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  • State cap law limits districts’ budget options

    PACKET EDITORIAL, March 14 By: Packet Editorial    It’s that time of year again — time to sharpen your pencils, do all the complicated comparative calculations, fill in the blanks, cross your fingers and get ready to join the frenzy known as March Madness.    No, we’re not talking college basketball.    We’re talking school budgets.    While the…

  • Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year

    Hun’s Hilliard improved all-around skill By: Bob Nuse    Idris Hilliard had a very good first season for the Hun School boys’ basketball team when he arrived as a sophomore a year ago.    But he was determined to make his junior year even better.    "I thought I got better this year and improved in a lot…

  • Montgomery officials concerned about police overtime

    $465,000 spent in last year By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Police Department overtime costs became the focus of attention at a Township Committee budget session Thursday.    One of the most striking budget issues of the still preliminary police budget, township officials said, was the amount of overtime pay spent in 2005, which totaled about $465,000…

  • The Libertine

    This film finds Johnny Depp playing John Wilmot as a man living on a knife’s edge between heaven and hell to his last breath. By:Bob Brown    He was a Restoration poet and a courtier, a confidant and gadfly to King Charles II, and a libertine in the original sense of the word. Shamefully debauched in…

  • Letters tp the Editor, March 14

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, March 14 Coordinator needed in case of emergency To the editor:     I am concerned about the issue raised in the recent letter from the Princeton Regional Health Commission regarding the need for a joint emergency management coordinator to be in charge should a community-wide emergency occur, such as avian influenza…

  • ‘Brain Guy’

    Former Roosevelt resident Benjamin Appel lives on in his pulp crime novels, posthumously rereleased. His daughter shares memories of growing up in the Appel household and arts community. By:Susan Van Dongen    When was the last time you sunk your teeth into an old-fashioned crime mystery, one with words like "ginzos," "dames" and "dough," where "flatfoots"…

  • Fortunate Art

    The Arts Council of Princeton’s Small Works show runs at the conTEMPORARY gallery through April 15. By:Ilene Dube    A Barbie head, a blue modal morning and an existential vending machine. Squares. Grids. Patchwork quilts, and the stories of a community. All this and much, much more is in a room about the size of your…

  • Andrew W. Hutnik Sr.

       Andrew W. Hutnik Sr., 83, died March 12 at his home after a long illness.    Born in Guttenberg, he was a 45-year resident of Hopewell Township before moving to Lawrenceville recently.    A veteran of WW II, Mr. Hutnik was a T/Sgt. radio-operator/aerial gunner in the Army Air Corps, serving with the 33rd Bombardment Squadron in…

  • Enduring Vision

    The legacy of Dr. Albert C. Barnes is not only one of the world’s richest art collections, but a special way of viewing it. By:Ilene Dube    It’s an art collector’s dream come true — all those rooms, all those walls, all that space for antique chests, teapots, wrought-iron bric-a-brac. Of course what Albert C. Barnes…