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  • Stuart senior is karate champion

    Princeton resident Wiseman will defend title next year By: Bob Nuse    While many of her Stuart Country Day School classmates are aware that Vicki Wiseman is involved in Tang Soo Do, chances are few realize just how good she is at the form of karate.    "Sometimes people will ask me about it, or joke about…

  • New Year’s gift

    ‘Amahl and The Night Visitors’ returns as part of Curtain Calls 2000, the Arts Council of Princeton’s New Year’s Eve celebration which includes events at multiple venues. By: Matt Smith Elliot Creager (left) and Matt Goss (right) play Amahl in individual performances of Amahl and The Night Visitors on New Year’s Eve. The production’s stage…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Fitzpatricks welcome Devon, sisters

    Extended family, WW-PS players helping coach maintain busy schedule By: Justin Feil    Beth Fitzpatrick used to want nine children, enough for a baseball team. Now she knows she won’t need as many.    Her first child, Devon Kelly, already has nine big sisters – the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South girls’ varsity basketball team – plus plenty…

  • Princeton, Trenton to be pilot sites for community prosecution program

    County prosecutor takes new approach By: David Weinstein    Community policing is a buzzword these days.    But it also is a working law enforcement model whose foundation and success are built on strong relationships between police officers and citizens, Mercer County Prosecutor Daniel Giaquinto said Friday morning.    And now, he said, his office is moving toward…

  • Whitman pick sends message of moderation

    EDITORIAL    On first impression, Gov. Christie Whitman seems an improbable choice to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.    In a field that is rooted in science and governed by a complex web of statutes, regulations and court decisions, Gov. Whitman is neither a scientist nor a lawyer. Her experience as chief executive of…