Category: archives
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FORUM: Traffic Concerns
What kind of permanent solution should be crafted to address traffic concerns at Cranbury School? What kind of permanent solution should be crafted to address traffic concerns at Cranbury School?
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Township Council OKs stable tax rate
The council’s budget for 2002 keeps the municipal tax rate per $100 of assessed value at 37 cents. By: Chris Karmiol EAST WINDSOR Only one member of the community was present at the Township Council meeting as the 2002 municipal budget was adopted Tuesday. There was no public comment, but the council unanimously adopted…
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Teen wins national Red Cross award
West Windsor resident Mahati Acharya to address national convention. By: Gwen Runkle When Mahati Acharya, a West Windsor resident and junior at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, travels to Arizona later this month, there is one thing she plans on leaving at home her stage fright. As the winner of the American Red Cross…
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Two points on borough economics
Letter to the editor To the editor: The common wisdom is that Hightstown is a built-out community with no place to develop new commercial properties. Thus, there is no viable way to lessen the tax burden shouldered by its property owners. Council President Mike Vanderbeck points to increasing Hightstown’s participation in shared services while Mayor…
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Review panel clears way for Quarry Street condominiums
The Princeton Nursing Home would be converted into The Waxwood residences. By: David Campbell A Princeton advisory board Wednesday night responded favorably to a plan to convert the Princeton Nursing Home building on Quarry Street to residential condominiums. The Site Plan Review Advisory Board unanimously recommended approval by the Princeton Borough Zoning Board of Adjustment…
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Offer solutions, not criticism
Letter to the editor To the editor: I, for one, am sick to death of people who complain and do not offer a solution. I refer specifically to the article in the Friday, May 3, edition concerning the mural at Hightstown High School ("Questions raised over mural’s ethnic inclusiveness," Page 3A). Why does Dr. Abalos…
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Former ad exec finds a home as Windrows editor
"I like having health-care options available to me nearby, but appreciate the independence of deciding when I need them," says Wall Street Journal retiree Kit Melick-Niemiec. As a former Wall Street Journal advertising executive, "Kit" Melick-Niemiec certainly brings an unusually-high level of expertise to her role as editor of Window on Windrows, the resident newsletter…
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Family urges stem-cell support
The Coates family met with Sens. Robert Torricelli and Jon Corzine last month to urge for support of stem-cell research in the fight to cure juvenile diabetes. By: Chris Karmiol A Hightstown family recently took a trip to Washington to meet with Sens. Robert Torricelli and Jon Corzine. The trip was not to Washington, D.C.,…
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Dates to remember
May 18 The Ponds’ Resident Big Dance Band: At 7:30 p.m. at the Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts at Monroe Township High School, the Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission will present The Ponds’ Resident Big Dance Band, which plays music of the 1940s and 1950s in the style of Count Basie,…
