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  • In real life he plays the guy on TV

    Randy Madden drives the roads of Mercer County checking the reliability of the Verizon Wireless network. Yes, his job is a bit more technical than repeating ‘Can you hear me now?’ By Lauren Otis, Business Editor    From the outside it looks much like any other SUV plying the roads of Mercer County — a…

  • ‘Diary of the Dead’

    Writer-director George A. Romero doesn’t want to just mirror the YouTube generation’s obsession with documenting their lives: He wants to comment on it. By Elise Nakhnikian    IN one of those weird plot echoes that often reverberate in Hollywood, two horror films now showing — Cloverfield and Diary of the Dead — go for realistic chills…

  • Palatin cuts quarterly loss

       Cranbury-based biopharmaceutical company Palatin Technologies, Inc. (AMEX: PTN) reported a net loss of $3.8 million, or $0.04 per share, for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2007, compared to a net loss of $6.5 million, or $0.09 per share, for the same period in 2006. Total revenues for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2007 were…

  • Princeton HealthCare System Foundation Announces $2 Million Gift for New Hospital

    The Princeton HealthCare System (PHCS) Foundation today announced it has received a $2 million commitment from Stephen Distler and his wife, Roxanne Kendall, MD, of Princeto By Princeton HealthCare Systems "Without a doubt, what’s most exciting is the opportunity we have to build a regional medical center in our backyard and to build it from…

  • Dayton firm expands space

       Impact Unlimited, a provider of brand communications for events, exhibits, and meetings worldwide, has announced the addition of approximately 57,000-square-foot, at its headquarters facility in Dayton. Adding the space enabled Impact to consolidate its entire local inventory in-house and under one roof. The expansion allows Impact to maintain control of all warehousing, fabrication, and…

  • Donald T. Harney

    Former borough engineer     EWING — Donald T. Harney died Monday at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton. He was 76.    Born in Trenton, he was a lifelong area resident.    Mr. Harney was civil engineer and civil surveyor for Princeton Borough for many years and retired in 1989 as Mercer County engineer, a post…

  • Somerset County Business Partnership award nominees sought

       The Somerset County Business Partnership is seeking qualified nominees for its 58th annual Outstanding Citizen of the Year award and 14th annual Quality of Life award.    The awards are given for exemplary volunteer efforts demonstrating creativity, vision, leadership, and citizenship by providing service to programs and activities that positively impact the welfare of the…

  • 29 Days: Ella Fitzgerald

    29 Days: Ella Fitzgerald

    Ella Fitzgerald/Photo credit: notablebiographies.com

  • Gov. Corzine commemorates integration of NJ schools

    PRINCETON — Gov. Jon Corzine and Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells will host a celebration marking the 60th anniversary of the integration of New Jersey public schools at 10 a.m. Thursday in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall at Princeton University. The event will mark the New Jersey constitutional mandate adopted in 1947, which prohibited…