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  • Baseball Player of the Year

    Russo’s all-around improvement lifted Raiders By: Bob Nuse    They look nothing alike, but Hun School baseball coach Bill McQuade can see a lot of Steve Garrison in Mike Russo.    "As a freshman, you could see some similarities between Mike and Steve in terms of personality and demeanor," said McQuade, the longtime baseball coach at Hun.…

  • ‘Nobel Dreaming’ reading workshops begin

    Plainsboro Library program to discuss Nobel Prize-winning authors’ works By: Allison Musante    PLAINSBORO — The Plainsboro Public Library is inviting children and adults to participate in its Nobel Dreaming Discovery workshop in which participants will discuss the work of Nobel prize-winning authors with award-winning area poet-teachers.    Each workshop will focus on one of the three…

  • Corner House sets June 23 bicycling ‘Grand Prix’

       Now that summer’s almost here, put your pedal to the metal and participate in one of several grand prix races June 23. Proceeds from the races, scheduled for both children and adults, benefit the Corner House Counseling Agency in Princeton.    The Corner House Grand Prix Adult races begin at 7 a.m. and include three categories:…

  • Pair makes Arena proud

    Gymnasts reach national level By: Bob Nuse    Making it to the national level as a gymnast isn’t easy. But Valdi Kolasa could tell that he had a couple of gymnasts capable of doing just that in Alina Weinstein and Gabrielle Swain.    "I’m not surprised they are doing this well," said Kolasa, their coach at Arena…

  • New Route 206 Bypass plan to get public review

    Meeting slated Wednesday in Hillsborough By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — Residents will have an opportunity to review the revised Route 206 Bypass project Wednesday at the Hillsborough Municipal Building between 4 and 7:30 p.m.    The plan represents a consensus wrought between Montgomery, Hillsborough, and the New Jersey Department of Transportation on a plan that has…

  • OBITUARIES, June 12, 2007

    Jeanie M. Walker, Katherine B. Wilson, Felice Toto, Edwin D. Shaw Jr., Wilfred P. Reynolds, Frances Sanders Jeanie M. Walker Longtime Princeton resident     LEXINGTON, Mass. — Jeanie Miles Walker died May 17 at home at Brookhaven. She was 89.    Born the youngest of four children to Louis Wardlaw and Katharine Stockton Miles in Princeton,…

  • Princeton High Studio Jazz Band to celebrate 30th anniversary

    Event slated Saturday at new auditorium By: Olivia Tattory    The Princeton High School Studio Jazz Band will celebrate its 30th anniversary and pay tribute to band alumni at a reunion concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 16, in the high school’s new Trego-Biancosino Auditorium on Walnut Lane. The event is the first to be performed…

  • BRIEFCASE

    Issue of June 12, 2007 PNC Bank to acquire YNB    The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. based in Pittsburgh, Pa. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hamilton-based Yardville National Bancorp for $403 million in stock and cash, or approximately $35 per share. YNB has $2 billion in deposits and 33 branches…

  • Donation to create new university neuroscience center

    McDonnell brothers make another major gift to Princeton By: Nick Norlen    Princeton University announced Friday that two frequent donors have given $30 million to establish a new neuroscience center on campus.    The gift from brothers and university alumni John F. McDonnell and James S. McDonnell III, a university trustee, will create the McDonnell Center for…