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  • Hillier gives view on next steps for West Windsor redevelopment

    Planner more upbeat, but still wary of project politics By: Greg Forester    WEST WINDSOR — The RMJM Hillier firm, tasked with planning the redevelopment project around the Princeton Junction Train Station, presented its recommendations for the future of the process Monday at the project’s Steering Committee meeting.    In the first seven months of 2007, the…

  • A changing landscape

    A changing landscape

    Grand openings, new offerings and consolidations: The region has never held so many choices for businesses and consumers seeking bank services By: Mike Mathis, Special Writer    When Randy Hanks was first asked if he would be interested in helping form a new financial institution, he wasn’t exactly banking on the venture succeeding.    There were,…

  • A changing landscape

    Grand openings, new offerings and consolidations: The region has never held so many choices for businesses and consumers seeking bank services By: Mike Mathis    When Randy Hanks was first asked if he would be interested in helping form a new financial institution, he wasn’t exactly banking on the venture succeeding.    There were, after all, plenty…

  • We’ll Take Staten Island

    We’ll Take Staten Island

    Circular doorway in the Chinese Scholar’s Garden.

  • A changing landscape

    A changing landscape

    In ‘thumbnail’ photo, The Bank of Princeton CEO Peter Crowley. Above, First Choice Bank CEO Randy Hanks, at left, and Executive Vice President Jim Bortolotti.

  • Wasting money on prison cells for drug users

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Aug. 7    Here’s a question you might think is a no-brainer: Who has a higher percentage of citizens locked up behind bars — Robert Mugabe or Jon Corzine?    If you picked the bloodthirsty dictator of Zimbabwe, you’re wrong. The governor of New Jersey presides over a prison system that incarcerates people at a…

  • Nip and tuck

    Prominent cosmetic surgeon tells all By: Kristin Boyd    You know the hot new surgical procedure that’s all the rage in Paris, the one that melts away cellulite and wrinkles with a crystallized magic wand — in 15 minutes?    Well, OK, maybe that’s a stretch. But you can bet if actress Nicole Kidman raved about it…

  • We’ll Take Staten Island

    We’ll Take Staten Island

    New York’s suburban borough is a surprising spot for art, architecture, gardens and food. By: Lauren Otis, TIMEOFF    As my car traverses the Outerbridge Crossing, descending into Staten Island, I pop "Enter the Wu-Tang" into the tape player. The crazy, loopy sounds of one of the greatest rap groups of all time, who improbably emerged…

  • Head out on the highway, looking for adventure …

    … and whatever topping comes our way By: Diane Landis Hackett    Pizza in Princeton can be delivered or picked up, eaten in or taken out but it has yet to roam — until now.    Nomad Pizza has turned the American tradition of grabbing a slice into a high-end party on wheels complete with a one…