Category: archives
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Happy ending
Fire company’s new home nears completion By: Gwen Runkle WEST WINDSOR After a rocky start more than a year ago, construction of the Princeton Junction Volunteer Fire Co.’s new firehouse on Clarksville Road is nearly complete. "The new building is coming along nicely," said Township Engineer George Fries, project coordinator for the firehouse. "It…
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Top-notch staff set to open new school
Town Center Elementary School headed by seasoned veterans By: Gwen Runkle For the newest elementary school in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, it is getting close to crunch time. Set to open Sept. 5, the Town Center Elementary School at Plainsboro is abuzz with last-minute preparations, but parents and students need not fret …
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Four charged in home invasion
Montgomery couple target of robbery By: Steve Rauscher MONTGOMERY Four people, including the victims’ granddaughter, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in an Aug. 20 home invasion in Skillman, the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office announced. James Lillis, 18, of East Windsor, Robert Taveras, 20, of Hightstown and a 17-year-old East Windsor youth were…
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Study: local freight line a ‘choke point’
Recommends spending $46 million to double-track the CSX company line between Manville and Trenton. By: Steve Rauscher A study commissioned by the I-95 Corridor Coalition has found that the Mid-Atlantic region’s freight rail network is deteriorating rapidly and recommended more than $6.2 billion in improvements, including $46 million to double-track the CSX company line between…
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Letters to the Editor, Aug. 27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Aug. 27 By: Township residents deserve library branch To the editor: This letter is in response to the Guest Opinion article by Harry Levine in The Packet’s Aug. 9 issue, "Public Library’s positions should be clear." Many people in the community have raised the possibility that once the new library is…
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First time a charm for PRC
Win senior tennis title in inaugural effort By: Justin Feil Maude Tomai had looked into starting a senior United States Tennis Association team before, but it didn’t happen until this year after the encouragement of Pat Kelleher of Mountain Lakes. Tomai went one better than just organizing the team. The Princeton resident put together a…
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Chamber’s Trade Fair provides networking opportunity
The event is set for Sept. 4 at the Harrison Conference Center at Merrill Lynch’s corporate campus in Plainsboro. By: Jon Steele When Steve Portrude and his team at the CCPA the Chamber of Commerce of the Princeton Area began working on this year’s Trade Fair and US 1 Technology Showcase, they were…
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Schools end tradition of printing class lists
Princeton homeroom assignments won’t be published this year By: Jeff Milgram Every year, in a sure sign that summer really was coming to an end, the Princeton Regional School District released student names and homeroom assignments, which newspapers published as a service to parents. That practice has come to an end, the victim of Sept.…
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Training offered for aspiring entrepreneurs
New and aspiring entrepreneurs thinking about starting or growing their own businesses may get the help they need by registering for the Entrepreneurial Training Institute (ETI). The innovative eight-week program, sponsored by the New Jersey Development Authority for Small Businesses, Minorities’ and Women’s Enterprises (NJDA), begins its fall 2002 session next month at 10 locations…
