Category: archives
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Utility shed fire burns equipment on family farm
By: Brian Shappell Firefighters converged on Culver Road after a fire sent plumes of smoke Tuesday afternoon. Members of the Monmouth Junction Fire Department responded to an emergency call placed shortly after 1 p.m. by a homeowner who noticed a fire developing in a utility shed behind his Culver Road home, located directly across the…
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School play grapples with gender roles
WW-P South cast is gearing up for East Coast debut. By: Gwen Runkle WEST WINDSOR The high school realms of sports and theater are typically worlds apart, but on Thursday the two will collide head-on as William Mastrosimone’s newest play, "Take Down, Break Down," receives its East Coast premiere at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School…
