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  • Open space has Friends in Montgomery, too

    Friends of Montgomery Open Space forms in township. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — Following in the footsteps of neighboring West Windsor and Princeton townships, several Montgomery citizens have banded together to form the Friends of Montgomery Open Space, a non-profit corporation created with the sole aim of acquiring and preserving as much of the township’s…

  • Governor visits Brookside

    MONROE: McGreevey dedicates quilt and speaks about tragedyNEW! PHOTOS: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 By:Nick D’Amore    MONROE — Brookside School staff and students rolled out the red carpet and unfurled their Hearts of America quilt for Gov. James E. McGreevey on…

  • PHS SATs highest in state

    By: Jeff Milgram    For the third year in a row, Princeton High School students achieved the highest SAT scores in the state, according to the 2001 New Jersey School Report Card released last week.    At the same time, the Princeton Regional School District spent $85 less per student than it did in 2000 and paid…

  • Math professor at university named Nemmers Prize winner

    Recognition of work in measuring long-term dynamic systems. By: Jeff Milgram    For his work measuring long-term dynamic systems like the weather and the stock market, Princeton University mathematics Professor Yakov G. Sinai has won one of two prestigious Nemmers Prizes, Northwestern University announced this week.    University of Minnesota economics Professor Edward Prescott was the other…

  • Borough does more than just talk the talk;Putting an end to an ugly rumor

    PACKET EDITORIALS, March 15 By: Packet Editorial Borough does more than just talk the talk    Princeton has long had a reputation for taking action on matters of concern only after talking about them interminably. The Borough Council, the Township Committee, the Regional Board of Education and their multitudinous advisory groups and subcommittees are widely viewed…

  • Marjorie T. Zoeller Toth

       SPOTSWOOD — Marjorie T. Zoeller Toth, 80, died Saturday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick.    Born in Bayonne, she lived in Roselle Park and Helmetta many years before moving to Spotswood in 1988.    Mrs. Toth was a member of St. George’s Episcopal Church, Helmetta, and its committees.    She had been a Girl Scout…

  • West Windsor school redistricting plan survives, 5-4

    Closeness of home to school to be top criterion for assignment. By: Gwen Runkle    After considerable debate and the review of several alternatives, the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional Board of Education narrowly approved the original elementary redistricting plan developed by the board’s Elementary Attendance Area Committee by a 5-4 vote Tuesday night.    Board members Dee Dee…

  • Week of Mar. 15, 2002

    From Pennington, Princeton and Princeton Junction PENNINGTON    Victoria Rutkowski with Gloria Nilson/GMAC Real Estate’s Pennington office has been awarded the Accredited Buyer Representation (ABR®) designation by the Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council Inc. (REBAC) of the National Association of Realtors® (NAR).    "Today’s real estate brokers and agents want to provide a full menu of services…

  • KIDS AND COMMUNITY

    Learning to cope following a traumatic experience By: Judy Shepps Battle    The terrorist acts of Sept. 11 2001, touched our hearts and unified our country in a special way. For a brief period in time we came together and acknowledged the immediate traumatic stress we felt as individuals and as a people.    But in these…