Category: archives
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Candidates qualify for ‘clean election’ funds
Assembly, Senate hopefuls receive at least 400 $10 donations in state experiment By: Paul Koepp Clean elections may be here to stay, as 15 of the 20 candidates participating in the state’s experiment in public financing for campaigns including all local Republican and Democratic legislative candidates have passed the initial test of receiving…
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West Windsor woman pleads guilty in captive worker case
Filipino was brought to the U.S. as a nanny and ended up a virtual slave By: Greg Forester WEST WINDSOR She came to the country to work as a nanny after being promised $8 an hour and overtime pay Instead she found herself living as a captive worker in the home of a West…
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Letters to the Editor, Aug. 28
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Aug. 28 State Senate race needs open discussion To the editor: I was ashamed to read a recent negative attack letter printed in the Princeton Packet and Trentonian from Democratic activist Larry Rosenthal aimed against Bill Baroni. Mr. Rosenthal should consider the fact that his party’s candidate, Seema Singh, reportedly…
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Dorothy Bogert Savidge
Dorothy Bogert Savidge, 92, of Washington, Vt., died Monday in Sewell. She and her family were residents of the Hopewell Township-Lambertville area for many years. Born in Wycoff, she attended school in Hackensack and graduated from Trenton State College in 1935 with a degree in elementary education. She taught elementary school in Point Pleasant, West…
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OBITUARIES, Aug. 28, 2007
Brig. Gen William Whipple Jr., George L. James III, Filomena T. Carnevale, John R. Herriott Sr., Robert J. Lau, Dawne J. Murphy, Ralph A. Lorini, Miklos Schwartz, Dr. Floyd Weinstock Gen. William Whipple Jr. Career in civil engineering PLAINSBORO — Brig. Gen. William Whipple, Jr. of Princeton, a retired Army officer, Rhodes scholar, and…
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Local police feel burden of state directive to check legal residence
In serious crimes and drunken driving cases, an order to determine immigrant status By: Nick Norlen Wednesday’s state attorney general directive requiring law enforcement officials to inquire about suspects’ legal residence status in some cases has left Princeton’s two police chiefs with questions and immigrant advocates with concerns. Issued by state Attorney General…
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PU basketball recalls van Breda Kolff
Former Tiger coach left mark By: Justin Feil Forty years after Butch van Breda Kolff left Princeton University to be head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, his influence remains strong among the Tigers men’s basketball family. The family lost one of its patriarchs when van Breda Kolff died Wednesday at the age of 84…
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Disaster behind PU women’s soccer
Tigers return fitter to start season By: Justin Feil The Princeton University women’s soccer team fully expects to bounce back from what they label a disaster. It took a four-game winning streak at the end of last year just to finish with an 8-7-1 record, its 10th straight winning season. The four-game streak in which…
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Get a ‘Second Life’ at virtual Princeton University
A new home for some venerable campus buildings By: Katie Wagner Some of Princeton University’s most historic buildings have been given a new home. A student returning to campus, however, wouldn’t be able to notice the change unless he or she logged on to Second Life, a 3-D virtual world accessible through the Internet that…
