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  • Speaker details Japan’s pharma industry woes

    Head of Japanese research institute addresses university-sponsored forum By: Lauren Otis    Those who are worried about the state of the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. can take heart that they are not in Japan, based on a picture of that country’s pharmaceutical sector painted by a Japanese executive.    In understated fashion, Dr. Hiro Horikoshi, president…

  • Amberson fits in as new MHS coach

    Brings personal experiences to girls’ golf team By: Justin Feil    When Montgomery High School started up its girls’ golf program three years ago, it immediately had the interest of Jennifer Amberson.    Amberson had been around the game since she started playing as a 7-year-old in Florida. She went on to play in high school before…

  • Philippines aid event planned

    By: Courtney Gross    A Princeton woman has organized a fundraiser to aid those suffering through the aftermath of three typhoons in the Philippines in December.    The event, from 4 to 11:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Suzanne Patterson Center behind Princeton Borough Hall, will be a celebration of the arts, said organizer Grace Asagra Stanley. It…

  • Economist optimistic on Mercer County

    A good possibility region will outpace the nation in job and population growth, Wilmington Trust official says By: Lauren Otis    Economic growth appears to be poised for a cooling-off period nationally, but there is a good possibility that Mercer County will outpace the nation in job and population growth, a senior economist at Wilmington Trust…

  • Quality schools are a benefit to all citizens

    PACKET EDITORIAL, April 3    Who should pay for public education — and how much — is an issue that policymakers have wrestled with since the earliest days of the republic.    From the moment the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, the American colonies — and later the fledgling United States — embraced the principle of universal…

  • Knit 1, Purl 2: Now I’m down to mittens

    A dispatch from the knitting front By: Kristin Boyd    Per Oprah’s recommendation — via her television show, of course — I wrote out all of the goals that I would like to accomplish in my life.    The list, written in jumbo handwriting on notebook paper, has traveled with me from one apartment to another since…

  • They found space for this old house …

    … with this old barn By: Jessica Demetriou With the help of a barn preservation company, a Princeton couple are combining two seemingly contradictory goals, adding living space on the property of their very old stone house while preserving the site’s historic integrity.    Mark and Brown Little of Winant Road sought the assistance of the…

  • MILESTONES

    Issue of April 3, 2007 LAW    Princeton attorney Hanan M. Isaacs will be recognized as one of New Jersey’s 25 "Legends of Alternative Dispute Resolution" as part of ADR Day Thursday, April 12.    Mr. Isaacs, an accredited professional mediator and noted trial lawyer in divorce, employment, civil and criminal matters, has been a national pioneer…

  • Don’t let insurance lag as your home appreciates

    IT’S YOUR BUSINESS Aaron Skloff    Q: We live in West Windsor. In the last five years the value of our home has increased dramatically, our real estate taxes have done the same, but our homeowners insurance has not. Are we getting a great deal or are we missing something?     The problem: Homeowners’ insurance gap.…