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  • Bridge Street improvements to begin

    A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday to kick off the $2 million project.    STOCKTON — Members of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission joined Stockton Borough officials Monday to break ground on the borough’s Bridge Street area improvement project.    The project is the first to break ground under the commission’s Compact Authorized Investment program,…

  • ‘Godspell’

    Paper Mill Playhouse stages John-Michael Tebelak and Stephen Schwartz’s musical. By: Stuart Duncan    I suppose it was inevitable that Paper Mill would overdo a show as deceptively simple as Godspell. A plain, fenced-in yard with only a pair of sawhorses and a few boards has been turned into a set of giant scaffolding, reaching all…

  • ‘Army of Shadows’

    This 1969 film is as much about the futility of war as it is about the modest triumphs of the heroes of the French Resistance. By: Josh Appelbaum    Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-1973) had to wait 25 years to bring Joseph Kessel’s 1943 novel on the French Resistance, Army of Shadows (L’Armée des ombres), to the screen.…

  • ‘All the King’s Men’

    The film is not so much a cautionary political fable as it is a recovery story. By: Elise Nakhnikian    Political consultant and former Clinton campaign "war room" general James Carville was one of the executive producers of All the King’s Men, and it’s easy to imagine why. Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was the…

  • John Witherspoon’s Tusculum farmland to be preserved

    Thirty-five acres to be acquired and another 23 acres to be protected by easements in $2.9 million agreement By: Hilary Parker    The Friends of Princeton Open Space, Princeton Township, Mercer County and the state of New Jersey are slated to acquire joint title next week to 35 acres of the 58-acre Tusculum farm property —…

  • Montgomery seeking to tighten ‘pay-to-play’ law

    Coming development of Skillman Village prompts action By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — The Township Committee on Thursday introduced amendments to its "pay-to-play" ordinance that would broaden campaign contribution limits to include redevelopers and any professionals or subcontractors working for the redevelopers.    The action, suggested over the summer by Deputy Mayor Cecilia Birge, is related to…

  • ‘Green Campus’

    The Lawrenceville School is creating a model of institutional ‘sustainability’ By: Pat Tanner    When my husband and I enrolled our older daughter in The Lawrenceville School back in 1994, this prestigious independent school had many things to recommend it. The food in the dining hall was not among them. Meals, served three times a day…

  • At 93, proud former chief forges link to Princeton’s police past

    Thirty-eight-year veteran Peter McCrohan recalls the days before department owned a patrol car By: Hilary Parker    Times have changed since Peter McCrohan first joined the Princeton Borough Police Department back in 1935.    Those were the days before the department owned its first patrol car, when officers’ salaries hovered just over $1,000 a year and a…

  • Teen arrests in Princeton bring call for talks

    Human Service Commission seeks to meet with police, school officials By: Courtney Gross    In response to civil rights complaints made by the parents of four Princeton High School students charged with complicity to robbery last week, the joint Princeton Human Service Commission is attempting to set up a meeting between the Princeton Borough Police Department…