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  • Compromise near on land diversion plan

    By: David Weinstein    Princeton Township and environmental groups concerned about a municipal land diversion plan have reached a tentative agreement that involves significant changes to Princeton’s initial plan.    Township officials, local citizens and members of Friends of Princeton Open Space, the Sierra Club and state officials hammered out a compromise Tuesday that could be formally…

  • Yom Kippur observance starts Sunday

    By: Michael Arges        EAST WINDSOR – What one Hebrew educator calls the "incredible psychological drama" of Yom Kippur begins Sunday at sundown and lasts until an hour after sundown on Monday.    Marking the end of a 10-day period of repentance that beganSept. 29 with Rosh Hashanah, the Yom Kippur period of intense fasting, confession…

  • PHASE THREE: Baseball memories surface as World Series approaches

    By:Arnold Bornstein    The term “our national pastime” doesn’t truly apply to baseball, but as we approach the World Series, it appears that even those with a limited or no interest in the game develop a degree of attention, perhaps because baseball evokes pleasant memories in its in-and-out relationship to our lives.    The memory may be…

  • Prognosis for patients with lupus has improved

    By:Dr. Gina Delgiudice    Autoimmune diseases involve complicated immune derangements whereby a person’s own immune system produces autoantibodies that leads to inflammation, tissue damage, and potential organ failure in that patient.    Susceptibility to these illnesses appears to be the result of both inherited and acquired factors triggered by an environmental event. Research is currently ongoing to…

  • Francisco Colon

    By:Staff ?    TRENTON – Francisco Vargas Colon, 92, died Sept. 28 at Millhouse Nursing Home.    Born in Ciales, Puerto Rico, he lived in Trenton five years.    He had been a farmer in Puerto Rico.    Son of the late Frarncisco Vargas and Roberta Colon, husband of the late Julia Rodriguez, father of the late Ernesto and…

  • More adjustments made to Route 1 traffic lights

    By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR – In an attempt to work the bugs out of its latest traffic-relief effort, the New Jersey Department of Transportation has made another timing change to green lights at two Route 1 crossings.    Beginning late last week, and only during the morning rush between 6:30 and 9:30 a.m., the…

  • Christian academy holds tax lien on store property

    Group paid more than $100,000 at Sept. 23 tax sale By: John Patten        EAST WINDSOR – While residents ponder the next anchor store for the Twin Rivers Shopping Center, a Christian school has taken steps that could lead to an eventual purchase of the property.    The Life Center Academy, a private Christian school in…

  • Pirates win fifth straight MCT tennis title

    Leung win at second singles seals title By: Justin Feil    Pearly Leung knew before her match started Wednesday that the weight of West Windsor-Plainsboro High South’s Mercer County Tournament championship chances rested on her.    The Pirates’ No. 2 singles player got off to a quick start to win the first set, 6-1, against Lawrenceville’s Alexis…

  • Packet Newspapers

    www.beaconnews.com Lambertville, Ringoes, New Hope and the surrounding Delaware River communities www.hopewellvalleynews.com Hopewell Borough, Hopewell Township, Pennington and Titusville www.windsorhightsherald.com Hightstown, East Windsor Township and Twin Rivers www.lawrenceledger.com Lawrence Township and Lawrenceville www.messengerpress.com Allentown Borough, Upper Freehold Township, Millstone Township, Roosevelt Borough and Washington Township www.princetonpacket.com Mercer, Somerset and Middlesex Counties, Princeton Township & Borough,…