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  • Don’t miss this health screening

    Health department’s annual event provides area’s ‘best deal’ in medical screening By: John Patten    If you haven’t had the chance to have your blood pressure or cholesterol checked lately, you may want to stop by the municipal building June 9.    That’s the day the borough Health Department is offering an Adult Health Screening from 8:30…

  • Leslie J. Wallen

       HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — Leslie J. Wallen, 77, died Wednesday, May 16 at Hunterdon Medical Center, Raritan Township.    Born in Staten Island, N.Y., he lived in Hopewell more than 50 years.    He was a warehouse manager more than 15 years with Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, Jackson.    He was a Navy veteran of World War…

  • Provost Ostriker will leave PU for professorship at Cambridge

    He will continue to hold his faculty position as the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy and to work with his graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.    Princeton University Provost Jeremiah Ostriker will leave the second-highest office at the university at the end of this summer and assume a prestigious professorship at the University of Cambridge…

  • Light exercise for body; heavy exercise for mind

    THE STATE WE’RE IN by Michele S. Byers: International treaties make it illegal for humans to kill Canada geese, but an over-achieving frog can do so without fearing litigation. Some of us wondered if we should have intervened.    All elected officials will tell you that many of their constituents consider Canada geese, like deer, to…

  • Stuart breaks ground for expansion

    Procession launches $13 million project. By: Jeff Milgram    With the sound of a bagpiper leading a procession of students wearing plastic hard-hats, Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart ceremoniously began its $13 million expansion project under a cloudless sky Thursday.    "This is an end of … years of planning and raising money. It’s…

  • Beazer recognized by NJBA

    Virtual tours of The Woodlands at Hamilton cited    Beazer Homes was recognized recently by the New Jersey Builders Association for its technologically advanced virtual tours of The Woodlands at Hamilton, its new active adult community.    The virtual tours enable users to navigate through each of The Woodland’s garden home and townhouse designs unfurnished. Furniture periodically…

  • Princeton school district zeroing in on principals

    The search for a successor to Toby Kline, principal of the Community Park School, is down to four finalists. By: Jeff Milgram    It’s almost one down and three to go as the Princeton Regional School District works to fill two principal and two vice principal vacancies.    The search to find a successor to Toby Kline,…

  • Princeton Education Foundation grants support eight school projects

       The Princeton Education Foundation recently announced the recipients of eight grants, totaling $6,002, for Princeton public school projects at its annual reception at McLean House.    The grants are awarded by the foundation twice a year to teachers demonstrating a creative delivery of a topic or experience.    In awarding the grants, foundation board chair Patty Soffronoff…

  • Barbara J. VanGrofski

       Barbara J. VanGrofski, 56, of Fort Myers, Fla., died May 17 at her home in Monroe.    Born in Irvington, she lived in Union, Mercerville, Plainsboro and Monroe before moving to Fort Myers in 1996.    She graduated from Union High School and received a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education from Newark State College in…