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  • Princeton Borough sewer fee may be on hold

    New data suggests lower water consumption and thus lower costs. By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton Borough may not need to increase sewer rates after all.    Princeton Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi proposed a rate increase to the Princeton Borough Council last week to counteract a decline in revenue expected in 2002.    But new data from Elizabethtown Water…

  • A wet Fete

    Soggy weather can’t dampen fairgoers’ spirits By: Gwen Runkle    Raincoats, galoshes and umbrellas were standard gear for anyone who ventured over to Princeton University’s athletic fields on Washington Road for the 49th annual June Fete on Saturday.    The Fete, sponsored by the Auxiliary of The Medical Center at Princeton to raise money for the hospital,…

  • Post 218 has postive outlook

    Princeton’s Begin ready for next challenge By: Bob Nuse    Robby Begin knows a little something about summer baseball success.    It was just a year ago that Begin was part of the Princeton-Cranbury team that captured the District One 15-year-old Babe Ruth championship. This summer, he and many of his former teammates from that team hope…

  • A Sylvan Comedy

    With more than 50 years of performances to their credit, the Town and Country Players prepare for their latest undertaking in Buckingham, Pa. By: Debi Cowan Above, the Players’ 1995 production of Dangerous Liaisons.    Mr. Bradley is a director who is constantly changing and learning — a quality that shines through in his productions as…

  • Next controversy: giving downtown plaza a name

    Madison Square vs. Heritage Square vs. the Green, etc., etc. By: Jennifer Potash    The next brewing controversy surrounding Princeton Borough’s proposed parking garage development may be what to name the new plaza fronting along Witherspoon Street.    Will it be Madison Square, after the nation’s fourth president and Princeton University alumnus, or Heritage Square, which recounts…

  • Feast for a King

    Hogback hoagies are outstanding in size — and they taste pretty good, too. By: Rich Fisher    The first thing that strikes you about a hoagie from the Hogback Deli is its width.    Most hoagies are talked about in length and people tend to brag about their sub-shop discoveries like personal triumphs. They hold their hands…

  • Panelists push for property-tax reform

    Political leaders urge constitutional convention. By: David Campbell    WEST WINDSOR — Political leaders at a forum held Saturday at Sarnoff Corp. urged better communication to build momentum for a constitutional convention on property-tax reform.    "Property taxes drive bad government decisions at the local level," said Sen. John H. Adler (D-Cherry Hill). "There is not one…

  • PU administrator named Douglass College dean

       Carmen Twillie Ambar, a senior-level administrator at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, has been named dean of Douglass College, the college for women at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.    The appointment is effective Aug. 12.    Ms. Ambar, an attorney, becomes the ninth woman to lead the nation’s largest…

  • University study predicts dire global warming impact

    Even with substantial reductions in greenhouse gases, major impacts are still likely.    It’s not too late to avoid some — but not all — of the worst effects of global warming, according to a new analysis by Princeton and Brown university scientists.    But there will have to be substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by…