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  • Slattery, MHS back to defend

    Cougar girls’ soccer dominates first two games By: Justin Feil    Allison Slattery knew it would be different this season. She was a starting midfielder throughout last season when the Montgomery High School girls’ soccer team shared the Group III state championship.    The Cougars were looking to fill in the holes left by graduation, particularly in…

  • Quark Park makes its debut

    Gala opening showcases the merger of art and science By: Hilary Parker    Art and science merged Friday night in "One Enchanted Evening at Quark Park."    There, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Director Robert Goldston discussed the aesthetics of a giant, pink Styrofoam plasma — part of the "Stellarator" installation inspired by the fusion energy experiments at…

  • OBITUARIES, Sept. 12, 2006

    Marshall Sittig, Sue W. Rightmire, Paul L. Margolis, Edward Stiefel, James T. Shorten, Ernest Svendsen, Concetta M. Prespe, Donald G. Dickason Marshall Sittig Chemist, PU administrator     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Marshall Sittig died Sunday. He was 87.    Mr. Sittig was a Princeton resident from 1951 to 1991, when he moved to Virginia.    A chemist and…

  • Fall forecast: cool weather, political strife

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Sept. 12 By: Packet Editorial    Sleeping with the air conditioning off and the windows open isn’t the only sure sign that fall has arrived in the Princeton area.    There are real signs of life on the shady side of Nassau Street. Freshmen arrived last week, classes start this week, the fall sports season…

  • Pisani scores four in promising opener

    WW-P North field hockey picks up where it left off By: Justin Feil    Shannon Maruca was pretty confident that her West Windsor-Plainsboro North offense would be tough to stop this year.    "There are four returning varsity players who have been playing together for a few years," said the Knights head coach. "They’ve been clicking. They…

  • Draft ordinances could affect Wawa plan in Montgomery

    Township moves to adopt wellhead protection measure, limits on size of buildings By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — In a move that would have an impact on the controversial application by Wawa to build a convenience store and 12-bay gas station on Route 518 near the Rocky Hill border, the township is moving forward to adopt…

  • Madrid-based architect named by Princeton University for new building

    By: Hilary Parker    Madrid-based José Rafael Moneo Arquitecto will design the new neuroscience and psychology buildings on the Princeton University campus.    The firm is headed by architect José Rafael Moneo, a visiting professor at the university in 1982.    The buildings will comprise part of the natural sciences neighborhood the university will create south of Ivy…

  • Letters to the Editor, Sept. 12

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Sept. 12 How will borough fund pension costs? To the editor:     The following is an open letter to the mayor, members of the Borough Council and the administrator of Princeton Borough:     The following letter is based on the information you kindly provided upon my request:    Our borough recently hired…

  • Late Princeton University employee Howard Strauss cited for leadership

       A former employee in Princeton University’s Office of Information Technology, Howard Strauss, has posthumously received an Educause Leadership Award for Distinguished Performance and Outstanding Service.    A nonprofit association with the motto, "Transforming Education Through Information Technologies," Educause has a membership of over 15,000 individuals from over 2,000 colleges, universities and educational organizations. The leadership award…