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  • Princeton Medical Center seeks to build second campus

    Name change is also imminent. By: David Campbell    The Medical Center at Princeton has determined that a satellite campus somewhere in the Princeton area large enough to accommodate future growth is needed, and plans a name change effective next month.    Hospital President Barry Rabner said Thursday that the hospital’s strategic planning process, which Mr. Rabner…

  • Letter: Press photographer takes great photos

    To the editor:     Since I retired, I do a lot of reading of newspapers and magazines. The best photographer I have ever seen is the Cranbury Press’s John Keating, especially his pictures of children. Yesterday after a busy and tiring week I got a very big smile from Mr. Keating’s picture on page 19A…

  • OBITUARIES, May 16, 2003

    Frank E. Taplin Jr., Margery Cuyler Lewis, Charles W. Raleigh, Caroline S. Johnson, Carlette M. Winslow, Libera R. Tamasi, Roger H. Maren. Frank E. Taplin Jr. Arts patron, Institute trustee     Frank Elijah Taplin Jr., a longtime resident of Princeton, died Sunday. He was 87.    A skilled administrator, fund-raiser and a patron of the arts,…

  • May 16, 3:37 p.m.: Dispatches

    Read Dispatches and a column by Paul Krugman By: Hank Kalet    Read this week’s Dispatches, which questions the Bush administration’s commitment to finding weapons in Iraq. Paul Krugman offers a similar take in today’s New York Times.

  • Peters hoping to end year on high note

    Senior helps PDS beat Rutgers Prep in Prep B tourney By: Bob Nuse    Chris Peters expected a lot out of his senior baseball season at Princeton Day School.    "We have a lot of talent on this team," said Peters, who along with his teammates was scheduled to face Rutgers Prep in the state Prep B…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Stuart’s Pollack-Robbins makes fast exit By: Justin Feil    Even as she prepares to graduate and leave Stuart Country Day, Chloe Pollack-Robbins is already thinking about what she can give back to improve the track and field team.    "When I get rich," the Tartan senior said, "I’m going to give them a track and that’s what…

  • Blair incident sullies image of profession

    PACKET EDITORIAL, May 16 By: Packet Editorial    There isn’t a newspaper in America today that isn’t looking at itself in the proverbial mirror and asking: Could a Jayson Blair happen here?    A Jayson Blair, for anyone who may have just emerged from five days in a cave, is the new shorthand for an elaborate hoax…

  • Traffic loops proposed to end Montgomery congestion

    Series of new roads designed to take pressure off Route 206-518 intersection. By: Paul Sisolak    MONTGOMERY — The Planning Board this week made its first amendment this year to the traffic circulation element of the Master Plan designed to improve the flow of traffic through the Route 206-Route 518 intersection.    The board and members of…

  • Route 1 safety is focus of federal, state study

    Number of accidents on 10-mile section prompts a three-day study. By: Gwen Runkle    Due to the abundance of automobile accidents on Route 1, a team of federal and state transportation officials will take a close look at a 10-mile section of the highway over three days next week.    The Safety Impact Team includes representatives of…