Category: archives
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Ready for the quiet life
By: Scott Morgan UPPER FREEHOLD At 11 a.m., all 300 acres of Walnridge Farm still looked more like a luge course than a horse farm, an almost biblically verdant pasture encased in a glaze of frozen sleet on a planet too far from the sun to thaw. But neither David Meirs nor I was…
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Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week
Shevlin is big goal scorer in big games By: Justin Feil Luke Shevlin’s name doesn’t jump out when you look at the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North ice hockey team statistics. Sure, the junior forward is up there, sixth on the team in goals and assists with 15 and 13, respectively, but he isn’t one of…
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Planned Pat Robertson talk at PU stirs up controversy
An invitation from venerable debating society is accepted. By: Jeff Milgram In 1769, a College of New Jersey student named James Madison founded a campus political union that ultimately became known as the Whig-Cliosophic Society. The College of New Jersey became Princeton University, young Mr. Madison went on to become the fourth president of the…
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Growing enrollment ties district’s hands
Board says students driving budget By: Rebecca Tokarz MONROE School officials say increasing student enrollment is the key factor in a proposed 12.2 percent increase in school spending. Since September, 358 students have been enrolled into the schools with district totals reaching 3,787, according to Superintendent Ralph Ferrie. The district had anticipated 3,812 by…
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Teenage applicants set for World Affairs
Cranbury student will be chosen to discuss global issues on international circuit By: Matt Kirdahy For the first time, a Cranbury student is going to be among the 1,000 young people from throughout the world who gather at the University of Wisconsin to discuss real-life global problems. At the university campus in Whitewater, the sponsored…
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Sharbell eyes 42 apartments for Town Center’s retail area
Units would be built above stores on Main Street. By: Cynthia Koons WASHINGTON To create the retail neighborhood of the developing Town Center, Sharbell Development Corp. proposed the addition of 42 apartments to the downtown at last week’s Washington Township Committee meeting. "It is very much a market-driven solution," said Tom Troy, senior vice…
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Have you heard about that feisty nun?
BOOK NOTES by Joan Ruddiman By: The topic this week is offered in the spirit of Women’s History Month, and with an eye to "the rest of the story." It may also say something about the power of the Internet in our lives. In November, Book Notes first reviewed the work and the extraordinary nature…
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Six area football players up for scholarships
Leaders on, off field to be recognized By: Bob Nuse Six athletes from Packet-area high schools will be among the 37 high school seniors vying for part of $38,000 in scholarship money awarded by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. The athletes will be honored at a…
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Traditions at Federal Point provides maintenance-free living at its best
Mercer County’s newest community for active adults makes special offer to March buyers Prospective homebuyers recently attended the Model Grand Opening Bash at Traditions at Federal Point, Mercer County’s newest community for active adults 55-plus. During the event, prospective homebuyers had the opportunity to view the designed and decorated models and quick delivery homes. And,…
