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  • Stockton faces struggle to find cash for fire company

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    STOCKTON — The Stockton Fire Company needs approximately $500,000 for a new truck and is asking the borough to kick in some funds, but finding the money this year could be a challenge.    ”We’re working on a tight budget in 2008 and don’t see how we could do it this…

  • HEALTH MATTERS: Understanding teenage suicide

    Nearly 4,000 people between the ages of 15 and 24 die by suicide each year in the United States. By Jacqueline C. Oshiver, LCSW, MEd Princeton House Behavioral Health     MYTH: Once teens decide to kill themselves, nothing can stop them.     FACT: People have mixed emotions and may have a desperate need to live.…

  • Fire election has poor turnout

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — A dismal 1 percent voter turnout Saturday resulted in approval of the Board of Fire Commissioners’ budget and the return of an incumbent commissioner to office.    Only 27 of approximately 2,600 registered voters cast a ballot, according to Business Administrator Mary Elizabeth Sheppard.    Twenty persons cast their ballots…

  • Police Blotter-Feb. 21, 2008

    West Amwell    Feb. 6 at 9:35 p.m., there was an accident on Route 179 south of Kari Drive.    Annette Stoia of Lambertville was going south when for some reason, her vehicle left the road and hit a drainage ditch and an embankment.    The vehicle rolled several times, ejecting her. She was unconscious at the time…

  • DOT to return to complete Route 29 project

    By Linda Seida, Staff Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — The New Jersey Department of Transportation will return to Lambertville in mid-March to complete paving and other work on the Route 29 drainage project.    Residents and business owners are invited to a public information session Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Justice Center at 25 S.…

  • West Windsor Arts Council gets PNC grant

    The West Windsor Arts Council, a nonprofit organization with the mission to establish and manage the West Windsor Arts Center and to provide professional quality community arts programming in the greater West Windsor community, recently received a $1,000 grant from the PNC Fund at the Princeton Area Community Foundation. The grant will support the West…

  • LIVING WELL: Thinking anew about stress

    What if we could understand and distinguish between stress and tension? Between reaction and response? By Deborah Metzger Princeton Center for Yoga & Health     As you greeted 2008, armed with your New Year’s resolutions, possibly feeling stress about reverting to your typical routine, did you give much thought to what you were dreading?    …

  • 29 Days: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

    29 Days: Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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  • Tyco announces $300,000 in charitable grants

    Tyco International Ltd. announced $300,000 in grants to 11 organizations serving communities in the Princeton area. Programs serving vulnerable populations including children, youth and families, as well as women and the chronically underserved were among the activities that received funding. Tyco began its Princeton-area community outreach efforts soon after establishing its corporate offices in West…