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  • Jean A. Ball

    Services Wednesday and Thursday    Jean A. Ball, 90, died Sunday at home.    Born in Potenza, Italy, she lived in Lawrenceville 45 years.    Daughter of the late John and Erminia Carlucci Perilo, wife of the late John T. Ball, and grandmother of the late Edward J. DiNatale, she is survived by a son, John Genovesi of…

  • Stuart field hockey continues winning trend

    By: Bob Nuse    Last year the Stuart Country Day School field hockey team put together the kind of season you would think comes around only once in a great while.    The Tartans won the state prep championship as well as the Prep Conference title last year. And they did it with a veteran team that…

  • Voters say ‘Yes’ in referendum

    $21.5M work project approved more than 2-to-1 By:Laura Toto    Hillsborough voters in a school district-wide referendum Tuesday night overwhelmingly approved a $21.5 million construction project that will remake the district’s elementary and middle schools.    A total 3,726 voters participated in the referendum, approving the Board of Education’s proposal 2,549-1,177. There are 16,505 registered voters in…

  • Veteran deputy clerk to retire

    By: Jennifer Potash    After 22 years at the front desk, or the front lines some might say, of the Princeton Borough Clerk’s Office, Deputy Clerk Margaret "Peggy" Whitlock is stepping down.    She plans to retire by the end of year.    The daily tasks of directing people to the appropriate offices in Borough Hall, working on…

  • University officials to present five-year development plan

    By: Jeff Milgram    Princeton University is continuing with its plans to build a science zone in the southeast corner of campus and a pedestrian bridge to link both sides of Washington Road.    University officials are scheduled to come before the Princeton Regional Planning Board on Thursday to present the university’s master plan for development over…

  • PU works overtime to get Hughes’ first win

    Northrop nails game-winner to beat Columbia By: Justin Feil    NEW YORK – For one second, said Roger Hughes, the thought crossed his mind to go for the two-point conversion and the win with 47 seconds left in the fourth quarter and his Princeton University football team trailing Columbia, 24-23.    Then the Tiger head coach sent…

  • Overcrowded rental units move to council stage

    By: Jennifer Potash    Overcrowded rental units in the John-Witherspoon neighborhood and the associated quality-of-life problems are expected to be brought before the Princeton Borough Council tonight.    Neighborhood residents held two meetings during the summer to discuss the problems and how the borough government could help, and are expected to be at tonight’s meeting.    Minnie Craig,…

  • New state law will hike cost of building schools

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 3, 2000     The Law of Unintended Consequences has struck again.    This time, the target is New Jersey’s public schools – or, more precisely, those New Jersey public schools that have not yet been built. The consequence, which was clearly unintended, is that the cost of building these schools may have just…

  • Aerial census may lead to deer shoot

    By: Helen Pettigrew    MONTGOMERY – Township Committeewoman Ali Henkel will ask her colleagues Thursday to begin taking several steps to address the township’s increasing deer population, including an aerial census of the herd to justify the hiring of sharpshooters.    "I think it’s important that, this year, we compile as much information as we can so…