Category: archives
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Editorial: Pledge to help your community this year
This year, The Beacon has brought you stories about the many volunteers in our area. But many more are needed in all areas of community service. Your fire companies, rescue squads, ladies auxiliaries, schools and nonprofit organizations all need your help. Everyone should make a New Year’s resolution, right now, to donate at least one…
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Footprints: Christmas on Mondays meant ‘great winters’
By: Iris Naylor Christmas Day fell on a Monday this year. It fell on a Monday in 1899, which prompted The Beacon to remind its readers of an old rhyme: "If Christmas day on Monday be, a great Winter that year you’ll see, and full of winds both loud and shrill." In 1899 the grass…
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B&B battle to continue
Plan to have bed and breakfast at historic home contested By: Cynthia Williamson LAMBERTVILLE – A hearing on a contested plan to create a bed and breakfast in a historic home at 111 N. Union St. will continue Jan. 25 before the Board of Adjustment. The hearing for owners Richard and Mary Freedman will begin…
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Letters
Library likes local control To the editor: I am responding to Anne Slepecky’s letter (Dec. 21), asking how to have access to the Hunterdon County Library. I believe that anyone wishing to join the county library system who does not live in a municipality which pays taxes toward the county system may do so by…
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Anger management
If you like abrasive, abusive, in-your-face comedy, look no further than New Brunswick’s Stress Factory on New Year’s Eve, where up-and-coming comedian and central Jersey native Jim Norton performed two shows. By: Jim Boyle "I love working New Year’s Eve. There’s always a great vibe. The crowd is already in a good mood, and I…
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Approval of PU’s complex seen as unavoidable
ANALYSIS By: David M. Campbell PLAINSBORO – Some critics are calling it ill-conceived and a threat to regional planning. Others say it is little more than a rubber stamp of a decades-old agreement between Plainsboro and Princeton University. Another opponent, Robert von Zumbusch of the group Friends of Princeton Nursery Lands, takes a less partisan…
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More flu vaccine expected soon
Request approved for 200 doses By: Jennifer Potash The Princeton Regional Health Department soon may obtain additional flu vaccine for members of the community. The department has received approval of its request for 200 doses from Aventis Pasteur, the manufacturer, said Health Officer William Hinshillwood. The additional doses are part of a deal between the…
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Schnur excited to come to Montgomery
Formal approval of new superintendent expected Jan. 2 By: Helen Pettigrew MONTGOMERY – Stuart Schnur, who is expected to take over as superintendent of the township school district March 1, says he felt a strong union with the district from the beginning of his interview process. "It just seems to me that this is a…
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Princeton school officials upbeat on crucial 2001
New year will set district’s course well into the future By: Jeff Milgram For the Princeton Regional School District, 2000 was a very good year. And the new year could be even better, setting the district’s future course for the next five, 10 or 20 years, according to school board President Charlotte Bialek and Superintendent…
