Category: archives
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Mayor inks agreements to launch garage project
They commit Princeton Borough to a maximum $13.5 million for the public portions of the deal. By: Jennifer Potash It’s too late to back out of Princeton Borough’s downtown garage redevelopment project, Mayor Marvin Reed said as he signed the agreement Monday afternoon. Mayor Reed inked both the redevelopment and financial agreements with developer Nassau…
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Shuttle may signal new era in services
Mercer County transportation official says it could be the model for a Princeton municipal transit system. By: Jeff Milgram Princeton University, in a move to ease traffic congestion and parking problems, launched a new shuttle service Monday between graduate student housing and the main campus. A Mercer County transportation official said the service could be…
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Planning Board will see group’s vision of future
Princeton Future’s plan identifies five zones within the borough for study, and calls for planning that incorporates the group’s seven overall principles while addressing the unique needs and issues of each neighborhood. View Princeton Future’s "Plan for Downtown and its Neighbors" as a PDF (16 pages, 867kb) By: Jennifer Potash Princeton Future, the nonprofit volunteer…
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Princeton may offer streets to county
Council discusses turning over the borough portions of Elm Road, Mercer Street, Washington Road and Harrison Street. By: Jennifer Potash Princeton Borough may cede some of its roadways to Mercer County. The Princeton Borough Council last week discussed the possibility of turning over the borough portions of Elm Road, Mercer Street, Washington Road and Harrison…
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OBITUARIES, Feb. 4, 2003
Vera M. House, Barbara W. Ellis, Joseph Paul Kearns, David E. Morse By: Vera M. House Former ETS employee Vera M. House of Princeton died Friday at The Medical Center at Princeton. She was 80. Born in New York City, she resided in both the Princeton and West Windsor areas for the last 32 years.…
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Chamber group to hear chief investment officer
Battipaglia to be featured speaker at the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce’s luncheon meeting. Joseph Battipaglia, executive vice president and chief investment officer at Ryan Beck and Co., will be the featured speaker at the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce’s monthly luncheon meeting Thursday. His presentation is titled, "Charting Your Course 2003: Navigating Troubled Markets…
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Story Masala
Author Robbie Clipper Sethi explores the difficulties faced by several generations of a Punjabi Sikh family living in the United States. By: Ilene Dube TimeOFF/Frank Wojciechowski "You write stories to try to understand why things happen," says Robbie Clipper Sethi, author of Fifty-Fifty: A Novel in Many Voices. In Robbie Clipper Sethi’s new book, Fifty-Fifty:…
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Birth of a Book
Hand printing, binding, composition — it’s all a labor of love for Hopewell resident David Sellers. By: Susan Van Dongen TimeOFF/Frank Wojciechowski David Sellers, a banker by day, hand prints books the old-fashioned way in his Hopewell basement. The first thing you want to ask David Sellers a Manhattan banker by day but old-fashioned…
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The Secret Life of Books
A new exhibit at Rider University, ‘Altered Books: Spine Bending Thrillers,’ shows the myriad ways a book can become a captivating work of art. By: Jim Boyle In "Scarlet Revision," Princeton resident Sarah Stengle has taken the original book from which the opera Carmen is based and painted a red block on every page. Consider…
