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  • Noble goals compatible, not conflicting

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Aug. 28 By: Packet Editorial    There’s no point anymore in denying that the goals of preserving open space and providing senior-citizen housing are on a collision course in Princeton.    No matter how you slice it, last week’s decision by the Princeton Township Committee not to put a 1-cent increase in the open-space tax…

  • Princeton Township bond rating upgraded

    Hike to AAA is just in time for sale of $10.7 million in bonds. By: Jeff Milgram    Standard & Poors has upgraded Princeton Township’s bond rating to AAA, the highest rating it gives.    In addition, the township will retain its AAA rating from Moody’s investor service.    Standard & Poors upgraded the township’s rating from AA…

  • Princeton U. grads reunited with Pride

    Hess, Hubbard lead first-year pro lacrosse team’s attack By: Bob Nuse    UPPER MONTCLAIR — Chances are that even if there wasn’t a professional lacrosse league, guys like Jon Hess and Jesse Hubbard would still find a way to continue to play together.    Fortunately for the Princeton University graduates, and many of the other top players…

  • Princeton Temperature Record – August 2001

    The Princeton Temperature Record is based on readings from a Nimbus Ultra digital thermometer with an accuracy of 0.2 degrees F. Readings, taken in Princeton Township near the Princeton Shopping Center, are rounded to the nearest degree. DATE HIGH LOW August 31, 2001 92 73 August 30, 2001 85 63 August 29, 2001 87 64…

  • Tag-team partner

    Gov. Jesse Ventura goes to the mat for Schluter at area fund-raiser. By: Jennifer Potash    EAST BRUNSWICK— With his campaign apparently on the ropes, State Sen. Bill Schluter’s independent bid for governor got some assistance Monday from Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura.    It was the former pro wrestler’s first time campaigning outside Minnesota for an out-of-state…

  • Fire uproots apartment residents

    Four units destroyed and 13 families displaced in West Windsor By: Gwen Runkle    WEST WINDSOR — Thirteen families were displaced Monday after an early-morning fire gutted four apartment units and resulted in smoke and water damage to 16 others at the Avalon Watch apartment complex on Clarksville Road.    A three-story, 20-unit apartment building, the first…

  • Parents to ride school buses to ease opening day fears

    Project underway in West Windsor-Plainsboro School District By: Gwen Runkle    Parents leery of sending their elementary school students off alone on the first day of school in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District now have the opportunity to ride along.    Mary Alden, co-president of the J.V.B. Wicoff School Parent Teacher Association, has worked over the…

  • Mercer Cup gives PU teams early look

    Tiger men’s, women’s soccer teams play Wednesday in preseason tourney By: Justin Feil    Jim Barlow and Julie Shackford look forward to the Isles’ Mercer County Cup each year as an early test for their Princeton University soccer teams.    "Obviously we take it seriously," said Barlow, whose Tiger men’s squad had won each of the previous…

  • William Jahr

       CRANBURY — William F. Jahr III, 56, died Saturday, Aug. 25, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton.    Born in Fort Jackson, S.C., he was a longtime Piscataway resident before moving to Cranbury.    He retired in 1988 after 28 years as a detective with the Piscataway Police Department.    He was an Air Force veteran…