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  • Letters to the Editor, Dec. 19

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Dec. 19 Shame on PU for evading obligation To the editor:     Princeton University successfully evaded all but one-third of its fair-share housing obligation by crying poor to the state agency charged with enforcement of the Fair Housing Act and the Mount Laurel decision requiring municipalities to provide its fair share…

  • Ways of Conway lift PU

    Senior’s return boosts Tiger men By: Bob Nuse    Take a quick look at the shooting column of the box score and you wouldn’t think much of Justin Conway’s performance on Saturday.    The Princeton University senior made just three of his 10 shots in the Tigers’ 61-45 win over Marshall. But look a little deeper, and…

  • An Italian Christmas in Trenton

    The Feast of the Seven Fishes, an Italian Christmas Eve tradition, dates back to the Middle Ages By: Faith Bahadurian    It has become one of the top dining events of the season. So if you missed the Festa dei Sette Pesci (Feast of the Seven Fishes) dinner at the Baldassari Regency in Trenton earlier this…

  • Pirate boys earn opening-night win

    New contributor aids WW-P South By: Bob Nuse    Bob Schurtz had enough key players returning that he felt his West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys’ basketball team would be better this season.    Turns out the Pirates may be even better than Schurtz thought, as he got a great effort out of a newcomer that could help South…

  • Corell makes move to high school hockey

    Freshman goaltender part of girls’ 3-0 start By: Justin Feil    Chelsea Corell is a freshman, but she has been going to Princeton High School ice hockey games as long as any Little Tigers player.    Her father, Bob, is an assistant with both the boys’ and girls’ teams at PHS. Years ago, he was the head…

  • 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…