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  • PDS boys, Hun girls best in prep foil

    Panthers’ Widlitz, Raiders’ Gonzalez take individual titles By: Bob Nuse    When it comes to high school fencing in Princeton, foil seems to be the weapon of choice.    The boys’ team from Princeton Day School and the girls’ team from The Hun School both came away with foil team championships last Wednesday during the state prep…

  • Online brokers survive dot.com demise

    Especially well-positioned are those willing to compete on the big boys’ level, with research reports and hand-holding. By: Jon Steele    The brokerage world was disturbed a few years back to discover that one of its most marketable commodities, the stock trade, was just that: a commodity. Previously, it had been assumed by industry insiders that…

  • Make a firm start in planning for future

    Time is the most critical element in turning even modest savings into significant wealth. By: Patrick Monaghan    So, you’ve successfully transitioned from college to the working world. You’ve settled into that first job, bought yourself a new car and a kickin’ home theater system. Life is good.    So now what?    Not to be too much…

  • Manage liabilities wisely to build wealth

    The goal of the exercise we call life is to maximize opportunities, not simply to accumulate numbers. By: Jon Steele    As brokerages adapt to today’s financial markets, they’ve begun talking as much about "wealth management" as they do investments. While this helps bolster their case for asset-based accounts and services — sometimes called "wrap" accounts,…

  • Every open school board seat will be contested

    Newcomers to challenge incumbents in all three districts. By: Jeff Milgram, Gwen Runkle and Steve Rauscher Princeton    An architect who is an educator, another architect who is interested in sports and art and an attorney who handles land-use cases are challenging three incumbent members of the Princeton Regional Board of Education.    And the district’s $81…

  • PHS’ late-season run ends in MCT semifinals

    Little Tigers fall to Hightstown in overtime By: Justin Feil    The team that had nothing to lose finally lost, just barely. The Princeton High boys’ ice hockey squad, which had gone 3-0-1 in its final four games of the season after limping to a 5-10-0 start and barely made the Mercer County Tournament, ended its…

  • Frances Kelleher Osgood

       Frances Kelleher Osgood died Wednesday, Feb. 20, in Richmond, Va.    She was born in Bangor, Maine in 1916.    On June 3, 1944, Frances married Carl Osgood of Ellsworth, Maine. They lived in Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and settled in Cranbury for many years before retiring home to Surry, Maine.    After graduating from Bangor High School and…

  • Trafton Tredick

    Trafton Tredick, 87, died Sunday at The Medical Center at Princeton. Born in Haddonfield, he lived in Pennington since 1943. He graduated from Pennington School for Boys in 1933 and was a Navy veteran of World War II, serving as an instructor at Fleet Sound School in Key West, Fla. He retired in 1976 as…

  • These citizens truly deserve our gratitude

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Feb. 26 By: Packet Editorial    How many people can you think of who would actually want to be elected to a position that pays no salary, offers no benefits, requires regular participation in lengthy and tedious committee meetings, invites telephone calls at all hours from extremely opinionated and frequently abusive citizens and demands…