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  • NEWS UPDATE: DiGirolamo to stand trial on abandonment charges

    Millstone man to waive preliminary hearing, lawyer’s office says. By: Vic Monaco    Rosario DiGirolamo — labeled a person of interest in the disappearance of his mistress, Amy Giordano, of Hightstown — will stand trial on charges of abandoning the couple’s toddler boy outside a Delaware hospital.    Mr. DiGirolamo, 32, of Millstone, was scheduled for a…

  • AT WORK

    Robert J. KunertHamilton ResidentPlant ManagerStony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority By: Greg Forester     How did you get into this job?     Well, I was 20 years old, looking for a full-time job to get myself into. I was down in Bordentown, at the lumberyard applying for a job, and a man in the back of…

  • OBITUARIES, Aug. 14, 2007

    Joseph M. Boyd, Taihi Hong, Norma F. Roth Joseph M. Boyd Founded phone directory     Joseph Mortimer Boyd of Princeton died Thursday. He was 92.    Born in Chicago, he was a Princeton resident since 1947.    Mr. Boyd was founder and longtime proprietor of the Princeton Community Directory and Consumer Bureau.    He attended Harvard University from…

  • Property Transfers — July, 2007—Part1

    The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to…

  • Curtail choices in New Jersey governments

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Aug. 14    Back when the state Legislature was making a big show of researching and recommending ways to reduce property taxes, one of the more popular notions kicking around was reducing the extraordinary number of local governments in the state.    No other state comes close to matching the number of local governments New…

  • So, what makes a terrorist?

    Princeton University professor has some surprising answers in new book By: Nick Norlen    The revelation that last month’s attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow were perpetrated by several physicians came as a shock to many.    But not to Alan Krueger.    The Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Princeton University and an…

  • Property Transfers — July, 2007—Part 2

    The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to…

  • Ference, Cosgrove win CVCC titles

    Cortina, Sardi team up for partners win By: Justin Feil    Donna Cortina is looking forward to the Women’s Trenton District Golf Association’s Two Best Balls of Four Tournament at Copper Hill Country Club on Thursday.    It’s a chance for her to play with her fellow Cherry Valley Country Club members instead of against them.    On…

  • Resident’s plea for COAH waiver gets sympathetic ear

    Homeowner facing a $58,000 fee By: Nick Norlen    A Princeton Borough resident’s request for a waiver from affordable housing requirements has received a sympathetic reception from borough officials, but relief will likely only come with a revision of the rules.    Borough resident Pete Nogare appeared before Princeton Borough Council last Tuesday to request a waiver…