Category: archives
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Road work must wait for archeological dig
Mill Street residents won’t have work start on the flood-prone road until workers can find out if there are any Native American artifacts buried there. By: Linda Seida STOCKTON Mill Street residents have waited years for the borough to come up with the money to fix the road’s drainage problems. Now that the money…
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Sotto
This subterranean spot (formerly the Annex) has been reborn, offering Italian classics and creative specials. By: Faith Bahadurian My parents were devoted to the Annex restaurant since it opened in 1948. One night there, much to my shock, my reserved mother sang Italian songs with the old "Italian boys" at the next table from her…
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Teach for America’s legacy lives on at Princeton University
Developed from a 1989 senior thesis, graduates sign up for a program that places 2,400 teachers in disadvantaged school districts By: Hilary Parker Amid the thousands of senior theses stored in Princeton University’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is a copy of a 177-page document titled "An Argument and Plan for the Creation of the…
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Letters to the Editor, June 27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, June 27 Set record straight on library funding To the editor: In his letter to the editor (The Packet, June 20), Thomas H. Pyle makes incorrect and defamatory allegations concerning the funding of our Princeton Public Library and my role in Township Committee consideration of the library budget. At the…
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World congress to hear from a pair of local reading teachers
Montgomery and West Windsor-Plainsboro teachers to present workshop in Budapest, Hungary By: Jake Uitti MONTGOMERY Russ Walsh, director of language arts in the Montgomery Township School District, and Cynthia Mershon, language-arts enrichment teacher in the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District, have been invited to speak about critical thinking in reading and writing this August…
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Music under the stars slated at 1860 House in Montgomery
Always looking for new ways to entertain its audience, on Saturday, July 15, from 7 to 10:30 p.m., the Montgomery Center for the Arts 1860 House Music Café will move its performance outdoors. The public is invited to bring picnic food and munchies, as well as chairs or a blanket, and enjoy beautiful music under…
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She finds where the (financial) bodies are buried
CONFERENCE CALL Lauren Otis At CPA firm WithumSmith&Brown’s West Windsor office, Linda J. Schaeffer serves as "director of marital dissolution consulting services." Ms. Schaeffer’s specialty is "forensic" accounting. If these job descriptions sound ominous, it is because they are. Ms. Schaeffer’s is not a romantic occupation. Since 1983, when marriages fall apart she has been…
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Forrestal Village owners hope for a Phoenix-like rejuvenation
The third time may be the charm as shopping center remakes itself once again By: Courtney Gross PLAINSBORO Posters decorate the empty glass windows of Plainsboro’s Forrestal Village, touting the creation of a new image, more elaborate and elegant and possibly more expensive than ever before. "Reinventing Main Street, one gilt edged…
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OBITUARIES, June 27, 2006
Robert G. Donald, Carol H. Christie, Helen Maurer, Marjorie B. Cornacchio, Rose A. Trasak Robert G. Donald Lifelong Princeton resident Robert G. Donald of Princeton died Thursday at Merwick Rehab Hospital & Nursing Care. He was 86. Born in Princeton, he was a lifelong Princeton resident. He taught industrial arts for 35 years at…
