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  • Candidates Forum, March 28

    CANDIDATES FORUM, March 28 Christine Ross Montgomery Board of Education     I am running for the Montgomery Township Board of Education and am asking friends and neighbors for your support.    I moved to Montgomery Township two years ago based on the excellent reputation of our school district. I am incredibly pleased with the quality of…

  • Montgomery concert to support rights of students with disabilities

       A benefit recital and concert dedicated to the efforts to uphold maximal rights for students with disabilities will take place Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Montgomery Center for the Arts, located at 124 Montgomery Road.    Among the featured performers will be several musicians who, while challenged by a disability, are ably pursuing their musical…

  • Three Montgomery school board candidates form partnership

    With withdrawl of William Hyncik, field of candidates reduced to six By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — As the township’s Board of Education election campaign begins to heat up, three candidates have formed a partnership to share ideas and support one another’s candidacy, and another has withdrawn — reducing the field of candidates for three three-year…

  • Web inventor to give talk at university on its future

    By: David Campbell    Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the Web, will give a talk Wednesday, April 5, at Princeton University on the history of the Web. The lecture is scheduled to begin 8 p.m. in McCosh Hall 50 on the university campus.    His talk, "The Future of the…

  • OBITUARIES, March 28, 2006

    Robert H. Silvester Robert H. Silvester Retired from plasma physics lab     WHITING — Robert Hendrickson Silvester died March 20 after a lengthy illness in Atlanta. He was 84.    Born in Princeton, Mr. Silvester was a Princeton resident until 1964 when he moved to West Windsor. In 1985, he retired to Whiting for the winters…

  • Hip-hop experts slate Princeton University forum Thursday

    By: David Campbell    Author and hip-hop activist Bakari Kitwana will bring "Rap Sessions," a national tour that explores race and hip-hop, to the Princeton University campus Thursday evening.    The event is scheduled for 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Frist Campus Center on the university campus.    "Rap Sessions" presents a multiracial panel of hip-hop experts…

  • Rocky Hill housing plan hearings resume Thursday

    Schafer Tract plan includes 34 age-restricted units By: Jake Uitti    ROCKY HILL — The borough’s Planning Board will continue its hearings on the controversial Schafer Tract application 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the First Reformed Church.    The application calls for constructing 34 age-restricted, single-family homes in 17 duplex-style buildings on a 16-acre tract off Princeton Avenue…

  • Two donors boost battle monument lighting effort

    Fundraiser is only $25,000 short of $125,000 goal By: Marjorie Censer    The Princeton Parks Alliance is one step closer to collecting the $125,000 needed to fund the Princeton Battle Monument’s illumination after receiving $20,000 collected by longtime residents and Princeton University classmates Herb Hobler and Art Morgan.    Mr. Hobler, a founder of the Spirit of…

  • Elizabeth Badman Campbell

       Elizabeth Badman Campbell, 75, of Ewing died Sunday at home following a long illness.    She had been a resident of the Ewing and Hopewell Township area since 1974.    Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and reared in Plymouth, Pa., she was a graduate of Ward Davenport High School in Plymouth, Pa., and was valedictorian of her class…