Category: archives
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Borough focuses on garage design details
Opponents expected to seek discussion of alternatives at tonight’s meeting. By: Jennifer Potash Deciding crucial design details for the proposed downtown parking garage will consume the Princeton Borough Council’s attention tonight. Opponents to the development, which also includes apartments, retail space, plazas and walkways, are expected to ask the council to discuss alternatives to the…
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Merrill Lynch executive cited for leadership in marketing
Paula Polito of Merrill Lynch won the ‘2002 Communicator of the Year’ award from the magazine Advertising Age. By: George Frey Paula Polito has had to address the question of "What do we sell and how do we articulate it?" in a shift of products and vision evolving within the country’s largest brokerage firm …
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English-as-a-second-language classes imperiled by costs
Program needs to raise $110,000 to continue classes in 2003. By: Jennifer Potash The low-cost English-as-a-second-language program at the YWCA of Princeton may be in peril again. The program needs to raise $110,000 to cover the classes in 2003, said Louise Sandburg, program manger of the YWCA’s ESL department. The ESL department provides an elementary…
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Banned in SoHo
Cranbury resident James Lucas has completed more than 60 celebrity portraits, a dozen of which are on view at Triumph Brewing Co. By: Matt Smith Above, top, "Lady Day"; bottom, "Jitney Man." Tony Bennett may not have left his heart in San Francisco after all, but one New York City gallery owner must have misplaced…
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OBITUARIES, July 16, 2002
Yung-Chi Chen, Angelina Tedeschi, Marie H. Schach, Delfino T. Palumbo. Yung-Chi Chen Teacher Yung-Chi Chen of Princeton Borough died Sunday at home. She was 79. Born in Tianjin, China, she came to the United States in 1957 and was a Princeton resident since 1959. She taught secondary school in Taiwan for three years and…
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Hungry Eyes
The Michener Museum takes another look at the work of writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans. By: Susan Van Dongen In August 1936, Fortune magazine assigned writer James Agee (1909-1953) to report on rural poverty in the South, which had been devastated by the Depression. Agee invited his friend, photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975), to…
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Candidate offers thanks to voters
Election Forum letter To the editor: To the Hightstown voters of the June 4 primary election: Thank you for honoring my pastleadership while serving on the Borough of Hightstown’s Planning Board and the council. The write-in votes for "Bob Patten" have placed my name on the November general election ballot as an experienced candidate for…
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WW 12s fall short in softball tournament
Bordentown’s pitching proves to be the undoing in District 12 finals By: Justin Feil Mike Shevlin had been dreading the day when he’d have to say good-bye to the West Windsor 12-year-old all-star softball team that he’d managed for the past four years. But how could he step away from a team that acted as…
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Cultural Mirrors in Byzantium
Stockton resident Joy E. Stocke will give a talk at Barnes & Noble in West Windsor on the Ottoman Empire. By: Ilene Dube What many of us regret are the journeys not taken, those turns toward enlarging knowledge, experience or spirit that we considered but did not make," writes J.C. Todd in the introduction to…
