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  • Be it hereby resolved …

    What’s with this resolution thing, anyway? By: Hilary Parker    January is about as conducive to eating less and exercising more as credit cards are to eliminating debt.    It’s cold and dark outside. The skimpy clothing of spring and summer are forgivingly far, far away, and chunky sweaters wrap oh-so-forgivingly around our (slightly larger) girths.    On…

  • Auld lang job

    Some must ring in the new year behind a cash register By: Hilary Parker    Perhaps old acquaintances were brought to mind, but — as old friends and auld lang syne were celebrated — the hustle-bustle of the daily grind often was forgotten as 2005 rolled into 2006.    Forgotten, that is, for those people who had…

  • Auld lang job

    Some must ring in the new year behind a cash register By: Hilary Parker    Perhaps old acquaintances were brought to mind, but — as old friends and auld lang syne were celebrated — the hustle-bustle of the daily grind often was forgotten as 2005 rolled into 2006.    Forgotten, that is, for those people who had…

  • West Windsor redevelopment to be discussed by junction group

    By: Jake Uitti    WEST WINDSOR — Charles Morgan, West Windsor’s Township Council president, will address the Thursday evening meeting of the Princeton Junction Neighborhoods’ Coalition.    Mr. Morgan will be discussing a set of principles he believes should guide the Princeton Junction train station redevelopment effort to help ensure an open, public process, now that the…

  • Film historian’s classic comedies still hold punch

    A packed house gets a new look at Harold Lloyd, Popeye and fellow stars of the early 20th century By: Marjorie Censer    Harold Lloyd’s still got it.    As the film star — who made more than 200 movies in the first third of the 20th century — stumbled along the ledge of a skyscraper in…

  • Group networks, empowers romance writers

    Two-decade-old organization includes many from Princeton By: Marjorie Censer    It all started with a lunchroom discussion of romance novels.    Gail Freeman had been reading quite a few — and she was convinced she could write better than what she was seeing. So she sat down and penned her own.    But once she sent it out…

  • Small Rocky Hill Borough generated big headlines in 2005

    From shifts in town government leadership to construction of a major park By: Jake Uitti    ROCKY HILL — Documenting the events of 2005 in Rocky Hill may seem like something you could ask a new intern to do over a lunch break, but the citizens who experienced the historic borough’s ins and outs last year…

  • Tourney testing is bonus

    Hoop pair reach girls’ finals By: Justin Feil    Holiday tournaments are early testing times.    A variety of holiday tournaments gave area girls’ basketball teams a chance to see what they need to work on to be in contention come the next tournament time — at the end of the season in states.    A pair of…

  • Greenman’s return helps PU’s chances

    Tigers hang with Rutgers for 36 minutes By: Bob Nuse    PISCATAWAY — As the Princeton University men’s basketball team moves within a week of opening the Ivy League season, there were signs things may just be ready to work out after all.    This, despite the fact the Tigers dropped their fifth straight, falling to 2-9…