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  • School district provides quality education

    By: Jeffrey Bond and Catherine Tolmie To the editor:    We are happy to have three graduates in the Class of 2000 — one from Douglass College and two from Hightstown High School.    It’s long overdue that we publicly thank the East Windsor Regional Schools for a total of 39 years of quality education. In these…

  • From the mind of Michel Mockers

    By: Ilene Dube    The following excepts from the writings of Michel Mockers form the foundations of the PHOENIX philosophy:    “Since the Renaissance, conflicts pitting labor and management against each other have been due to a permanent policy of keeping the workers’ salaries as low as possible while keeping profit as high as possible.” ***    “Art…

  • OBITUARIES, June 16, 2000

    Michele Tamasi, David Heaps, Pamela Donath, Gino Treves, Andrea Paoletti, Robert Faherty, Margaret Sutphen, Mary Lawson, Alex D. Fox. Michele A. Tamasi Worked at Sarnoff facility    Michele Angelo Tamasi of Princeton Borough died Tuesday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. He was 85.    Born in Carpinone, Italy, he was a longtime Princeton…

  • MacLean lot parking squeeze looms

    Will shrink to accommodate housing By: Jennifer Potash    The MacLean Street parking lot has become the subject of a quiet dispute in the overall battle for parking spots in the downtown.    In less than a week, the borough is expected to begin construction of 12 units of affordable housing — six on MacLean Street and…

  • A new voice

    University hires new communications director By: Jeff Milgram    Princeton University has appointed Lauren Robinson-Brown, a former journalist who serves as the assistant New Jersey secretary of state, to the post of director of communications.    Ms. Robinson-Brown succeeds Justin Harmon, who left Princeton in May to become the communications director at Wesleyan University. She will assume…

  • Five students charged with high school burglary

    Prom queen among students facing prosecution for damaging school property By: Mark Moffa HIGHTSTOWN — Five Hightstown High School seniors, including this year’s prom queen, are charged with burglary and criminal mischief after they allegedly broke into the school early Thursday morning causing damage estimated in the thousands of dollars. According to Hightstown Police Detective…

  • Herman Halupka

    By: Staff HIGHTSTOWN — Herman J. Halupka, 79, of Jacksonville, Fla., died June 8 at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, in Hightstown. Mr. Halupka was born in Taylor, Pa., ands lived most of his life in the New Brunswick area. He had been living in Jacksonville, Fla., before his death. He was a…

  • Cuts approved in borough budget

    Tax increase to be reduced By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Borough Council moved one step closer to adopting the 2000 municipal budget Tuesday by approving a $137,000 amendment that trimmed 1 cent from the proposed tax-rate increase.    The public hearing on the amendment to the proposed budget is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Borough…

  • Report finds grade school overcrowding

    Most of the youngest students in the Princeton and West Windsor-Plainsboro school districts attend classes that are overcrowded, according to a recent report. By: Jeff Milgram    Most of the youngest students in the Princeton Regional and West Windsor-Plainsboro school districts attend classes that are overcrowded, according to a report released Wednesday by Rep. Rush Holt…