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  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

    From the issue of March 9, 2006. March of Dimes event helps premature babies To the editor:    The March of Dimes is in a 5-year campaign to find the reasons behind premature births, which have been rising.    With all the medical breakthroughs we have been discovering, this rate should be going down not up.    But…

  • Property Transfers — March8, 2006 — Part 5

    The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to…

  • YMCA seeking Olympic-size pool

    Y leaders are looking to the community for support of their effort to get county help to pay for the $3 million project. By: Joseph Harvie    The South Brunswick Family YMCA is looking to add an Olympic-size, indoor swimming pool and is asking the township for help to get the county involved.    Tom Libassi, executive…

  • This Week

    Thursday    Indie flick: Join fellow film-goers at the Lawrence Library Headquarters Branch of the Mercer County Library System for the Independent Films @ Your Library series at 7 p.m.    It’s the hottest day of the year in Oslo, Sweden and the paths of a handful of strangers are going to intersect in "Hawaii, OSLO," winner…

  • Giordano withdraws from school board race

    No contests now for April 18 election By Ruth Luse    On April 18, there will be no contested school board races in Hopewell Valley.    Four Valley residents — three from Hopewell Township and one from Pennington Borough — are running for four open seats on the nine-member Hopewell Valley Regional Board of Education.    After the…

  • John Conway Sr.

       HILLSBOROUGH — John P. Conway Sr. died Feb. 24 at Princeton Medical Center in Princeton.    Mr. Conway worked for the Lehigh Navigation and Coal Company in Nesquehoning, Pa., when he was young. After moving to Hillsborough in 1955, he worked as a boiler fireman in the powerhouse for Johns-Manville Corporation until his retirement.    He served…

  • Old look for new wheels

    South Brunswick returning to traditional-style patrol cars By: Joseph Harvie    With a look from the past and the technology of the 21st century, the township’s police cruisers are getting a makeover, one by one.    After a request from the patrol officers and Police Benevolent Association Local 166 and the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 51,…

  • Pennington officials honor Jim Loper

    Loper was mayor for five years and a councilman for five years before that By John Tredrea    Jim Loper, who resigned as Pennington Borough’s mayor when he moved out of town last month, returned to Borough Hall Monday night to witness the inauguration of his successor, James Benton.    While there, Mr. Loper was thanked by…

  • Cafe Night set to benefit band

    Florence jazz band plans annual fundraiser By: William Wichert    The high school is expected to move into its new building off Cedar Lane in September, and the students are trying to raise funds for a new piano to grace the band room.    "Our hearts are set on a new Steinway baby grand," said Adrienne Mazar,…