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  • 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…

  • MILESTONES

    Issue of June 12, 2007 HEALTH & MEDICINE    Princeton prosthodontist Dr. Kenneth Kent was presented the first place award for Outstanding Clinical Poster Presentation at the 12th Biennial International Conference on Reconstructive Preprosthetic Surgery for his presentation "Robotic Animation of Facial Prostheses." Dr. Kent reviewed the advances in facial materials and robotic animation that will…

  • Letters to the Editor, June 12

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, June 12 What happened to tax relief? To the editor:     To the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," we are compelled to wonder, where has all concern for property tax relief gone?    Governor Corzine, may he heal rapidly, appears to have the state budget under control, and with…

  • No slowing McIsaac in Fete race

    Surprised Kirsch claims women’s crown By: Justin Feil    Those that had hoped Glenn McIsaac might come back to the pack with age are going to have to wait a lot longer than expected.    The Princeton resident has no plans to slow down and proved so with his second career victory at the June Fete 10k…

  • Wanted: ‘Disrupters’ to make big mark in business

    Changing the world of business requires a maverick, Princeton conference told By: Lauren Otis    Anyone who operates their own business, such as a gas station owner, is an entrepreneur, but "the big lasting businesses — the Googles, the Apples, the Intels of the world — to do that you have to be disruptive," William R.…

  • Amid life changes, a venture has been constant

    WOMEN & BUSINESSNow East and West Coast residents, pair continue to run their stationary design business By: Lauren Otis    Just about everything in Melissa Hall Klepacki’s and Amy Turner Senftleben’s life has changed since they were single women in New York City. They are now both married, have children and are living in the suburbs,…