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Borough modifies parking ban plan
Council expected to ban street parking on section of Rogers Avenue on weekdays By: Vic Monaco HIGHTSTOWN The Borough Council is expected to take action later this month to ban street parking on a section of Rogers Avenue on weekdays. Councilman Larry Quattrone introduced an amended ordinance Monday after hearing some public criticism last…
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Tiger women to play for NCAA trip
Celebration delayed after PU ties for Ivy League By: Justin Feil The champagne is still on ice for the Princeton University women’s basketball team. Though the Tigers own another Ivy League championship their first since 1999 there was only a subdued celebration after their 67-55 win over the University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday.…
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West tells inmates to be themselves
Princeton professor speaks at youth training school By: Leon Tovey MONROE The distance between the New Jersey Training School for Boys and Princeton University is much greater than the 17 miles that physically separate the two institutions, but Princeton professor Cornel West had no trouble covering that distance. Dr. West, Princeton’s Class of 1943…
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Trivisonno, Calamari both have next year
By: Kyle Moylan Unlike their teammate Dan Indellicati, Tim Trivisonno and Ricardo Calamari did not qualify for the state finals this weekend in Atlantic City. Also unlike Indellicati, Trivisonno and Calamari will both have another try. "I felt bad for them, but the good thing is they are both juniors," Hightstown Coach Mike Russo said.…
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DEP orders cleanup tainted fill
Contaminated concrete used at medical building By: Stephanie Brown MONROE A medical office complex under construction on Applegarth Road is one of seven sites determined by the state Department of Environmental Protection to have used contaminated concrete as fill. The DEP on Wednesday ordered Ford Motor Co., which supplied the fill, to remove the…
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Obituaries for the week of March 10
Margaret V. Olsen, Alfred Yeske, Eva Kohler, Margaret Rendino Margaret V. Olsen EAST WINDSOR Margaret V. Olsen, 86, of East Windsor died Monday at her home. Born in Jersey City, she was a resident of Twin Rivers the past 30 years. In 1983, she retired from Nynex of New York City as a manager…
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‘Grueling’ budget year takes toll on Princeton schools
Ten full-time positions to be eliminated in tentative $71.9 million spending plan By: David Campbell The Princeton Regional Board of Education on Tuesday night introduced a tentative $71.92 million school budget for 2006-2007, in a budget year that Superintendent Judith A. Wilson called "more grueling than usual." The tentative budget, which now must get county…
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Junior League choses Hodge Road showhouse
The Junior League of Greater Princeton (JLGP) has chosen the house at 50 Hodge Road in Princeton as the location for its Designer Showhouse & Gardens XIV. Open April 23 through May 21, the Showhouse a springtime tradition will feature the work of approximately 38 interior designers and landscape architects from New York,…
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Senior Center offers help filing taxes
TCE program to help seniors with income taxes. By: Stephanie Brown MONROE The smell of coffee was in the air and the sound of papers shuffling and calculators clicking echoed through the walls at the Monroe Township Senior Center on Tuesday morning. ‘Twas the ongoing season for taxes. While the deadline to file is…
