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  • New delays for Princeton library

    Additional contamination, legal challenge set back timetable at least a month. By: Jennifer Potash    Construction of the new downtown library could be delayed at least a month and may not be completed by December 2003, as planned, because of the discovery of additional contamination at the site and a legal challenge to the construction bids.…

  • Rep. Holt blasts proposed cuts in Medicare

    Outpatient treatment would be affected, legislator says. By: Jennifer Potash    TRENTON — Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) and a panel of health-care providers criticized proposed cuts in Medicare reimbursements for outpatient procedures Friday, saying they would reduce the level of care for New Jersey’s elderly patients.    "The Bush administration’s proposed cuts are not improvements to Medicare,"…

  • WW-P North football lets on slip away

    Kehoe: We need to come together By: Ken Weingartner    Kevin Kehoe has learned a great deal about his West Windsor-Plainsboro North football team by watching it during games.    But this week of practice might reveal even more about the Knights and the remainder of the season.    Kehoe will be watching to see how North bounces…

  • Limousine service is the first in state driver safety program

    A-1 Limousine’s drivers have access to Division of Highway Traffic Safety’s mobile lab. By: George Frey    An area limousine service has become the first company in New Jersey to take part in an innovative state driver safety program.    The more than 400 drivers at West Windsor-based A-1 Limousine will be taking part in the Division…

  • McGreevey, Reeve push stem-cell plan

    Governor supports state legislation to encourage all forms of stem-cell research By: Jennifer Potash    With a wealth of private and public research facilities, New Jersey could become a leader in embryonic stem-cell research, which many scientists believe could lead to cures for spinal-cord injuries and Alzheimer’s disease, said Gov. James E. McGreevey and actor Christopher…

  • Pennsylvania woman killed in crash on Route 206

    By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — A Pennsylvania woman was killed Sunday afternoon when the car in which she was a passenger struck a utility pole of Route 206.    Marcella Gigliotti, 53, of Philadelphia was in the front passenger seat of David S. Cook’s 1987 Cadillac when the 44-year-old Plainfield man drove off the road., police…

  • Ralph Nader coming to area to tout ‘people power’

    By: Jennifer Potash    Ralph Nader, former presidential candidate and longtime consumer advocate, is bringing his "People Have Power" tour to Trenton on Saturday.    The rally, sponsored by Mr. Nader’s Democracy Rising, begins at 12:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 100 Barrack St., Trenton.    Mr. Nader, a former presidential candidate, last year founded Democracy Rising as…

  • Sons of the Revolution to rededicate historic site

       The New Jersey Society Sons of the Revolution held a rededication ceremony Monday at the spot where Gen. George Washington and his troops drank from a spring after the Battle of Princeton in 1777.    Princeton Township Mayor Phyllis Marchand and society President Robert P. Vivian were present for the rededication of a marker of the…

  • A Significant Happening

    Voices of Light: The Michener Museum’s new exhibit and publication seeks to add Bucks County Impressionism to the annals of American art history. By: Amy Brummer "Red Sails in the Sunset," by Fern I. Coppedge, oil on canvas, is part of Earth, River and Light — Masterworks of Pennsylvania Impressionism at the Michener Museum in…