Category: archives
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MHS short on depth but long on results at GMC Relays
By: Carolyn M. Hartko Although not at full strength, the Monroe Township High School track teams managed to make their presence known at this past weekend’s Greater Middlesex Conference Coaches’ Relay Meet held at South Plainfield. A good number of Monroe’s track athletes were marching to a different drummer on a band trip over the…
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Arts Council application is not ready for hearing
Planning Board officials still reviewing controversial expansion. By: Jennifer Potash The Arts Council of Princeton’s presentation of its expansion plans to the Princeton Regional Planning Board will not take place in April. Officials from the Planning Board said the application is still under review. This is The Arts Council’s second expansion attempt. The Princeton Regional…
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Contractors aid Princeton rescue squad
Over $10,000 in goods and services donated. By: Jennifer Potash usually the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad that provides the helping hand. But a number of area contractors have decided it’s the squad that needs some help and they have come to the rescue. Squad members have expressed their thanks to the contractors,…
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Committee supports expanding number of playing-fields
Proposed gym won’t go on Gulick Farm. By: David Campbell The Princeton Township Committee responded favorably to the joint Princeton Recreation Department’s presentation Monday night on Princeton’s inventory of current and possible future active-recreation sites in light of current and projected needs. Despite acquisitions like Coventry Farm and Greenway Meadows, which will host several athletic…
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OBITUARIES, April 11, 2003
Barbara A. Gocke, Dr. Donald Goodenough. Barbara A. Gocke Longtime area resident MONTGOMERY Barbara Anne Gocke died Sunday at The Medical Center at Princeton. She was 70. Born in Philadelphia, she moved to Princeton in 1978 and to Montgomery in 1985. She received a registered nurse degree from the St. Mary’s School of…
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Princeton University Class of ’07 is one-third minority
Only 9.9 percent of applicants were accepted. By: Jeff Milgram Minorities make up more than a third of the students accepted to Princeton University this fall. Princeton has offered admission to 9.9 percent of applicants for the class of 2007, or 1,570 of the record 15,725 students who applied. Of those accepted, 534 will be…
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HomeFront calls for permanent end to homelessness
Mercer County task force to be formed. By: Jennifer Potash Over the years, many advocacy organizations and educational institutions have sponsored meetings and symposiums with the aim of ending homelessness. The invariable result is a position paper gathering dust on a shelf somewhere. Connie Mercer, director of HomeFront in Lawrence Township, plans a new task…
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Defending softball champs from Northern Burlington come out swinging in 2003
By: Sean Moylan The Northern Burlington County Regional High School girls’ varsity softball team continued its torrid hitting this past week with a 7-4 win over Burlington Township on Thursday and a 10-3 victory against Haddonfield on Saturday. Both contests were played at Northern Burlington. NBC’s Kelly LaRue followed up her four-for-four day in the…
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PU student sued by recording industry group over piracy
Sophomore Daniel Peng allegedly distributed copyrighted songs over over an internal campus network. By: Amy Sennett In a move to combat a growing trend of file sharing on college campuses, the Recording Industry Association of American filed four potentially million-dollar lawsuits on April 3 against a Princeton University student, Daniel Peng, and three other operators…
