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  • Despite obstacles, yeshiva plans to be open, official says

    By: Matt Chiappardi    ROOSEVELT — The controversial Yeshiva Me’on Hatorah is planning to be open for the 2007-2008 school year, says yeshiva Vice President Josh Pruzansky. That’s despite a number of mammoth hurdles the Jewish school faces with regard to housing and other issues.    Those hurdles include:    • local zoning variances for two of three houses…

  • A Hungarian twist on summer favorite; Cranbury Delights makes ice cream daily

    By: Emily Holody    Groups of adults and children crowded the small standing area inside of Cranbury Delights last week.    As the July 20 rush began at Cranbury Delights, the lemon sorbet was nearly gone. An hour later, the Hungarian chocolate ice cream needed refilling, and the five remaining flavors had large dents in their gelato-style…

  • Township revaluation delayed; state blamed

    By: Vic Monaco    East Windsor — whose tax assessor insisted in May that a county-mandated tax revaluation would be completed for 2008 — will have its completion date pushed back, like Hightstown, to January 2009.    That was the word this week from Mercer County Tax Administrator Martin Guhl, who said the state had yet to…

  • ‘Marketing Madness’

    Event on Palmer Square finds merchants in a buouyant mood By: Katie Wagner    On the south portion of the Palmer Square green, a smiling, apron-clad Chez Alice employee was describing the ingredients used in butter-cream-frosted and chocolate-Jamaica rum-flavored cakes.    Nearby, representatives of Natural Kitchen Cooking School were recommending three of Princeton’s health food grocery stores…

  • Tax appeal’s borough impact would be less

    By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — The borough could lose $64,652 annually — under its current tax rate, which is set to rise — if the owners of the Minute Maid plant are successful in a tax appeal.    Due to miscommunication with borough Tax Assessor Ken Pacera, that figure was reported much higher in the July…

  • Dogs bark, folks gripe, judge balks

    PACKET EDITORIAL, July 27    Fans of Sherlock Holmes, the iconic detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, may recall a case that turned on the failure of a stable dog to bark while a race horse was being stolen. Holmes deduced from this that the culprit was a stable employee, rather than a stranger.    As with…

  • It’s all a matter of taste

    Food scientist directs Rutgers’ Sensory Evaluation Laboratory By: Pat Tanner    It seemed like a good idea at the time — but when the day came to be tested, I had serious misgivings.    I had met Beverly Tepper, Ph.D., director of Rutgers University’s Sensory Evaluation Laboratory in New Brunswick, socially, through mutual friends, and when I…

  • McPherson is first winner of military writing prize

       James McPherson, Princeton University’s George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History Emeritus, has been selected to receive the first Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.    Professor McPherson has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including "Lincoln and the Second American Revolution," "Drawn With the Sword: Reflections on the…

  • That good old feeling

    Montgomery 11s win second straight Ripken state title By: Bob Nuse    MOUNT LAUREL — Most members of the Montgomery 11-year-old Cal Ripken all-star baseball team already knew the feeling of winning a Southern New Jersey state championship.    They also knew that winning a second straight championship wasn’t going to be easy.    But whether the team…