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  • Letters to the Editor for the week of Feb. 3

    President’s words ring hollow To the editor:     Tuesday night I attended a neighborhood meeting at the home of someone I had never met to watch and discuss the president’s State of the Union address. It brought to mind a joke attributed to Abraham Lincoln:    Question: How many legs does a dog have, if you…

  • Surprise! PDS fencers top Voorhees

    Panthers finally beat Nemesis By: Bob Nuse    Trevor Hummel has no idea of the mastery Voorhees High had over the Princeton Day School boys’ fencing team.    Neither did Nick Krywopusk.    Paul Epply-Schmidt did. But the PDS coach wasn’t about to let his team know about. Until the Panthers posted a 16-11 win over Voorhees on…

  • Merwick options debated

    Some hope reuse would revitalize neighborhood By: David Campbell    The Regional Planning Board of Princeton on Thursday night began its public discussion of reuse options for the Merwick Rehab Hospital & Nursing Care facility off Bayard Lane — options that factored in improved traffic circulation, integration with the surrounding neighborhood and flexible development.    "I think…

  • AROUND CRANBURY by Lorraine Sedor: A week for birthdays and old friends

    Cranbury celebrates Mozart’s birthday, welcomes back friends, and holds a young artists exhibit. Lorraine Sedor    Happy Birthday Wolfgang!    This evening, Feb. 3, the Cranbury Scout Band will present a program at 7:30 in the Large Group Room at Cranbury School.    The all-Mozart program in honor of the composer’s 250th birthday will include works arranged for…

  • Author: JFK assassination provides context to ‘the unthinkable’

    Author discusses JFK assassination at library event By: Marjorie Censer    Things were not as they seemed.    That was the message author Joan Mellen conveyed about the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy to a crowd of roughly 65 people at an event Monday night hosted by the Princeton Public Library.    Ms. Mellen, author…

  • Searching for Emotional Truth

    Mimi Schwartz teaches writing creative nonfiction with a basic rule: ‘Don’t lie.’ By:Ilene Dube    How much can we make up in the telling of our lives, and still call the writing of it memoir? The line separating fact from fiction has been blurred most recently by James Frey.    Mimi Schwartz, co-author of Writing True: The…

  • Plans advance for new Plainsboro traffic signal

    By: Emily Craighead    PLAINSBORO — Plans to install a traffic signal at Dey and Plainsboro roads moved ahead Wednesday with the Township Committee’s approval of an ordinance authorizing the purchase or condemnation of property at that intersection.    The intersection, where Dey Road becomes Edgemere Avenue, will be realigned slightly. Business Administrator Robert Sheehan said it…

  • Celebrating a century of life

    Family and friends threw Helen Rudich a party at the Cranbury Center last Monday to celebrate her 100th birthday. By: Kara Fitzpatrick    Helen Rudich has a successful recipe for a long life: Fill your days with plenty of friends and family.    And that’s just the recipe she followed while celebrating her 100th birthday during a…

  • Sixteen women to be honored by YWCA Princeton

    The 23rd year for Tribute to Women awards    Sixteen women from area businesses, organizations and educational institutions will be honored at the 23rd annual YWCA Princeton’s Tribute to Women awards dinner, to be held at 5:15 p.m. March 8 at the Hyatt Regency Princeton.    The Tribute was established nationally by the YWCA to honor women…