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  • Walking safe, walking healthy

    School, township hope to improve sidewalk conditions By: Purvi Desai    PLUMSTED — Township and school board officials are working together through a federally funded program to construct sidewalks, improve existing ones and continue to promote the benefits of exercise for people living within a two-mile radius of local schools, the mayor said Monday.    On Dec.…

  • Kara plan calls for auction

    Sales of Monroe lots to cancel bank loans By: Stephanie Brown    MONROE — Kara Homes Inc. says it wants to sell one of its Monroe developments and three others in Ocean County to pay off debt to one of its creditors.    The East Brunswick-based developer filed a motion with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Dec. 15…

  • Hillier gets nod for West Windsor’s train station area redevelopment

    Marathon session brings charge of filibustering By: Courtney Gross    WEST WINDSOR — Giving the final nod for Hillier Architecture to proceed with plans for the 350-acre redevelopment area surrounding the Princeton Junction train station, the West Windsor Council approved a 10-month contract with the architectural firm Monday after a lengthy and delayed search process.    But…

  • Incumbents re-elected in Twin Rivers

    By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — Incumbents Becky Anthony, John Pagliarulo and Rob Moore will return to their seats on the board of directors of the Twin Rivers Homeowners Association after easily winning re-election.    They each won three-year terms in balloting concluded Dec. 14 at the association’s annual meeting. Steve Commer finished fourth, followed by…

  • HHS wrestlers second in Pine Barrens tourney

    Virgil, Ratner, Trivisonno and Amponsa win individual titles By: Sean Moylan    The Hightstown School wrestling team was supposed to be intimidated taking on some of the better 16 teams big, bad Burlington County had to offer in the Pine Barrens Tournament at Shawnee this past Saturday.    But instead the Rams put on a show and…

  • Simonson’s Farm has the holiday spirit

    Farm is a tradition for family By: Madeleine Johnson    When Simonson’s Farm opened more than 50 years ago, Ray and Bus Simonson weren’t selling Christmas trees.    "My grandfather and his brother started the farm back in the ’50s," partner and co-owner Rodger Jany said Monday. "The farm itself originated as a potato farm and somewhere…

  • Time for Santa to hear wishes for a New Year

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Dec. 22 By: Packet Editorial    ‘Tis the week before Christmas 2006,    That time, once again, to ask Santa to fix    Us a bountiful sleigh-ful of holiday cheer,    With gifts apropos to this newsworthy year.    Menendez and Lautenberg, down in D.C.,    Need no further gifts ‘neath their holiday tree,    Since last month’s election they…

  • Hospital appoints new VP for development

    By: Courtney Gross    Princeton HealthCare System has announced the addition of a new vice president of development in charge of fundraising, including for the University Medical Center at Princeton’s capital campaign for the hospital’s relocation.    Joseph E. Stampe, most recently the vice president for development at the Foundation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry…

  • Letters to the editor

    No need to change township’s name To the editor:     The recent push to rename Washington Township as "Robbinsville Township" is yet another instance of more smoke than fire in Mayor Dave Fried’s wide-ranging agenda.    Apart from being inaccurate (Robbins Township would be correct and honor the Robbins family, for whom the Robbinsville site is…