Category: archives
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Shore Coaches gives area promising look ahead
Kellner second, Leung third in B Division By: Justin Feil The Shores Coaches Invitational is a first chance for many teams to see how they will stack up against the state at famed Holmdel Park. Packet-area teams are encouraged by the results they saw Saturday. In addition to the West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys’ team winning…
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Princeton Public Library book sale set for Oct. 20-22
The Friends of the Princeton Public Library Annual Book Sale, which will take place Oct. 20 through 22, will feature a large variety of like-new DVDs, including classic Hollywood movies, newer movies and TV series. An added attraction is a rich selection of books on mysticism and Tibetan, Buddhist and Hindu religions. According to Stuart…
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Big Hillsborough housing project has impact in Montgomery
Committee in quandary over improvements to Pleasant View Road By: Jake Uitti MONTGOMERY Beazer Homes Developers, a real estate development company, has broken ground on a roughly 200-unit housing development on Pleasant View Road in Hillsborough Township right across the border from Montgomery. The development is adjacent to an area in Montgomery that township…
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Israeli basketball tour to make stop in Princeton
Visit brings Brody close to home By: Bob Nuse Tal Brody was a basketball legend in Trenton. Tal Brody is a basketball legend in Israel. Brody, who was part of the 1960-61 Trenton Central High basketball team that captured a state championship, had an outstanding career at TCH and then at the University of Illinois.…
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Route 92 report has put to rest road’s future
PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 10 By: Packet Editorial For the past 50 years or so, official road maps of central New Jersey have featured a prominent dotted line, running east-west from Monroe Township to South Brunswick, designating a proposed highway that would link the New Jersey Turnpike with Route 1. Some older versions have the roadway…
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Library ‘Read to Vote’ effort targets young people
They may not be able to cast ballots, but they can still be well informed By: Courtney Gross For the Princeton Public Library, every vote counts. Even if you’re not legally eligible to participate politically just yet, librarians said it is never too early to get children and adolescents interested in civic engagement. And in…
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Letters to the Editor, Oct. 10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Oct. 10 Radical leadership destroying Democrats To the editor: After weeks of listening to the far-left Democrats bleating that President Bush has neglected our security and that we are not safe enough, it is time to take a realistic view. We are faced with a murderous enemy who will do…
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Princeton Public Library slates program on writing college-admission essays
By: Courtney The Princeton Public Library will host an event at 7 p.m. Wednesday with representatives from Princeton University and Rutgers Preparatory Academy to give advice to students beginning the college admissions process. The event with Jill Lauck, an associate director of admissions at Princeton University, and Shelley Krause, co-director of college counseling at…
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Montgomery Boy Scout Troop 850 joins the Army
"They put a chain across the Hudson River?" "Yep, they thought they could trap the British warships, and then bombard them with cannons from the cliffs here at West Point." "Did it work?" "They never got a chance to find out, because the British never sailed this far up the river," explained Cadet Private James…
