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  • Corsets and old lace

    By:Julie Gartland        “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” — with a little help from the Victorian woman, who was willing to go to almost any length to look appealing and beautiful for the opposite sex.    Custom-made Victorian dresses and elaborate undergarments (or unmentionables) will be modeled during an hour-long program describing a…

  • CCRC plan generates opposition from residents

    LETTERS To the editor:    As a concerned senior citizen, hoping that the right kind of continuing-care retirement community will come to Princeton, I am bewildered by what the reasoning can be behind the hesitation of the Planning Board and the Township Committee in rewriting an ordinance that will make that possible.    It seems that many…

  • Young author enjoys fruits of her labors

    5-year-old from West Windsor wins NJ Network’s writing conest By: Jane Karlicek        A West Windsor Township resident has written and illustrated a children’s book that has won first place in New Jersey Network’s Reading Rainbow’s “Young Writers and Illustrators Contest.”    And she’s only been a resident a short time.    Erica Borsack, the author and…

  • Garage study inches ahead

    Borough Council moves on request for proposals By: Jennifer Potash        The Princeton Borough Council will move forward with a request for proposals to consider a downtown parking garage.    The council Tuesday made changes to a draft RFP for the garage and related development that it hopes to send out to potential developers later this…

  • Joseph Ely

    By: HIGHTSOWN — Joseph A. Ely Jr., 71, died Monday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton. Born in Hightstown, he was longtime area resident. He worked for the service department of The Peddie School. Son of the late J. Addison and Anna Cubberley Ely, he is survived by two brothers and sisters-in-law, Richard…

  • Planners reject Country Classics

    Van Cleef may apply again By:Jack Baney    The Planning Board voted Thursday night to deny Van Cleef Limited Family Partnership’s application to build 449 houses on Amsterdam Road as part of its Country Classics development.    Under terms of the board’s decision, Van Cleef still has the right to reapply. At the meeting, several board members…

  • Albina Welter, 79

       HILLSBOROUGH — Albina Welter died Wednesday, May 4, 2000, at home. She was 79.    Born in Pittston, Pa., she moved to Hillsborough in 1955.    Mrs. Welter was employed at Baker & Taylor Books in Somerville for 15 years.    She was a communicant of Mary, Mother of God Church in Hillsborough.    Her husband, William Welter, died…

  • A new love affair with Latin

    ‘Dead’ language is making a comeback in schools By: Jeff Milgram        Latina, quondam linqua poetarum Romanorum, imperatorum et ecclesiae catholicae redit.    If you can understand that sentence, you may be one of the rare people who studied Latin, rather than one of the popular modern languages such as Spanish, French, German or Italian, in…

  • Apartment life is fun, senior finds

    By:Louise Di Dia EAST WINDSOR — Think you are too old to start over? Then meet Anna Bucher, formerly a resident of Hightstown, now liv­ ing in East Windsor’s newest seniors apart­ ments, Wheaton Pointe. Ms. Bucher just celebrated her 82nd birth­ day on March 31 and is out on her own after 17 years…