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  • Voters suffer the bitter taste of campaigns

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Nov. 7 By: Packet Editorial    We have no idea at this point who the winners will be when all the votes are counted tonight — but we do know who the losers have been from the very start of this campaign season.    The voters.    Never before have we witnessed the kind of unruly…

  • Princeton Public Library open late tonight to track elections

       Princeton Public Library will stay open late tonight to provide a venue for the community to view the election returns while hearing expert analysis beginning at 9 p.m.    The first-floor Community Room will remain open when the rest of the library closes for the public to watch the results of the midterm elections, which include…

  • Hun football runs MAPL table

    Tomczyk aids Raiders unbeaten run By: Bob Nuse    Dave Dudeck knows how hard it is to win the Mid-Atlantic Prep League championship. He also knows to do so by going undefeated in the league means you have a pretty good football team.    "To go 5-0 in the MAPL and 13-2 over the last three years,…

  • $100,000 award offered for missing township teen

       Philadelphia businessman Joe Mammana is offering $100,000 for information leading to finding Danielle Nottingham, a Princeton Township resident missing since January 2003.    Her name is included in a 20-day campaign to find 20 missing persons throughout the nation, township police said.    According police, Danielle left her home in Princeton at age 15 and has had…

  • Fine art auction to benefit American Red Cross

       The American Red Cross of Central New Jersey is honored to work together with one of the world’s pre-eminent portraitists, Nelson Shanks, to bring a distinctive fundraising event to Princeton.    "Evening with Maestro Nelson Shanks," a live and a silent auction of fine art featuring works of the accomplished artists of Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia,…

  • Renzo Piano architectural firm bows out of university project

    Planning schedule for proposed arts neighborhood near Dinky station not expected to be affected By: Jake Uitti    Renzo Piano Building Workshop, the architectural firm that has been helping the university design an arts neighborhood near the intersection of University Place and Alexander Street, has asked to be allowed to withdraw from the planning stage of…

  • Autism takes backseat for mall employee and his customers

    A dedicated Wendy’s worker is matched by dedicated store employees at Quaker Bridge Mall By: Molly Petrilla    LAWRENCE — When he sees his boss with the phone in her hand, Matthew Spain can’t think about much else.    "Patty’s on the phone. Is it a business call, Jo-Jo?" he asks his older sister and job coach,…

  • Princeton Veterans Day ceremony set Saturday

       The Spirit of Princeton Committee will hold the annual Veterans Day ceremony 11 a.m. Saturday at the site of All Veterans Monument at the corner of Nassau and Mercer streets.    Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Brooks Dyer will be the master of ceremony.    Thomas Hartmann, longtime Princeton resident, Rutgers University professor emeritus and decorated World…

  • PU wins on improv play

    Tigers football top Penn in double overtime By: Justin Feil    Early this season, Roger Hughes promised his Princeton University football team would improvise more this season.    Certainly, he imagined most of those plays coming from crafty senior quarterback Jeff Terrell and players such as back-up quarterback and occasional wide receiver Bill Foran, a jitterbug with…