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  • Scoon, Nicholas win state prep track titles

    Two Peddie School athletes won gold in the state prep championships. By: Neil Hay    Stefan Scoon had a pair of first places, and Melanie Nicholas finished first in her specialty, as the Peddie School boys’ and girls’ track teams competed in the state prep championships at Lawrenceville on February 12th.    Scoon doubled when he won…

  • Press Forum

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  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    PDS’ Hirniak sets records at county meet By: Justin Feil    Stefan Hirniak came into the Mercer County Boys’ Swimming Championships already holding the 200 and 500-meter freestyle records.    The Princeton Day School senior set them last year in his first healthy try at counties, and he had only one question about setting some new standards…

  • Decision marks a new era for Medical Center

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Feb. 21 By: Packet Editorial    For as far back as anyone can remember, The Medical Center at Princeton — or, as it was known in the days before health care went corporate, Princeton Hospital — has had a rocky relationship with its neighbors.    Princeton’s African American community, which has lived cheek by jowl…

  • Potash’s boys almost pull off a big upset

    The Peddie boys’ basketball team lost to the nationally-rated Blair Bucs 68-65. By: Neil Hay    This one would have gone down as a upset worth remembering for years. Instead, it will be recalled as a just-missed, a what-if.    The Peddie boys’ basketball team threw a heck of a scare into nationally-rated and top-seeded Blair Saturday…

  • Institute’s plan targets ‘hallowed’ housing site

    Historical groups oppose 15-home scheme on edge of battlefield in Princeton. By: David Campbell    Land on which George Washington’s troops repelled the British at the Battle of Princeton may prove rough terrain for the Institute for Advanced Study, which would like to build faculty housing there.    The institute was on the agenda at the Princeton…

  • Only one contest looms in area school races

    West Windsor-Plainsboro and Montgomery signup deadline nears. By: Gwen Runkle and Paul Sisolak    With the filing deadline for this year’s school board elections coming up Monday, a list of candidates in both the West Windsor-Plainsboro and Montgomery school districts is shaping up.    On the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education, three seats are up for…

  • With Pathmark closing, employees want vacation pay

    Windsor Green anchor store to shut doors on March 14. By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — It’s always difficult losing a job, but for about 100 employees at the Pathmark grocery store on Route 1, who claim the store is cheating them of thousands of dollars in vacation pay, the experience is even more agonizing.…

  • Edited Reality

    A retrospective exhibit at the Zimmerli proves once again that George Segal is a connoisseur of the human condition. By: Ilene Dube    A ketchup bottle, a sugar container, a salt shaker and a crumpled napkin — these are simple objects of everyday life. Yet as George Segal (1924-2000) gazed upon them in the diners he…