Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON: Billboard comes to town
By John Saccenti, Staff Writer Jack Young of Mount Lucas Road hasn’t been able to get to Wofford College in South Carolina in some time. After suffering a stroke 18 months ago, Mr. Young had to curtail his trips to the college, where his granddaughter, Joanna Suddath of Jackson, Tenn., played volleyball and recently graduated…
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PLAINSBORO: Making a difference
Plainsboro teenager Abhinav Saika in a school in India this summer, where he brought a message of being an ‘upstander, not a bystander.’ Photo courtesy of Abhinav Saika
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PRINCETON: University opens newest Frick lab
Phil McAuliffe A hallway of the new Frick lab at Princeton. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe
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PRINCETON: Police seeking man who lured teenager
by centraljersey.com Police are seeking a man who tried to order a teenage girl into his Mercedes Benz Friday evening. According to police, at approximately 6:53 p.m. a white man driving a black Mercedes Benz with tinted windows approached a 13-year-old girl near the Princeton Family YMCA on Paul Robeson Place and ordered her into…
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PRINCETON: Peacock Inn flies again
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer The Peacock Inn has had a storied history as a place of respite for members of the Continental Congress, as a speakeasy and even collapsed under the weight of Princeton football players. But it had begun to fall into disrepair until new owners renovated the Bayard Lane mansion this year.…
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WEST WINDSOR: Hamilton police rule in teacher’s death
By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer The death of a local teacher at the Hamilton train station has been ruled a suicide, according to a county official. Brian “Maynard” Welsh, 51, of Hamilton, was killed the afternoon of Aug. 29 when he was hit by an Amtrak Acela train. On Thursday, Mercer County Deputy Director of…
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PRINCETON: Sweet!
Library picks a winner for its anniversary cake By Victoria Hurley-Schubert Three Tiers Cake Studio has been selected to create a cake for the party celebrating Princeton Public Library’s 100th birthday. Leslie Dowling, the baker behind Three Tiers Cake Studio, is a practicing architect in Princeton. The cake base will be a giant red library…
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PLAINSBORO: Twins bring computers to orphanage
Shriya and Shorya Mantry are surrounded by the children and staff of the orphanage in India where the Plainsboro twins set up a computer lab this summer.
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PRINCETON: Volunteer dentist lends his skills to New Orleans
Dentist Howard Silbersher poses with his assistant, right, and a patient in New Orleans in August when he volunteered his services to Remote Area Medical. Photo courtesy of Howard Silbersher
