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  • 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…

  • Letters to the Editor, Aug. 7

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Aug. 7 Shameful theft of worker’s bike To the editor:     Whoever stole the bike from in front of McCaffrey’s around 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon of August 4 should be doubly ashamed.    The theft was bad enough, but this bike belonged to a new resident of Princeton, a refugee from Burma…