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  • Joanne Hoey

       Joanne Hoey, 48, of Jamesburg died Wednesday, July 3, at St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in New Brunswick, Ms. Hoey lived most of her life in Metuchen before moving to Monmouth Junction in 1980 and then to Jamesburg in 1988.    Her parents, William P. and Ann M. Hoey, and a brother, Richard…

  • CCPA honors Princeton Medical Center

    Hospital wins chamber’s ‘Business-Education Achievement Award’ By: Geroge Frey        Serving the community with almost 20,000 admissions and several hundred thousand outpatient treatments a year, The Medical Center at Princeton recently received a Chamber of Commerce of the Princeton Area award for promoting strong partnerships and educating the community.    "I wish I had some profound…

  • Borough Council to discuss garage size and cost

    Several designs will be presented at tonight’s session. By: Jennifer Potash    How much parking should be provided downtown by a proposed parking garage? That will be the focus of tonight’s Princeton Borough Council meeting.    Robert S. Powell, the senior project executive with the development group Nassau HKT LLC, which is negotiating with the borough to…

  • Ice cream pub eyes key site

    Halo Pub II seeks to open by early next year. By: Jennifer Potash    The long lines at Halo Pub on Hulfish Street may eventually thin a bit. The store’s owner is preparing to open another ice cream shop around the corner.    Called Halo Pub II, the new shop may be the first retail revitalization adjacent…

  • Loretta Bartko

       Loretta N. Bialopiotrowicz Bartko, 82, died Wednesday, July 3, at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong Trenton and Lawrence resident.    She retired in 1981 after 15 years with Bayer Aspirin Co., where she was a packaging lab technician.    She was a member of St. Hedwig Rosary Society…

  • OBITUARIES, July 9, 2002

    Grace Edelman, Katherine Y. Gill, Theodore I. Bleeker, Harvey J. Nusbaum, Dr. C. Thomas Griffiths, Mildred Haines. Grace Edelman PU administrative assistant     MAGNOLIA, Mass. — Grace Shalinsky Edelman died July 2 at Addison-Gilbert Hospital, Gloucester, Mass., after a brief illness. She was 81.    Born in Montreal, Canada, she was a Princeton resident for 47…

  • Carlene McKechnie

       Carlene L. McKechnie, 38, died Tuesday, July 2, at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in San Antonio, she lived in Los Angeles before moving to Lawrence 13 years ago.    Mrs. McKechnie was a school bus driver with Earl D. Stires Bus Co.    She is survived by her husband, Scott I. McKechnie; a…

  • New Masters

    The old-school aesthetic is combined with contemporary subject matter in a show at Marsha Child Gallery in Princeton. By: Susan Van Dongen    The artist Ruslan Vashkevich is from Eastern Europe, and the work of art is titled "The Wall." A generation of viewers might immediately think the huge — nearly 80-by-60 inches — puzzle-like work…

  • Bragging Rights

    Upper Makefield, Pa.-resident Karin Kasdin takes a humorous look at what parents do to get those Ivy League stickers plastered to their cars. By: Chris Karmiol    The College Handbook 2001, published by The College Board, weighs 4¾ pounds.    It costs $25.95 and is 1,623 pages long.    Upper Makefield author Karin Kasdin knows this and countless…