Category: archives
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Romano leads Montgomery school board
Board also changes its meeting nights. By: Steve Rauscher MONTGOMERY The Board of Education changed its biweekly meeting schedule at its annual reorganization meeting last night, while re-electing Linda Romano board president. The board shifted its meeting nights from the second and fourth Monday of each month to the second and fourth Tuesday of…
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Alumnus says Boychoir School should admit abuse
School says it will not respond to allegations through the media. By: Jeff Milgram An alumnus who is suing a former choirmaster wants the American Boychoir School to acknowledge that he was sexually molested while he attended school there, and apologize. "I just want the truth," John Hardwicke Jr., 44, said Monday. "I’d like them…
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Government gets mixed reviews for credibility
Legislators, lobbyists and academics discuss trust during Princeton University symposium. By: Jennifer Potash Do citizens trust government? Depends on whom you ask. A gaggle of state legislators, lobbyists and academics discussed the question as part of Princeton University’s annual symposium on New Jersey issues Friday, and the collective answer was, sort of. While acknowledging the…
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Beatrice Donovan
Beatrice (Kluchinskas) Donovan died Saturday, April 20, at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge Division. She was born in Kingston, Pa., and lived in Jamesburg for 25 years before moving to Old Bridge, and finally to Monroe 10 years ago. She had been a quality control inspector for Turner TubeSales in Monroe for five years,…
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PU softball’s banner year will continue
Tigers claim first Ivy title since 1996, trip to NCAA Regionals By: Justin Feil The orange Ivy League softball championship banners hung uniformly around Princeton University’s 1895 Field on Sunday with one on every other partition of the outfield fence from left to right-center field. But along right field, the decorators had fallen one banner…
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University student predicts coup in Venezuela
Richard Brand’s senior thesis on Hugo Chávez was handed in a week before coup. By: Lindsay Dell Many Princeton University students make sound analyses and predictions in their senior theses. But few are likely to be as good or as timely as Richard Brand’s assessment of Venezuela. On April 4, Mr. Brand, a…
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Sarnoff development limits get timely approval in WW
Council votes unanimously for revised downzoning ordinance. By: Gwen Runkle WEST WINDSOR In a unanimous vote Monday night, the Township Council adopted an alternative downzoning ordinance limiting Sarnoff Corp. to developing 21 percent of its 345-acre property a move that after months of contentious debate comes just in the nick of time. If…
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A sad situation for the boys, and the school
PACKET EDITORIAL, April 23 By: Packet Editorial One cannot read The New York Times’ extensive report on the allegations of sexual abuse at the American Boychoir School without feeling a great deal of sympathy for the victims not only the boys who experienced the horrendous cases of reported abuse from the 1960s to the…
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Plugged In
Enlightenment in contemporary Indian art is the subject of a new exhibit at the Zimmerli Art Museum. By: Susan Van Dongen "Tree of Suffering, Tree of Life," by Arpana Caur. "Women Conversing," by Prabha. The saffron yellow background of the large oil painting, "Tree of Life, Tree of Suffering, Tree of Enlightenment" is the first…
