Category: archives
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PU program to enhance diversity ‘Dialogue’
An effort to make campus more open and welcome to minorities. Princeton University is initiating a new program to make its campus more open and welcoming to minorities. The program, Dialogue@Princeton, is funded by a three-year, $225,000 grant awarded by the Bildner Family Foundation. Fleurette King, who most recently ran the Office of Diversity Education…
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Buy a brick for Ely
Recreation Commission has special offer for first 50 bricks By: Linda Seida LAMBERTVILLE The Recreation Commission is kicking off its Buy a Brick fund-raiser with a special offer for the first 50 orders. The bricks, which will be used next summer in the construction of a pathway in Ely Memorial Field, can be engraved…
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Millstone River School name unveiling set Wednesday
By: Gwen Runkle PLAINSBORO Students, teachers and administrators at the Millstone River School will be celebrating school spirit with a special ceremony at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The entire school will gather outside to formally dedicate the building, on Grovers Mill Road, with its new name. A new sign will be unveiled and a ribbon-cutting…
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Solebury: Quarry causing health, noise problems
Latest noise studies show high levels. By: Linda Seida SOLEBURY The township supervisors are making a little noise of their own after learning the results of recent noise studies at a local quarry. Studies conducted in early November by Valley Forge Laboratories say the noise coming from New Hope Crushed Stone is hitting 63…
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Let’s talk turkey about Thankgiving’s main course
About 90 percent of American households have turkey every Thanksgiving By: Ah, turkey. Cuisine most fowl. Chances are, on this glorious Thanksgiving Day, you are gobbling down that which once gobbled. About 90 percent of American families eat turkey on Thanksgiving, and 50 have turkey for Christmas dinner. But what do we really know about…
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Lawsuit filed, another threatened over deer cull
Humane Society investigator claims his constitutional rights violated. By: David Campbell An investigator with the Humane Society of the United States has filed a lawsuit against Princeton Township, its mayor and police chief, alleging his constitutional rights were violated through wrongful arrest and prosecution. Meanwhile, a plaintiff in two other pending lawsuits stemming from Princeton…
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Letters to the Editor, Nov. 26
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Nov. 26 By: Counting spaces is a subjective business To the editor: My good friend and colleague on Princeton’s Borough Council, Joe O’Neill, observed here (The Packet, Nov. 19) that the proposed 500-space, $11 million municipal garage, which Joe apparently supports, will yield a 12,000 daily "space-per-hour" parking capacity (500…
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Area tree-lighting ceremonies announced
Santa to visit area municipalities By:Vanessa S. Holt and Eve Collins Following is a list of upcoming tree-lighting ceremonies in area municipalities. Mansfield Township held its tree lighting on Saturday. New Hanover Township and Fieldsboro Borough will not hold a ceremony this year. In Bordentown City, the annual tree lighting will take place at 5…
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FHS football advances to SJ Group I title game
Flashes celebrate 6-0 overtime win By:Sean Moylan GLOUCESTER "I cut the corner and I saw one guy there . . . And I said, ‘I can’t be denied,’" Jorron Jenkins exclaimed with great joy. Only moments before, Jenkins’ 9-yard journey into the end zone propelled the Florence High School football team to a 6-0…
