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  • Ordinance takes aim at illegal subletting

    By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR – The Township Council is expected to adopt an ordinance empowering the township to prosecute those who illegally sublet affordable-housing units.    At an Oct. 10 meeting, council members asked Planning Board Attorney Gerald Muller to draft an ordinance to regulate the use of affordable housing in the township, said…

  • Pirates pitch 3-0 shut out in much anticipated game

       This wasn’t your typical soccer game between a team with a losing record and one with aspirations of playing for state and conference championships.    That’s because this was the first-ever boys’ soccer meeting between West Windsor-Plainsboro High North and WW-P South. And despite the fact that South emerged with an expected win, beating North, 3-0,…

  • Elliot Shteir, 79

       SOMERVILLE — Elliot Shteir died Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000, at Somerset Medical Center, Somerville. He was 79.    Born in New York City, he spent many years in Metuchen and then in Neshanic, where his family owned and operated the village general store on Amwell Road.    Mr. Shteir served on Somerville’s Downtown Management Corporation and on…

  • A lesson in rational decision-making

    Schools adopt technique to teach how to make decisions. By: Jeff Milgram    Rick Miller is working the civics classroom like a talk-show host.    "We’re going to compare the candidates on the issues … What do you want from a candidate and what do you need?" he asks the eighth-grade civics class at the John Witherspoon…

  • DEBATE TOPICS

    If you could ask this year’s municipal candidates — Republicans Mike Avolio and Tony Gwiazdowski, and Democrats Mayor Joseph Tricarico and Committeewoman Sonya Martin — what would you ask? Make your suggestion today, by writing to [email protected].

  • ‘Shades of the Past’

    Mercer Oak memories shared at Historical Society gala By:Christian Kirkpatrick    Past, present and future mingled graciously Saturday night as supporters of the Historical Society of Princeton gathered at Drumthwacket to honor a local symbol, celebrate the success of the organization’s current exhibit and talk about future plans.    The theme of the evening’s dinner dance was…

  • Make full use of town’s talents to craft plan

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 13 By: Packet Editorial    Over the next two months, the Princeton Regional School District will be making some very important decisions about how – and where – it is going to grow in the years to come. The district will be missing a golden opportunity if it does not take full advantage…

  • Surviving breast cancer

    It takes a team By:Christian Kirkpatrick    When urging people to join the New Jersey Race for the Cure, David and Nancy Young can be very persuasive. So persuasive that the team they enter each year has grown from 27 members in 1998 to 71.    They call the team the Young Survivors because they are the…

  • Sarantis G. Psyllos

    Services Tuesday and Wednesday    Sarantis G. Psyllos, 74, died Saturday at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital, Trenton.    Born in Chios, Greece, he moved to Lawrenceville in 1966.    He retired from U.S. Steel Fairless Works and served with the Greek Navy during World War II.    Son of the late George and Kyriaki Galanos Psyllos and…