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  • PRINCETON: Fire destroys two restaurants early Friday

    PRINCETON: Fire destroys two restaurants early Friday

    Tom Yum Goong, a popular Thai restaurant in Princeton, is pictured here before the 3-alarm fire that destroyed the building early Friday morning.

  • PRINCETON: Fire destroys two restaurants early Friday

    PRINCETON: Fire destroys two restaurants early Friday

    The building at 354 Nassau Street, at the corner of Harrison Street, housed the Tom Yum Goong Thai restaurant and Sultan Wok, a Chinese take-out restaurant.

  • PRINCETON: Fire destroys two restaurants early Friday

    PRINCETON: Fire destroys two restaurants early Friday

    Yum Goong, a Thai restaurant, and Sultan Wok, a Chinese take-out restaurant By Centraljersey.com PRINCETON — An early morning fire on Friday destroyed a building housing two restaurants on Nassau Street.         The 3-alarm fire was reported at about 1:50 a.m. at  354 Nassau Street, location of Tom Yum Goong, a popular Thai restaurant, and Sultan Wok, a Chinese take-out restaurant . The blaze…

  • MONTGOMERY: School board getting Rocky Hill member

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer   MONTGOMERY — The township Board of Education this week welcomed its soon-to-be 10th member, appointed by the Somerset County executive superintendent to represent Rocky Hill.    The appointment is part of the procedure to shut down the Rocky Hill School District, according to legislation enacted June 30 that clarified the procedures…

  • PRINCETON: Hiroshima commemoration at IAS Aug. 5

       PRINCETON — The Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action will host an annual commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on Wednesday, Aug. 5 with talks by two survivors, at the Institute for Advanced Study.    The program will include a minute of silence at 7:15 p.m., the exact time that the bomb dropped on…

  • PRINCETON: 6 tobacconists get trade certification

       Six local tobacconists with A Little Taste of Cuba in Princeton have been named certified tobacconists by Tobacconist University, the official curriculum resource of the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association.    Jorge Armenteros was named Certified Master Tobacconist and the designation of Certified Retail Tobacconist went to Aly A. Badran, Jeffrey A. Davis, R.…

  • LAWRENCE: Womenspace seeking volunteers

       Womanspace is seeking volunteers to join the Domestic Violence Victim Response Team (DVVRT) & Sexual Assault Support Services Advocate Team (SASS).    Team members respond to local police stations or hospitals and meet with victims, providing them with support, information and referral.    In the past ten years the teams have gone on more than 3,785 call-outs…

  • PRINCETON: 31 nations represented in housing complex

    By Lilly LeClair, Special Writer    Princeton’s Community Village, a rental complex for low- to moderate-income individuals and families, has compiled information and found it houses residents from 31 different countries.    This diverse population, the most varied in the 30-year history of the housing site, happened naturally, according to Susan O’Malley, who has been its manager…

  • PRINCETON: NJ Transit cuts some weekend Dinky trains

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer   PRINCETON —   NJ Transit has cut weekend service hours on the Dinky line between Princeton and Princeton Junction as part of a plan to deal with reduced state funding and a tight budget.    Saturday and Sunday trains will now begin running at 9:30 a.m. instead of 6 a.m., and riders…