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Township offer: $1.66 million for one level of garage for library parking
Documents show effort by borough and township officials to deal with fallout from breaking free parking agreement By: Courtney Gross Eighteen months before announcing that it could no longer afford $70,000 a year to subsidize free parking for library patrons, Princeton Township officials proposed spending $1.66 million to purchase one level of the Spring Street…
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‘Truthiness’
Merle Citron blends outrage and inner peace in an exhibit with Stacie Speer Scott in Lambertville. By: Susan Van Dongen The rock group The Pretenders had a great song in the ’80s called "My City Was Gone." Lead singer/songwriter Chrissie Hynde wrote about returning to her hometown in Ohio and finding that everything had been…
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Monroe remembers a community pioneer
World War II vet George Allen was councilman, farmer, firefighter. By: Lacey Korevec MONROE From storming the beaches of Normandy in 1944 to gardening, hunting and running a tree farm in Monroe, George Allen had a lot of stories to tell. "Everybody liked him," said Monroe resident Tom Allen, Mr. Allen’s son. "He was…
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Cranbury officer saves two from car fire in East Windsor
Off-duty patrolman was on way to work when he saw a car and truck collide on Route 130. By: Lacey Korevec Smoke was all Bordentown resident and Cranbury Patrol Officer Guiseppe DeChiara saw as he looked out into the distance. He had just pulled one injured man out of an overturned car and knew there…
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Family life with teens: Navigating uncharted waters
Examining adolescence at the interface of multiple contextsFirst in a series By: Norbert A. Wetzel John, a freshman with a worn-down demeanor, strolls into the therapist’s office last in line after his parents and siblings. Months of John’s cutting classes prompted the guidance counselor at his suburban high school to refer him for counseling.…
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Off-duty patrolman pulls dad and infant from burning car
By: Lacey Korevec Smoke was all Bordentown resident and Cranbury Patrolman Guiseppe DeChiara saw as he looked out into the distance along Route 130. He had just pulled one injured man out of an overturned car and soon found out there was another wrecked vehicle up ahead. Without thinking twice, he put the man down…
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Rutgers freshman has big ideas for teen center proponents
By: Dick Brinster With suggestions from young people a major thrust of a proposal to establish a teen center in the East Windsor-Hightstown area, the school assignment of a Rutgers University freshman is getting a hard look from the man spearheading the local project. Still, the business writing class plan of former Hightstown High School…
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School’s nickels and dimes add up for Leukemia Society
By:Donna Lukiw Photo courtesy of Susan Yurcisn Sunnymead School Principal Tammy Jenkins models a T-shirt printed by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, featuring a design by Hillsborough first-grader Annie Ryan, after a visit by LLS representatives noting the school’s efforts to raise money for Annie. By slipping pennies and coins into a bucket, the Sunnymead…
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Robbers hit Dayton bank
Three men hit bank during afternoon robbery. Three men robbed the Bank of America in the Summerfield shopping center on Summerfield Boulevard on Friday. Police said the men entered the bank at 2:45 p.m. and demanded money. Two of the men vaulted the counter, while a third fired a handgun into a glass partition causing…
