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  • Businesses see no strain from new civil union law

    Only routine changes needed to benefits programs and human resources procedures By: Lauren Otis    Businesses in the Princeton area say they do not foresee more than routine changes to their benefits programs and human resources procedures to accommodate New Jersey’s new civil union law.    Many area employers already offer domestic partner benefits, and say their…

  • A life that melds art, perseverance

    WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH PROFILE Cecelia B. Hodges By: Kristin Boyd    Creative expression is as much a part of Cecelia B. Hodges’ genetic makeup as her petite frame and full lips.    It first emerged in childhood, when education and advanced reading skills were valued like good china in her Harlem, N.Y., household. In high school, Shakespeare…

  • Princeton SCORE to expand free business counseling

    Organization to now aid existing businesses By: Lauren Otis    Free advice has a bad reputation but area businesses might want to reconsider this notion in light of a high caliber new counseling program which is now available to them at no charge.    Princeton SCORE, the organization which offers free business coaching and advice to individuals…

  • Princeton Recreation Department to hold public workshop

    By: Courtney Gross    The Princeton Recreation Department will host a public workshop 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday to gauge if residents are satisfied with its recreation program and what they would like to see in the future.    Kentucky-based consulting firm Brandstetter Carroll Inc., which has been charged with drafting an update to the department’s master…

  • Women entrepreneurs share triumphs with aspirants

    Tales of inspiration at Princeton event By: Lauren Otis    Women and girls who aspire to found a business of their own someday were treated to a good dose of inspiration last week, not to mention practical advice, at a full-morning series of presentations by women entrepreneurs of all stripes.    "As long as you are more…

  • PU men secure hockey series

    ECAC win is first since 1999 By: Bob Nuse    With as far as he has seen the program come in his four years at Princeton University, Grant Goeckner-Zoeller couldn’t skate off the Baker Rink ice for the final time with a loss.    Instead, Goeckner-Zoeller’s goal just over seven minutes into the third period proved to…

  • Allow garages to re-inspect minor repairs

    PACKET EDITORIAL, March 6    Anyone who has ever suffered through one of those interminable lines at a motor-vehicle inspection station (and who among us hasn’t?) might greet with unbridled enthusiasm the latest user-friendly initiative launched by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.    The MVC (which used to be known as the Division of Motor Vehicles…

  • The Bard gets a good spot for summer performance in Princeton

    Alas, poor film festival, we knew ye well By: Courtney Gross    If the Princeton Recreation Department’s summer schedule for the Pettoranello Gardens amphitheater is to be, or not to be, well, that really is the question.    The Recreation Department has offered the Princeton Rep Company’s Shakespeare Festival enough time to put on two productions this…

  • Can new talks bypass the kink in Route 206 plan?

    Montgomery officials optimistic their alternate proposal for new roadway will get serious consideration By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — The state is moving to resolve more than two decades of conflict with Montgomery and Hillsborough over the proposed design of the Route 206 bypass.    Representatives from the two townships and Somerset County were scheduled to meet…