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  • WW council supports application for a green redevelopment program

    Some reservations voiced on cost and payoff By: Nick Norlen    WEST WINDSOR — Despite the absence of councilman Charles Morgan, whose concerns led to the tabling of the issue last week, West Windsor Township Council Monday endorsed an application for a program to govern environmental standards for the redevelopment area surrounding the Princeton Junction train…

  • Message from Amazon.com: Keep an eye on the long haul

    Long-run outcomes key in decision making, executive advises By: Claire Abramowitz    Amazon.com’s senior vice president for North American retail discussed leadership and tough choices on Wednesday in the final lecture of this year’s "Leadership in a Technological World" series at Princeton University.    Jeff Wilke, a 1989 Princeton graduate, drew on his experiences as an undergraduate…

  • Letters to the editor

    Week of April 20 Local designation key for district To the editor:     The Historic Preservation Commission’s survey to Stockton Street Historic District residents represents a good step.    The feedback received from residents should not be taken as a final analysis or as an implementation plan. Not unlike the restoration of a historic home, progress…

  • Kids and Community

    Prejudices still alive in our society By: The dust finally is starting to settle after last weeks media frenzy surrounding radio personality Don Imus and the Rutgers womens basketball team.     The final score? Decency: 1; Don Imus: 0.     Don Imus has been fired — twice. The women on the team have shown themselves…

  • What caused Princeton to become an island?

    Huge Stony Brook-Millstone drainage area converges here By: Courtney Gross    When Stony Brook and the Millstone River spilled over their banks this week inundating roads throughout the area, it turned Princeton into a virtual island, leaving many drivers stranded on the only remaining access, Washington Road, waiting to get in or out.    The widespread flooding…

  • Raven

    Raven, a very sweet 2-year-old female Lab, is in need of a loving home and available for adoption from SAVE, Princeton’s animal shelter, 900 Herrontown Road, Princeton. For information about adopting "Raven" or another cat or dog, call (609) 921-6122. SAVE: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/NJ143.html

  • Knight senior Leslie jumping to success

    Adds triple jump to repertoire By: Justin Feil    Jerome Leslie likes to stay busy.    It’s why he added football as a junior even though he already had found success in basketball and spring track and field. It’s part of why he added a third jumping event — the triple jump — to his repertoire as…

  • Princeton’s rejected school budget faces next steps

    Borough voters send plan down to defeat for first time since 1991 By: Courtney Gross    The fate of the Princeton Regional School District’s 2007-2008 budget is now in the hands of the Borough Council and Township Committee after a proposed $56.2 million budget tax package was defeated at the polls on Tuesday.    Township voters elected…

  • Tuck moves into spotlight for WW-PS

    Sweeps sprints as Pirates win two By: Justin Feil    Caroline Tuck was content to be in the background for the West Windsor-Plainsboro South girls’ track and field team last year.    She’s finding herself even happier now that she’s out front for the Pirates sprint corps this spring.    "We had more seniors that left so I…