Category: archives
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Plainsboro projects funded
PLAINSBORO – The township is proceeding with three major improvement projects, with the help of federal and county money. The township expects to seek bids in December for its plan to build a jughandle for the intersection of Schalk’s Crossing and Scudders Mill roads, and on the second phase of Community Park, which will include…
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Nobel winner looks for key to life
University lecture honors memory of Einstein By: Jeff Milgram All Richard J. Roberts wants to know is the mystery of life. "I’m hopeful that sometime before I die we’ll understand how primitive organisms work … then how humans work," said Dr. Roberts, who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1993 for his…
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School raising cash with Halloween bash
By:Lorraine Sedor Tonight’s the night for the big Halloween Bash to benefit the Better Beginnings Day Care Center. The party is being held at the Brunskill’s potato barn at 76 Cranbury Neck Road from 8:30 to 12:30 p.m. Come in costume and bring a $15 donation, your dancing shoes, beverage of your choice and either…
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Monroe purchases GPU streetlights
By:Al Wicklund MONROE — An agreement between the township and GPU Energy that is expected to give Monroe better street lighting at lower cost was authorized recently by the Township Council. The council gave the go-ahead Oct. 2 for the township to purchase 2,520 existing street lights, poles and electrical fixtures, from GPU Energy power…
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Ambitious senior survey planned
Neighborhood volunteers needed for door-to-door effort By: David Weinstein Employing time-tested tactics from voter-registration drives, the Princeton Department of Human Services and a group of volunteers hope to conduct the most comprehensive opinion survey of senior citizens ever conducted in the borough and township. The findings are expected to be the basis of a comprehensive…
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Race works to improve ‘life after breast cancer’
By: Michael Arges Saturday’s Race for the Cure will do more than raise money for breast cancer research and support programs – the race also helps educate many about the latest treatments and advances in fighting breast cancer. For example, according to East Windsor resident Nancy Healey, active, younger persons need to hear the…
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Documentary examines history of Peddie School
By:Staff TRENTON – The New Jersey Network will examine the history of The Peddie School in Hightstown, educational training ground for tens of thousands of New Jersey’s best and brightest for more than 135 years, this week. NJN Public Television will chronicle the history and modern-day impact of the famed Mercer County prep school that…
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EDITORIAL: Press endorses Larsen in Jamesburg
By: Jamesburg has solved many of its problems over the past several year s. It has its own dispatching service, it is getting a traffic light at the dan gerous intersection of Gatzmer Avenue, Forsgate Drive and Perrineville Road and it has a new Borough Hall. But more still needs to be done, es pecially…
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Site at shopping center chosen for interim library
During construction of the new Princeton Public Library, a temporary facility would be located at the site of the present bookstore. By: Jennifer Potash The Princeton Public Library is expected to rent space at the Princeton Shopping Center while a new library is constructed, it was announced Tuesday. The Library Board of Trustees unanimously authorized…
