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  • Terebey gets Pirates started

    Improved junior guard helps South to victory By: Justin Feil    Amanda Terebey came into the season determined to play at a higher level than last year.    By the second quarter of the season opener against Ewing on Friday, foul trouble cost the West Windsor-Plainsboro South junior that chance and had her antsy to prove herself.…

  • Legislators earn credit for taking action

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Dec. 19 By: Packet Editorial    New Jersey residents and taxpayers have had good reason to be critical of their state legislators lately.    After promising to tackle the Garden State’s most pressing problems head-on in 2006, lawmakers have steadily retreated from the ambitious agenda they laid out for themselves at the start of the…

  • OBITUARIES, Dec. 19, 2006

    Josephine Moretti, Gloria Trumbo, Jean M. Ellison, Eleanor Hancock Josephine Moretti Admissions office worker     Josephine "Dolly" Moretti of Princeton died Thursday. She was 80.    Born in Staten Island, N.Y., she was a resident of Bridgewater before moving to Princeton 22 years ago.    She worked in the admissions office of Wagner College in New York…

  • South Brunswick senior facility expands services to Princeton

    Buckingham Place offers transportation, Meals on Wheels programs By: Courtney Gross    Having typically taken care of seniors within its South Brunswick facility, Buckingham Place Assisted Living and Adult Day Center is now extending some of its services into Princeton.    From transporting Elm Court residents to doctors’ appointments and the Princeton Shopping Center to preparing meals…

  • Fight looms on state plan to allow big trucks on Route 206, 27

    Task force forms to seek exemption By: Courtney Gross    If the state Department of Transportation has its way, both Route 206 and Route 27 could be access roads for double-trailer trucks as well as vehicles 102 inches wide.    To Princeton officials, the addition of such vehicles not only would bring additional safety hazards, but also…

  • Bank on this student

    Montgomery resident helps capture Federal Reserve honor By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — The Federal Reserve Bank and Montgomery Township have something in common, and now Fred Herrmann can say he, too, is in on the pairing.    Mr. Herrmann, a resident of Montgomery who is in his senior year at Northwestern University as a civil engineering…

  • Four Princeton University seniors awarded Marshall Scholarships

       Princeton seniors Tamara Broderick, Neir Eshel, Tianhui Li and P.G. Sittenfeld have been awarded 2007 Marshall Scholarships for graduate study in England.    They are among 43 students from U.S. colleges and universities to win the prestigious awards, which cover the cost of living and studying at a British university of the recipient’s choice for two…

  • Rojas, North still climbing to top

    Knight boys swim to 3-0 start By: Justin Feil    Mat Rojas has seen a steady climb in his own swimming and that of the West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ team.    Now a senior, he is a bit of a rarity on a team that has a vastly different make-up than it did three years ago when…

  • Fighting ignorance

    SPECIAL REPORT The fight against HIV/AIDS — 25 years later By: Kristin Boyd The Name Keeper: Maria Betters, The NAMES Project, Central New Jersey Chapter, North Brunswick    Maria Betters sat in small New Brunswick restaurant, her eyes welling with tears as she talked about the Central Jersey AIDS Memorial Quilt. The panels, she said, are…