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  • Ethel Jaker

    By:Staff EAST WINDSOR — Ethel S. Jaker, 89, died May 26 at Princeton Nursing Home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she lived in Queens, N.Y., before moving to East Windsor five years ago. She worked with Macy’s and Gertz department stores and the Office of the City Register in Queens, N.Y, retiring in 1975. Mrs. Jaker…

  • Angela Haftel

    By:Staff WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP — Angela Lynn Haftel, 35, died May 24 at home. Born in Bethesda, Md., she lived in Gaithersburg, Md., before moving to Robbinsville four years ago. She was an assistant teacher at Maple Stream Road Pre-school, East Windsor, and a member of Har Sinai Temple. Sister of the late Jennifer Lee Eyre,…

  • Plan for school at Our Lady site gets high marks

    A generally favorable reaction to a proposed boys’ school at the Our Lady site was reported on the part of officials and neighbors. By: Jane Karlicek    A sampling of opinion from local officials and residents shows a generally favorable response to the recent announcement that Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart has an option to…

  • By God’s grace, a Sacred Heart for Our Lady?

    PACKET EDITORIAL, June 2 By: The prayers of a lot of people may have been answered in the past week by the Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart.    Call it a miracle. Or divine intervention. Or just-plain good timing. The private school that has taken up temporary quarters at the former site of the Our…

  • Around Cranbury

    By:Lorraine Sedor    The Cran­ bury Police Department Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 68 has teamed up with Cranbury Pizza and the Brain Injury Association of NJ, Inc. to sponsor a “Head Smart” safety program.   &nb­ sp;On June 1, the Cranbury Police Department began looking for peo­ ple wearing their helmets when bi­ cycling, skateboarding and…

  • Reaching out

    By:Phil McAuliffe Tina, an Asian elephant with the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus reaches for a photographers lens between performances in East Windsor.

  • Pride is tradition on graduation day

    Princeton University held its 253rd Commencement, Tuesday. By: Jeff Milgram  Taylor Reveley, replete with an orange-and-black striped bow tie, mused about his own time at Princeton University as he got ready to watch his brother, Everitt, graduate Tuesday.    “We were speaking about that before — how quickly the time flies by,” said Mr. Reveley, who…

  • Bypass opponents say protest was effective

    Demonstration calls attention to effort to preserve elm trees By: David M. Campbell    WEST WINDSOR — Opponents of the proposed Millstone Bypass are claiming a small victory in the effort to preserve the historic elm allée along Washington Road following a sign protest last weekend, despite the persistence of at least one vandal.    Last Friday,…

  • Police charge 5 after traffic stop leads to 4-hour manhunt

    A township police officer was injured last week while trying to arrest a West Virginia man who attempted to run from a traffic stop. By:David Weinstein        Patrol Officer Dan Olsson had attempted to arrest Gary Adkins, 23, of Pax, W. Va., following a May 25 traffic stop on Route 1 near Whispering Woods Boule­…