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  • Gifts from the Heart

    Make your thoughtfulness last yearlong By: LORETTA SHERMAN Illustration: Copley News Service IF you are thinking of giving a heartfelt gift this holiday season — one that will continue to give yearlong — consider these ideas to help ease your gift-giving list. Please view the print ads in this holiday magazine. Alchemist & Barrister B…

  • Cool Beans!

    For the holidays…Joe to Go By: CYNTHIA CANNON

  • Ease impact, but recognize traffic reality

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Dec. 11 By: Packet Editorial    It’s been about nine months since then-Gov. Christie Whitman flashed a red light in front of the state Department of Transportation, bringing that agency’s driving determination to press ahead with the controversial Millstone Bypass to a screeching halt.    A lot has changed since the governor ordered a full…

  • Task force on town center isn’t certain it wants one.

    West Windsor panel struggles with planning proposals for the future of the train station area. By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — As the clock begins to wind down for the Town Center Designation Task Force, a subcommittee of the township Planning Board, it has reached a critical juncture.    Even though the task force has yet…

  • PU will honor alumni terror victims

       Princeton University will build a memorial garden honoring the 13 alumni killed in the attacks of Sept. 11.    "Our goal is to identify a beautiful and peaceful and living place where the names of these 13 Princetonians can be memorialized for all time," university President Shirley M. Tilghman said Sunday at a memorial service for…

  • Ring In The Season of Giving

    The Salvation Army delivers relief to the needy both at holiday time and yearlong. By: CHRISTIAN KIRKPATRICK Capt. Charles Balcom of The Salvation Army, Mercer County, at The Quakerbridge Mall in Lawrence Township. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski For 135 years, The Salvation Army has served those in physical and spiritual need Please view the…

  • School district settles case against custodian

    The settlement contains no acknowledgment of wrongdoing by either party. By: Jeff Milgram    The Princeton Regional Board of Education has reached a settlement with a Princeton High School custodial supervisor accused of bilking the district out of $1,100 in overtime pay.    Under the terms of the settlement, Felix Dimanche will be kept on the payroll…

  • Jennie Paccillo

       HAMILTON — Jennie Sorgenti Medici Paccillo, 88, died Saturday, Dec. 8, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Trenton, she was a lifelong Trenton area resident.    She retired in 1973 after 20 years with Circle F Industries, Trenton.    Daughter of the late Francesco and Concetta Riccitiello Sorgenti, wife of the late Joseph…

  • Interfaith service and lecture remembers Sept. 11

       The Vincentian Renewal Center will be hosting an interfaith service and lecture, three months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to address the psychological effects of terrorism, from 7-9:15 p.m. today, in St. Joseph’s Hall located at the Vincentian Renewal Center, 75 Mapleton Road, Princeton.    In an evening lecture titled "Coping with the Psychological Effects…