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  • Sparring heats up over Valley Road Building

    A proposal to move cable TV office elicits charge of ‘squatting’ by school official. By: Jeff Milgram    A Princeton Township official proposed giving TV30, the local access station, space in the Valley Road building until July 2003, when the township’s lease with the Princeton Regional Board of Education expires, and then challenging the school district…

  • Attention, all chili maniacs (green or red)

    IN THE KITCHEN by Faith Bahadurian:  If you’ve never had "real" red chili sauce, especially good with beef or chicken fillings in corn tortillas, this one will be a revelation. Also, a recipe for green chili sauce, a staple for Southwestern cooking, that goes especially well over a burrito.    While most folks think of pumpkins…

  • Bocce, anyone?

    Ancient game rolls into Plainsboro. By: Gwen Runkle    PLAINSBORO — With blue skies above and dry ground below, about half a dozen senior citizens gathered Monday morning in Plainsboro Park to celebrate the opening of the township’s newest park amenity — a bocce court.    Bocce, an ancient Italian lawn bowling game, is played with two…

  • ‘Forget Herostratus’

    Bristol Riverside Theatre stages this play by Russian Grigory Gorin. By: Stuart Duncan Edward Keith Baker (left) and Robert Ian Mackenzie star in Forget Herostratus at Bristol Riverside Theatre.    They are making it difficult to get to Bristol these days, at least from the north. The turnoff on Route 413 is under construction — lots…

  • Consolidation right path for universities?

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 15 By: Packet Editorial    In this part of New Jersey, when people talk about "The University," they can only mean one thing: Princeton. But everywhere else in New Jersey, people don’t talk about "The University," because there isn’t just one — there are a whole bunch of them.    In New Brunswick, Newark…

  • Moffa named Herald’s new editor

    The Windsor-Hights Herald will have a new managing editor beginning Monday, Oct. 21.    Beginning Monday, Oct. 21, the Windsor-Hights Herald will have a familiar face as its new editor.    Mark Moffa, formerly a staff writer for the Herald and its sister paper, The Messenger-Press, for more than two years, has been named the Herald’s new…

  • Herman L. Marder

    Herman L. Marder, 71, died Friday at home. Born in New York City, he grew up in Monticello, N.Y., and graduated from high school there in 1948. He lived in Titusville. He attended State University of New York and College of Forestry at Syracuse University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in pulp and paper…

  • Friends toast $1 million-donation milestone

    Group celebrates land preservation in Princeton.    Friends of Princeton Open Space celebrated contributing more than $1 million for land preservation in Princeton with a trail walk and informal cocktail party Oct. 6 at Mountain Lakes Park, its headquarters.    The event inaugurated the John Witherspoon Woods Trail, a joint project with the Garden Club of Princeton.…

  • Drainage project to move ahead

    Princeton Borough seeks easements through condemnation. By: Jennifer Potash    After several years of fruitless negotiation with some Humbert Street residents for easements to install a new drainage system, the borough has decided to acquire the land through condemnation.    The Princeton Borough Council is expected to introduce an ordinance tonight authorizing payments ranging from $1 to…