Category: archives

  • Senior Center director to leave

    Jan Marmor is stepping down after seven years as the director of the Princeton Senior Resource Center. By: Jennifer Potash    After seven years of leading the charge to improve the quality of life for the senior citizens of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, Jan Marmor is stepping down.    "I wish it weren’t so," she said.…

  • Filming Tomorrow

    Jay Milner wrote the screenplay for Dead Easy, a thriller scheduled to begin production in early 2002. By: Jim Boyle Princeton resident and screenwriter Jay Milner also teaches a course at Mercer County Community College.    It’s a simple-looking house. Nestled on Nassau Street in Princeton, it doesn’t stand out from the rest of the homes.…

  • Seniors decry Sierra Club stands against senior housing

    What may be new are charges by seniors and some Sierra Club members that the club has fallen under the sway of ‘extremists.’ By: David Campbell    The Sierra Club’s latest turf battle over sensitive lands on the Princeton Ridge has drawn fire from seniors desiring housing — and not for the first time.    The environmental…

  • Fire on Murray Place is limited to kitchen

    No one was injured by the blaze. By: Jennifer Potash    A fire forced an elderly Murray Place resident out of her rented home Sunday afternoon when the residence sustained heavy smoke damage.    The fire was caused by the build-up of heat and steam from the radiator system, which dried out the wooden floor causing spontaneous…

  • Rosemary Little

       Rosemary Allen Little, 63, of Lawrenceville, died Sunday, Dec. 23, at The Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Newark, she graduated from Douglass College with a bachelors degree in English and earned a masters degree in library science from Rutgers University.    She was Public Administrator of Politics and Law with the Firestone Library at Princeton…

  • Josephine Ofgant

       HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — Josephine Brooke Ofgant, 94, died Friday, Dec. 21, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Philadelphia, she lived in Key Biscayne, Fla., and Collingswood, Lawrenceville before moving to Hopewell Township.    Wife of the late William Ofgant, sister of the late William Brooke, Dora Jacobs and Rebecca Butcher and grandmother…

  • Carlton Force

       HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — Carlton E. "Cub" Force, 91, died Thursday, Dec. 20, at Capital Health System at Mercer hospital, Trenton.    Born in Titusville, he was a lifelong area resident.    He graduated from FBI schools and attended Rutgers University, Rider College and Syracuse University.    Mr. Force retired after 42 years as a park ranger with Washington…

  • Peter Nictakis

       Peter E. Nictakis, 64, died Wednesday, Dec. 19, at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in Trenton, he was a longtime Lawrenceville resident.    He graduated from Ewing High School, Ithaca College and Fairleigh Dickinson University Dental School.    Mr. Nictakis retired as a self-employed dentist after 31 years in Lawrenceville, and was on the…

  • Robert Starkin

       Robert K. Starkin, 87, died Thursday, Dec. 20, at St. Joseph’s Skilled Nursing Center.    Born in New Brunswick, he lived in Cranford 25 years before moving to Allentown in 1973 and Lawrenceville four years ago.    He retired as a quality control inspector with Pennwall Corp., Piscataway.    Mr. Starkin sold mops and brooms for 50 years…