Category: archives

  • Tennis tournament to aid breast cancer center

       The 2006 Tennis Tournament to benefit the Breast Health Center at Princeton HealthCare System will be held on Monday, May 15. The tournament will raise funds to purchase an advanced digital mammography system that will support the high-quality, prompt diagnosis the Center will provide when it opens later this year in West Windsor.    The Tournament…

  • Montgomery school board unveils tentative $69.4 million budget

    Tax rate estimated to increase 6 percent By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — A tentative budget of approximately $69.4 million was unanimously approved by the Board of Education on Tuesday, only a week after the board received this year’s budget guidelines from the state.    The budget is about $1.6 million more than the current year’s budget,…

  • Letters to the Editor, March 3

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, March 3 Critic of process grinds partisan ax To the editor:     Colin Vonvorys’ letter to the editor (The Packet, Feb. 28) questions whether the Princeton Township Democratic Committee, which I chair, truly has an "open process" for finding candidates to replace Bill Hearon, who is retiring from Township Committee about…

  • Gloria Nilson GMAC celebrates anniversary

    Premier Service is one of the many qualities that have set the office apart as it has established itself over the last 12 months    It has been a successful first year for the Monroe office of Gloria Nilson GMAC Real Estate, located in the Concordia Shopping Center.    After opening with just five sales associates, the…

  • Princeton University alumnae track the strains of profession and family

    Confronting the "maternal wall" By: Alice Lloyd George    Women in America today are facing a significant strain in trying to balance their professional and family lives, a panel of three distinguished alumnae explained at Princeton University’s Robertson Hall last week.    In an article published in The New York Times in 2003, Lisa Belkin, a 1982…

  • What’s Going On for the week of March 3

    Male Revue    Friday, March 3 — Enjoy a night out with the men of the American Male Revue at the Hightstown Fire House Ballroom, 140 North Main St.    Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. You must be at least…

  • Council looks for resolution of liens filed against borough

    Subcontractos on the downtown project seek payments By: Marjorie Censer    The Princeton Borough Council is moving toward closing out the first phase of the downtown redevelopment, but members disagreed at Tuesday’s meeting about how to resolve the mechanic’s liens filed against the borough.    Subcontractors on the first phase of the project — the Spring Street…

  • EDITORIAL: Prepare for the ravages of next winter

    EDITORIAL: The worst of winter (and the world) could be nigh, but really, stop worrying.    Winter is technically still on the calendar for another three weeks. But once March hits, it’s hard not to think of spring, even on the days we are still going outside in arctic survival gear.    So far this winter we’ve…

  • Firm president gets three for theft

    Rodger Strandskov, the president of South Brunswick-based Eastern Insurance Co., was sentenced Friday on charges that he stole more than $474,000 in premiums from his clients. By: Joseph Harvie    The president of South Brunswick-based Eastern Insurance Co. was sentenced Friday to three years in state prison on charges that he stole more than $474,000 in…