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  • Man murdered during argument at Sleep-E-Hollow Motel

       A Trenton man was shot to death at the Sleep-E-Hollow Motel early Monday morning following an argument with four men regarding his girlfriend, police said. This is the first murder in Lawrence since 1997.    Shawn Anderson, 27, of Rosemont Avenue, Trenton, was shot in the left arm while he was standing in front of a…

  • Princeton University names new president

    Professor Shirley M. Tilghman will succeed Harold Shapiro on June 15. By: Jeff Milgram Princeton University new president, Shirley M. Tilghman    Princeton University broke new ground Saturday when it named Professor Shirley M. Tilghman, the founding director of its Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, as its 19th president.    Professor Tilghman, who will succeed Harold T.…

  • BREAKING NEWS: Princeton University names new president

    Professor Shirley M. Tilghman will succeed Harold Shapiro on June 15. By: Jeff Milgram Princeton University new president, Shirley M. Tilghman    Princeton University broke new ground Saturday when it named Professor Shirley M. Tilghman, the founding director of its Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, as its 19th president.    Professor Tilghman, who will succeed Harold T.…

  • ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’

    THEATER REVIEW: Bucks County Playhouse will have you howling in pure delight and swallowing a lump in your throat with this production. By:Stuart Duncan    When You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brow opened in early March of 1967, Walter Kerr of The N.Y. Herald Tribune did something he had never done before and would never do…

  • A ‘yes’ vote for top-quality school facilities

    PACKET EDITORIAL, May 4 By: Packet Editorial    From the outside, Princeton High School has as impressive a facade as any secondary school in the country. Its distinctive tower and stately grounds give it the feel more of an exclusive private college than a public high school.    On the inside, however, Princeton High School is a…

  • Cranbury high-schooler keeps cars fine-tuned

    Brian Davidson won first prize in the New Jersey Collision Repair Technology competition at the New Jersey Skills USA-VICA conference in Somerset County. By:Casha Caponegro        When Brian Davidson was 10 years old, he performed his first brake job on his mother’s automobile. Even at that young age, he knew that he wanted to work…

  • Elizabethtown deems water OK to drink

    The boil water advisory has been put on ice. By: Jeff Milgram    Put away the bottled water and don’t be afraid to drink a cup of coffee or a soda with ice.    It’s perfectly fine to drink water straight out of the tap, according to The Elizabethtown Water Co., which lifted its two-day boil-water advisory…

  • Eleanor Eleniewski

    Eleanor Blanchard Eleniewski, 89, died Monday at Maine Medical Center, Portland. Born in Hopewell, she lived in Pennington, southern New York state and Pennsylvania before moving to Portland eight years ago. Mrs. Eleniewski worked with the Alumni Fund Office of Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) College many years. She graduated from Rider College. Daughter of the late Cecil…

  • Board selects newest member

    The school board chose Mr. Ransegnola over Ken Griffin and Nina Visconti-Phillips to fill the one-year vacancy on the board after interviewing the three in closed session Tuesday evening. By:Brian Shappell        Frank Ransegnola has won a place on the Board of Education — albeit, a little later than planned.    The school board chose Mr.…