Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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MERCER COUNTY: Mother Nature’s angels: Welcome to the Mercer County Wildlife Center
Phil McAuliffe At the Mercer County Wildlife Center in Titusville, ‘essentially a hospital for wild animals’ native to New Jersey, Jane Rakos-Yates and Jodi Harley, Wildlife Center technicians, tube-feed an injured red-tailed hawk.
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MERCER COUNTY: Mother Nature’s angels: Welcome to the Mercer County Wildlife Center
Phil McAuliffe Baby Opossums.
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MERCER COUNTY: Mother Nature’s angels: Welcome to the Mercer County Wildlife Center
Phil McAuliffe Baby house sparrows.
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MERCER COUNTY: Mother Nature’s angels: Welcome to the Mercer County Wildlife Center
Phil McAuliffe About 20 animals live permanently at the Mercer County Wildlife Center, including this bald eagle — all used in the center’s education program.
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Americans don’t understand European healthcare systems
Karen Aurup of Princeton In reference to Harold Kane’s letter July 20 on the appointment of Dr. Berwick by President Obama to oversee Medicare and Medicaid I would like to offer the following comments: having worked as an RN in both the UK and Denmark, the last one being my home country, I am…
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MERCER COUNTY: Mother Nature’s angels: Welcome to the Mercer County Wildlife Center
Phil McAuliffe Closeup: Wildlife Center technicians Jane Rakos-Yates and Jodi Harley tube feed an injured red-tailed hawk that is unable to feed itself due to a broken leg.
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MERCER COUNTY: Mother Nature’s angels: Welcome to the Mercer County Wildlife Center
Staff photos by Phil McAuliffe By Pat Summers Special Writer The Mercer County Wildlife Center may not be a place wild animals want to visit, but they’re usually better off once they’ve been there. Ambiguously named, its mission is crystal clear: “Fix them up and get them back into the wild again,” says its…
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Much bigger tax bill irks Princeton resident
Roger Nelson of Princeton We have received our 2010 Final Tax bill and the 2010 Princeton Township Budget Summary. The first is amazing and disconcerting, and the second is wholly incompatible with what is documented in the first. Let me explain. My wife and I, senior citizens, have lived since 1982 in a tiny,…
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AARP New Jersey thanks Gov. Christie
Jim Dieterle of AARP New Jersey AARP New Jersey would like to thank Gov. Christie for his leadership in working with the state legislature to withdraw the original budget proposal concerning PAAD, the state’s prescription drug program for low-income and disabled residents. Over 140,000 individuals would have been adversely affected by the proposed $310…
