Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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University’s new Whitman College nearly ready
Whitman College, a $100 million collegiate Gothic tour de force designed by Demetri Porphyrios, is nearly ready for students. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
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YMCA names operations director
Former Girls Scouts officer to oversee daily operations Katherine “Katy” Bech has been named the new operations director at the Princeton Family YMCA. ”We are very excited to bring Katy to our organization,” said Kate Story, YMCA CEO. “She brings significant skills, experience and passion to the position and will play a leading role in…
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Township-borough rift on financing goes public
This sewage pumping station on Mount Lucas Road is the object of contention between borough and township officials. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski
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University’s new Whitman College nearly ready
New complex, in collegiate Gothic style, to house 500 students By Katie WagnerStaff Writer Princeton University’s sixth residential college and largest single building project ever is gearing up for its first student occupants this month. Whitman College will house 500 undergraduate and 10 graduate students in an approximately 255,000-square-foot structure with a traditional, collegiate gothic…
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Mastering their p’s, q’s and Rx’s
Teachers are schooled in pharmaceuticals By Katie WagnerStaff Writer MONTGOMERY In a media center-converted classroom in Montgomery High School, one of the school district’s biology teachers posed a scientific question to 58 high school educators of a variety of disciplines from five states. Paul Spinelli wanted to know what scientific information would be helpful…
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Bunn Drive parcel for senior housing gets a fresh proposal
Hillier makes pitch for 55-plus project By Nick NorlenStaff Writer Architect and developer J. Robert Hillier surprised some members of the Princeton Township Committee on Monday by appearing with a pitch for an age-restricted housing project on the Bunn Drive site abandoned by developer K. Hovnanian in October 2006. Representing his personal development company, Mr.…
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AT WORK
Robert J. Kumert, plant manager, Stony Brook Regional Sewerage Authority Greg Forester Staff Writer How did you get into this job? Well, I was 20 years old, looking for a full-time job to get myself into. I was down in Bordentown, at the lumberyard applying for a job, and a man in the…
