Category: archives
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Site panel gives OK to plan for Marriott
Proposal calls for a 120-room suite hotel on a 3½-acre site directly behind the AmeriSuites hotel on Route 1. By: Gwen Runkle WEST WINDSOR The township Site Plan Review Advisory Board gave thumbs up Monday to a plan to build a Marriott Residence Inn along the Route 1 corridor. The board recommended that the…
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Township seeks compliance with yard-waste rules
Princeton Township Committee tables ordinance that would regulate how residents put logs, leaves and branches out for collection. By: David Campbell The Princeton Township Committee tabled an ordinance Monday night that would regulate how residents put logs, leaves and branches out for collection by the township’s Public Works Department. For now, the committee wants to…
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Culture coming to Cranbury
Latin beats and mambo set for Saturday night By: Casha Caponegro Latin beats and mambo rhythms will emanate from 39 Cranbury Neck Road Saturday night. The Cranbury Arts Council will sponsor its second candlelight picnic concert, Music of the Americas, from 7 to 9 p.m., with gates opening at 6 p.m. This year’s concerts will…
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Beamer memorial set for Saturday
Memorial dedication Sept. 14 at 11 a.m. By: Casha Caponegro Todd Beamer lived in Cranbury for only a few years before he was tragically killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. But the heroic legacy he left behind as one of the United Airlines Flight 93 passengers who fought the terrorists will be forever…
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Plainsboro unveils plan for its Sept. 11 memorial
Three plaques with trees behind them will honor the three Plainsboro residents who died. By: Gwen Runkle PLAINSBORO In recognition of the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of last Sept. 11, the Township Committee unveiled plans at its meeting Wednesday for a memorial to honor the three township residents who died in the…
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Esther M. Toro
TRENTON Esther M. Toro, 67, died Sept. 6 at home. Born in Utuado, Puerto Rico, she was an area resident since 1955. She had worked with Circle F Industries and Switlik Parachute Co. Daughter of the late Martin Valentin and Crecensia Arroyo, stepdaughter of the late Manuel Gonzalez and sister of the late Elvin…
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Rudolph Solomon
EAST WINDSOR Rudolph Solomon, 91, died Sept. 4 at the Plaza Regency at the Windrows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Plainsboro. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in New Rochelle, N.Y., and Scarsdale, N.Y., before moving to East Windsor 26 years ago. Before retiring, Mr. Solomon owned Circle Button Co. in New York City. He…
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Wall falls, killing worker at Lowe’s
By: Gwen Runkle WEST WINDSOR Lawrence Scipione, 62, of Union was killed Wednesday when a 13-foot-high, 30-foot-long section of cinderblock wall fell on top of him while he was working at the Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse being built in the new Square at West Windsor shopping center on Route 1 near Meadow Road, police…
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Week of Sept. 9, 2002
From Hopewell, Princeton and Princeton Junction HOPEWELL Bill Carlton, manager of Weidel Realtors Hopewell office, recently announced that Yolanda M. Roman has joined Weidel’s Hopewell team as a sales associate and marketing councilor. "I joined Weidel because of their dominant presence in the area, their high standards of service and availability of excellent educational and…
