose Branta canadensis soaring through the spring and autumn skies, migrating majestically in that long, honking, irregular "V" formation, settling for a spell near some sylvan waterway to breed a new generation of sprightly little goslings. What’s that you say? Those brazen goslings…
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Editorial: War’s truths again defined by victors
EDITORIAL: Still on the lookout for Iraq’s nukes. So where are the weapons of mass destruction? To critics of the Bush administration, this is the only question that matters in Iraq. For months, the president and his saber-rattling advisers repeatedly told the world that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling chemical, biological and nuclear weapons that he…
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Students up to their necks in marine life
Dutch Neck School students put together realistic exhibit. By: Gwen McNamara Take a walk down the kindergarten and first-grade wing of Dutch Neck Elementary School in West Windsor and you may just feel like swimming instead. That’s because seven teachers and about 200 students have transformed the roughly 1,000-foot-long space into a "Deep Sea Adventure."…
