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  • ‘MEDICAL TIPS’: A ‘must’ read

    ‘MEDICAL TIPS’: A ‘must’ read

    By Michael Redmond The Packet Group     There’s a book just out which I suspect many health care providers and insurers really do not want you to read. It’s a modest paperback by name of “Medical Tips from the Inside … Things You Need to Know” (Merit Publishing, 144 pages), it costs all of $13.95,…

  • Judge elevated to Appellate Division

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — City resident Alexander P. Waugh Jr., a state Superior Court judge, has presided over his share of interesting cases.    There was the one that involved a nude juice bar in Sayreville earlier this year. Another involved an elderly woman worth $25 million.    The case of the nude juice…

  • Earl W. Marcellious

    Former Princeton resident     TABERNACLE — Earl Woodrow Marcellious died Thursday at Care One at Evesham, Marlton. He was 90.    Born in Philadelphia, he was a former longtime resident of Princeton and Browns Mills before moving to Tabernacle.    While living in Princeton he was a chauffeur and was later a civilian armorer at McGuire Air…

  • Police seek gunman in Bordentown City shooting

    By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer     BORDENTOWN CITY — Police are investigating a shooting on Borden Street early Sunday morning that left a Fieldsboro resident wounded.     According to city Police Chief Matthew Simmons the shooting took place outside at 1:15 a.m., and left David Pickett, 40, with a gunshot wound that went through his…

  • Stephen D. Tomlinson

    Career in data security     PLAINSBORO — Stephen Drew Tomlinson died at home this past week. He was 50.    Born in Aurora, Ill., he moved with his family to Princeton in 1961, where he grew up and spent most of his life. He later lived in West Windsor and most recently moved to Plainsboro.    He…

  • Margaret S. Drummond

    PHS guidance secretary     Margaret Sarah Drummond of Princeton died Sunday at Merwick Rehab Hospital and Nursing Care. She was 83.    Born in Princeton, she was a lifelong area resident.    She graduated from Princeton High School and attended Rider College.    She worked at Princeton University library until her marriage to Robert Drummond in 1946.    She…

  • Dr. Lawrence T. Taft

    Pediatrician     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — Dr. Lawrence T. Taft died Wednesday. He was 84.    He was a former resident of Riverdale, N.Y., New Rochelle, N.Y. and Brookline, Mass.    A pediatrician, in 1973 he established a Department of Pediatrics and was the department’s first chairman at Rutgers Medical School in New Brunswick, now the Robert Wood…

  • Bridgewater man tapped to head Woodfern School

    By Eileen Oldfield Staff Writer    It started with substitute teaching 14 years ago, and it led Anthony Caparoso, of Bridgewater, to the principal position at Woodfern Elementary School after the Board of Education appointed him the position last week.    ”I have always loved working with children,” Mr. Caparoso said. “The excitement children exhibit when learning…

  • Council objects to new housing rules

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer Say ending regional agreements will raise local taxes    To oppose the newest amendments to the Council on Affordable Housing’s (COAH) third-round regulations, the Borough Council approved a resolution Monday expressing its discontent with legislation passed earlier in the day that council members said would create more property-tax increases.    The amendments…