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  • Suspect in 5 bank robberies adds Nassau Inn to victim list

    Pennsylvania man stayed six days, but paid for only three, police say. By: Jennifer Potash    A federal fugitive wanted on bank robbery and other charges spent time in the Nassau Inn last week and allegedly left without paying a portion of his bill.    Princeton Borough police said Peter Raymond Splendore, 46, with a last known…

  • Bank, CVS plan at troubled intersection draws criticism

    Princeton advisory panel voices concern over parking and traffic. By: David Campbell    A plan to build a Commerce Bank and CVS drugstore bordering Montgomery Township off Route 206 drew some fire Wednesday night from the Site Plan Review Advisory Board of the Princeton Regional Planning Board.    Developer SDI of Mount Laurel is proposing a 3,669-square-foot…

  • Sidewalk projects eyed

    JAMESBURG- Four sidewalk projects will cost $436,630 and will begin in April By: Al Wicklund    JAMESBURG — Four sidewalk projects and reconstruction of the roadway on Marriott Street are scheduled to be done in the spring and summer months, Mayor Tony LaMantia said Thursday.    The mayor said the projects, costing a total of $436,630, will…

  • CASC organized annual health fair

    Saturday’s annual fair is designed to get people without health insurance to have annual screenings and checkups. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — It is estimated that nearly 16 million Americans have diabetes. A third don’t even know they have it.    Statistics such as that highlight the need to ensure Americans without access to preventative checkups…

  • Proposed borough budget contains tax hike

    The borough will once again seek discretionary aid from the state, this time to offset a proposed 7.7-cent tax-rate hike. By: Scott Morgan    HIGHTSTOWN — Borough Council introduced its 2002 municipal budget Monday.    The proposed budget is tentatively set at $4,476,038, an approximately $235,000 increase over last year’s budget. For the time being, the proposed…

  • Rev. Stephen Congdon Jr.

    Church mourning pastor’s death By: Melissa Morgan    The Rev. Stephen Congdon Jr. devoted himself to his church, his family and his faith.    The 66-year-old founding pastor of the Church of Nativity of Our Lord in Monroe died Wednesday, March 20, at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison. Those who knew him said it will…

  • Smoyer Park wins design award

       Barbara Smoyer Park in Princeton Township was selected as the recipient of this year’s Class II "Excellence in Design" Award given by the New Jersey Recreation and Park Association.    The Class II award, for municipalities with a population of 25,000 to 40,000, was announced and presented to representatives from Princeton Township at the NJRPA’s annual…

  • Student builds Legos into course on robotics

    By: Gwen Runkle    PLAINSBORO — What do Legos, a bowl of Jell-O and a grape have in common, besides sounding like the perfect mess for your kid brother to get into?    At the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, they are actually key tools for a course township resident Kiran Patel helped create to…

  • 10 years of kindness for lagging students

       Academic Success Today, Corner House’s mentoring program for sixth- through eighth-grade students, celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this month with a celebration at John Witherspoon Middle School.    Students, families and mentors dined with the founders of the program: Linda Meisel, former executive director of Corner House; William Johnson, Witherspoon school principal; and Hendricks Davis, the…