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  • Property tax bills on way

    By: Jeff Milgram    Property tax bills, delayed by the adoption of the Mercer County budget, will start to go out by the middle of next week, according to Princeton Township Chief Financial Officer John Clawson.    Princeton Borough property owners won’t get their tax bills until the middle of August. And officials in West Windsor aren’t…

  • Nicholas Altieri

    Owned Town House Motel and Coach and Four Restaurant By: Staff    MONROE – Nicholas L. Altieri, 85, died July 19 at home.    Born in Long island, N.Y., he lived in Bayonne and Hightstown before moving to Monroe.    Mr. Altieri received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Newark College of Engineering, a master’s in administration…

  • A SUMMER OF ART: Students find summer classes a hot idea

    By:Brian Shappell    The place to be in July for young students in the township was, believe it or not, the Cranbury School.    That is because the Cranbury Arts Council offered its third year of summer classes at the school. The two-week program, which enrolled about 35 students when it began three years ago, this season…

  • Major grant boosts McCarter Theatre’s fortunes

    The Princeton theater company expects to receive $975,000. By: Jeff Milgram    McCarter Theatre expects to receive $975,000 in grant money as part of an $18 million program to fund the first three years of a five-year initiative supporting the country’s major nonprofit theaters.    "This grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon…

  • Lab bets on new reactor design in fusion race

    Researcher’s new design resembles a giant Christmas tree bulb. By: Jeff Milgram    With its banks of computer terminals, the control room of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in Plainsboro looks like mission central for a space launch.    Some of the scientists and technicians peer at their computer screens, others look in the direction of a…

  • OBITUARIES, July 28, 2000

    John Wilder Tukey, Harold J. Kramer, Richard T. Wiley Sr., Donald J. Symonoski, Nicholas L. Altieri John Wilder Tukey Pioneering statistician    John Wilder Tukey, an emeritus Princeton professor considered to be one of the most important contributors to modern statistics, died Tuesday. He was 85.    Dr. Tukey developed many of the important tools of modern…

  • Shubiak sisters great teammates on and off court

    By: Rudy Brandl        The Shubiak sisters are having a great time playing basketball together this summer, but they realize this could be the last time they’re on the same team.    Last week, 14-year-old Melissa and 16-year-old Kristen led the Manville summer squad to a 49-42 victory over Somerville for the team’s first triumph of…

  • U.S. Lightweight coxswain is Cinderella story

    Princeton junior Fien-Helfman has gone from an inner-city back-up to cox the defending world champion crew By: Justin Feil    If the last two and a half years of Josh Fien-Helfman’s life were a movie, it would be categorized fantasy.    Definitely fantasy.    The events that have taken the Princeton University junior from the depths of the…

  • Pioneering Princeton statistician John Tukey dies

       John Wilder Tukey, an emeritus Princeton professor considered to be one of the most important contributors to modern statistics, died Wednesday. He was 85.    Dr. Tukey developed many important tools of modern statistics and introduced concepts that were central to the creation of today’s telecommunications technologies. In addition to his formidable research achievements, Tukey was…