Category: archives
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Montgomery puts final OK on $22 million budget
The new budget requires that $7.7 million be raised in taxes for municipal purposes. By: Helen Pettigrew MONTGOMERY The Township Committee has approved a $22 million budget for 2001. The budget, approved Thursday, carries a municipal tax rate of 34 cents per $100 of assessed value. Although the rate is the same as the…
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Communiversity coming to Princeton on Saturday
Annual spring street fair combines town and gown. On Saturday, between noon and 4 p.m., The Arts Council of Princeton and Princeton University will hold Princeton’s annual street fair, Communiversity 2001. The event will bring together township and borough residents, students, merchants, nonprofit organizations, performing artists, artisans and food vendors. Stages will be erected around…
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‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’
THEATER REVIEW: All other productions pale next to the thunderbolt that Bucks County Playhouse director Stephen Casey unleashes at the start of every summer season. By: Stuart Duncan Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat began as a 15-minute divertissement presented at a London primary school in 1968. The reaction was so exciting that composer Andrew…
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Katzenbach fears decline of government
Katzenbach details the political struggles between his office, presidents Kennedy and Johnson and Congress on key social issues and draws comparisons to today. By: Paul Esformes Former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach says that while he realizes "people my age always think that everything was better in their time," he has fears about the decline…
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It’s about time Mother Nature got it together
PACKET EDITORIAL, April 24 By: Packet Editorial The pear trees are in full bloom on Witherspoon Street. The undergrads are frolicking in the wading pool at the Woodrow Wilson School. The magnolias and daffodils are bursting out all over. Town and gown are gearing up for the annual "Communiversity" celebration Saturday. Ah, spring. Few places…
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Montgomery finds out where the deer roam
The large majority of deer reside directly west of Belle Mead-Blawenberg Road. By: Helen Pettigrew MONTGOMERY The local deer population resides mainly on the west side of the township, according to the results of an aerial infrared census that recently revealed a total population of about 2,869 deer. Township Committeewoman Ali Henkel, who is…
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Bartlett defeats Hart in court-ordered vote
Fran Bartlett, in her first bid for local elective office, defeated incumbent Republican John Hart 2,380 to 2,158 in special election Tuesday By: John Tredrea Democrat Francesca Bartlett has been elected to the Hopewell Township Committee. Ms. Bartlett, in her first bid for local elective office, defeated incumbent Republican John Hart 2,380 to 2,158 in…
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Montgomery to purchase 61 acres for open space
The Fox Brook tract, located on Sunset Road and Kildee Road, borders on three other tracts of open space that, together, will total more than 170 acres. By: Helen Pettigrew MONTGOMERY The Township Committee approved the purchase of 61.5 acres for open space preservation for $1.4 million at its meeting Thursday. The Fox Brook…
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Chef set for Monday’s Taste of the Nation
Executive chef Eric Hambrecht will be among those preparing dishes for the anti-poverty and anti-hunger fund-raiser, Taste of the Nation, at Plainsboro’s Doral Forrestal. By: Pat Tanner Eric Hambrecht of New Brunswick’s The Frog and The Peach restaurant has participated in every one of Princeton’s annual Taste of the Nation events since he came aboard…
