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  • Scholarship student enters guilty plea; also staged robbery

    By: Dick Brinster    A college scholarship student from East Windsor charged with trying to take a township police officer’s gun in June is facing seven years in prison after pleading guilty to that offense and theft in connection with a faked gas station robbery last year.    Christopher D. DeLaHoz, 19, of Avon Drive, who entered…

  • Students with a (business) plan

    Budding entrepreneurs are given a leg up at Princeton University program By: Hilary Parker    Business plans are now complete in Princeton for a children’s bookstore with an apple-shaped reading nook, an organic bakery and a video game store where customers can test out new releases, but the establishments won’t be coming to town any time…

  • SB knew how to capitalize on breaks

    By: Rich Fisher    EWING — As South Brunswick made it’s run to the Final Three of the New Jersey American Legion State Tournament, one thing became apparent.    Post 401 got some luck with gratuitous errors. It also provided its opponents with some luck by making its own key errors.    But the best teams are the…

  • Malcolm Kirkpatrick, 1919-2006

    He made, then preserved, Jamesburg’s history By: Stephanie Brown    JAMESBURG — "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away," said Marcia Kirkpatrick, as she sat at the kitchen table of her Rossmoor home Wednesday surrounded by photographs of her late husband, Malcolm.    After many years of military and public service, including a nine-year stint as…

  • Commerce Bank eyes local branch

    Perrineville Road could be new home of bank By: Stephanie Brown    JAMESBURG — Another bank could be moving into town.    Commerce Bank of Mount Laurel has proposed building a 4,101-square-foot branch on a 1.39-acre site on Perrineville Road, between Forsgate Drive and Elliot Place.    Plans call for four houses and a 10-foot wide township-owned gravel…

  • Allocated funds tie the hands of state leaders

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Aug. 4    Back in the days before New Jersey had a state lottery, an income tax and casino gambling, no self-respecting legislator would be caught dead proposing that revenues the state collected from any particular source be dedicated to a specific purpose.    Why, after all, would anyone who has the power of the…

  • Thelma Hill

       Thelma C. Hill, 71, of Monroe, died Monday, July 31, at the Elms of Cranbury.    Born in Orange, she lived in Livingston for most of her life, until moving to Monroe in 2003. She worked as a receptionist for Paul Arnold Associates of Livingston.    She is survived by a brother, Jack Neilsen; two daughters and…

  • Getting a taste of college

    Governor’s School prepares students for future By: Denise Xu    Schoolwork during the summer? Shouldn’t that be banned?    Hardly, says Ram Yamarthy, 17, who recently returned home from a four-week stay at the Governor’s School of Engineering and Technology at Rutgers University.    Ram, who will be a senior at Princeton High School, was one of two…

  • Princeton emergency management group meets to tackle the hard issues

    Preparing for bioterrorism, a flu pandemic and other disasters By: Kara Fitzpatrick    When members of the Princeton Borough Emergency Management Council gather, the topics up for discussion aren’t exactly cheery. The 19-member group is charged with preparing strategies to handle a local disaster, such as bioterrorism or a pandemic flu outbreak.    The group is a…