Category: archives

  • Call to end early admission yields tepid response in area

    Yale president’s proposal draws no great rush to join in. By: Jeff Milgram    On Dec. 12, Yale University President Richard Levin told The New York Times that he would like to abandon the process of early-decision admissions and he hoped other elite colleges would do the same.    While many high school guidance counselors say the…

  • Benjamin Bucca

       Benjamin S. Bucca, 80, died Friday, Jan. 4, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in Newark, he lived there, Livingston and Highland Park for 16 years and Piscataway for 16 years before moving to Rossmoor in 1988.    He was a 1938 graduate of Barringer High School in Newark and received bachelor’s…

  • Letters to the Editor, Jan. 8

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Jan. 8 By: Senior-housing vote seemed predetermined To the editor:    I am currently a resident of Hamilton Township but have lived in the Princeton area in the past. So I still stay in touch with Princeton’s happenings. As someone concerned about Princeton’s future, I attended the recent Township hearing on the…

  • Ruling due from judge today on deer-managment plan

    Opposition lawyers claim governor’s mansion in danger from stray bullets. By: David Campbell    A Superior Court judge is expected to decide today whether to lift a temporary restraining order against Princeton Township’s deer-management plan and dismiss a lawsuit brought against the program in December.    On Friday, lawyers who filed the suit called on state law-enforcement…

  • Cranbury expects $2,000 increase in student tuition at PHS

    The tentative 18-percent increase would raise tuition to about $13,000. By: Jeff Milgram    Cranbury Board of Education officials expect to pay about $2,000 a year more next year to send students to Princeton High School.    "It’s a calculation, a tentative number," Cranbury School Business Administrator Walter Pudelko said Monday.    The calculation was made as part…

  • Local man dies in plane crash in Puerto Rico

    Alexander Wojciechowicz Jr. was ferrying his daughter and other relatives to San Juan Airport on Saturday. By: Steve Rauscher    A prominent local inventor, businessman and philanthropist was killed along with his daughter and three other family members Saturday when the plane he was flying crashed in Puerto Rico.    Alexander F. Wojciechowicz Jr. was ferrying his…

  • Legal or not, deer plan is losing support

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 8 By: Packet Editorial    The fate of Princeton Township’s controversial deer-management plan — and of the 500 or so deer the township hopes to cull from the herd by the end of March — could be decided as early as this afternoon in the Chancery Division of state Superior Court.    Judge Neil…

  • Edward Barone

       Edward A. Barone, 78, died Monday, Jan. 7, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.    Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he lived in Brooklyn, and later resided in Staten Island, N.Y. for 15 years before moving to Rossmoor in 1983.    He was an executive in the cruise line travel industry for over 45 years…

  • Jane McNally

       Jane C. McNally, 78, died Friday, Jan. 4, at Park Place Nursing Home in Monmouth Junction.    Born in Bayonne, she lived there for 77 years before moving to Monmouth Junction last year.    She retired in 1985 as an office manager for Best Foods, where she worked for 28 years.    Surviving are her husband, Joseph G.…