Category: archives
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Business Briefs
From the Aug. 27-29, 2002, issue of PBJ. Princeton Future focuses on downtown Dr. Robert Goheen, honorary chairman of Princeton Future, and co-chairmen Robert Geddes and Sheldon Sturgis will speak at the Chamber of Commerce of the Princeton Area Business Council Breakfast on Wednesday, Sept. 18. The topic of their presentation is "Princeton Future …
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Cable connections draw static
Montgomery fears low-tech provider hampers business By: Steve Rauscher MONTGOMERY Negotiations with area cable provider RCN are proceeding more slowly than expected, according to members of the township Cable and Information Technology Advisory Committee. And they are becoming increasingly concerned that the nearly total lack of high-speed, two-way Internet access the company has pledged…
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Princeton Shakespeare Festival exits stage a week early
Final performances of ‘King Lear’ are canceled By: Jennifer Potash Parting was such a sweet sorrow, as the Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival closed its season a week early Sunday. But the theater company will return to the Pettoranello Gardens amphitheater next summer with a new work by the Bard. "Absolutely, we’ll be back," said Anne…
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Opponent calls for a summit on garage plan
Princeton University, downtown merchants urged to engage borough in discussion of alternatives to parking garage By: Jennifer Potash All the players contributing to downtown traffic and parking woes need to work together on a solution, according to a leading opponent of the proposed downtown garage. Jim Firestone, a Vandeventer Avenue resident and advocate for a…
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Violence, vandalism off by 39 percent
Princeton school district is ‘a very safe place,’ superintendent reports By: Jeff Milgram Incidents of violence and vandalism in Princeton Regional Schools decreased 39 percent and the cost of the vandalism dropped 79 percent last year. The district’s annual report on violence and vandalism is scheduled to be submitted to the Princeton Regional Board of…
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Cable connections draw static
Montgomery fears low-tech provider hampers business. By: Steve Rauscher MONTGOMERY Negotiations with area cable provider RCN are proceeding more slowly than expected, according to members of the township Cable and Information Technology Advisory Committee. And they are becoming increasingly concerned that the nearly total lack of high-speed, two-way Internet access the company has pledged…
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Opening a new school is a real education
West Windsor-Plainsboro’s Town Center Elementary School is poised to welcome its first students Sept. 5 Top-notch staff set to open new school By: Gwen Runkle With construction complete, administrators in place and teachers moving in, it appears the Town Center Elementary School at Plainsboro is all set to open its doors Sept. 5. But what…
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To keep precious water flowing, that well may need a manager
Area man is the inventor of Well Manager, a new water pump timing and holding system. By: George Frey The notion of "harvesting" water may seem strange, but not during a summer of drought and not to those with private wells, as the threat of running dry floods their minds. The fresh and precious…
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The art of insight
Psychoanalyst makes a graphic show of her heritage. By: Michael Redmond It’s difficult to say which story is the most interesting the story of the Velikovsky family, the story of two generations of Velikovsky artwork, or the story of Dr. Ruth Velikovsky Sharon. But they are all one story to the Princeton artist, author…
