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  • Couple gives $25 million for new hospital building

    Couple gives $25 million for new hospital building

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    Former West Windsor residents David and Patricia Atkinson have pledged $25 million for the construction of the new University Medical Center at Princeton on a site in Plainsboro Township, in what hospital officials say will be the largest donation ever made to a hospital in New Jersey.    The majority of…

  • State’s proposed aid cuts to small towns rouse Rocky Hill

    State’s proposed aid cuts to small towns rouse Rocky Hill

    Rocky Hill Mayor Ed Zimmerman, shown outside Borough Hall, is alarmed by projected state aid cuts to New Jersey’s smallest municipalities. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • The days of rail travel not likely to return to Plainsboro

    The days of rail travel not likely to return to Plainsboro

    Republican presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie waves to the crowd at the Plainsboro railroad station on Nov. 2, 1940, during a whistle-stop rally. Courtesy Evelyn Wicoff, Plainsboro Historical Society

  • Environmental auction set for Princeton High School

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    Forget “Silent Spring” — the new movement in environmentalism is silent auctions.    At least at Princeton High School.    From 6 to 8 p.m. March 19 at the school’s Numina Gallery, PHS biology teacher Andrea Panagakis and her bioethics classes will hold a silent auction to raise money for a campaign…

  • Commission seeks firms to assess Princeton’s emergency prepardness

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    The Princeton Regional Health Commission is nearly ready to ask the question: “Are people ready?”    After months of discussion, the commission is close to finalizing a request for proposals — or RFPs — for a firm to conduct a study of how prepared residents are for an emergency, Regional Health…

  • Downtown Merchant Alert Program to be revived

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    When Sovereign Bank on Nassau Street was robbed in October 1997 and a motorist was carjacked by one of the perpetrators, borough merchants were quickly on the phone, informing each other about the situation.    ”It kicked right in,” said Triangle copy center CEO Bill Howard, referring to the since-dormant Merchant…

  • Constitution’s ‘original intent’ must guide court, Scalia tells PU

    Constitution’s ‘original intent’ must guide court, Scalia tells PU

    Brian Wilson U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia received the James Madison Award from Princeton University’s American Whig-Cliosophic Society on Friday. Photo by Brian Wilson

  • POLICE BLOTTER, March 11

    Princeton Borough    Juan Carlos Salazar, 29, of Princeton was charged with disorderly conduct at 5:42 p.m. Thursday following an investigation of a verbal dispute involving intoxicated people at 206 Witherspoon St., police said. Mr. Salazar was arrested after he ran from the scene, hid underneath a car and subsequently became disorderly when confronted by police…

  • Couple gives $25 million for new hospital building

    Couple gives $25 million for new hospital building

    Rendering shows proposed south entrance to University Medical Center at Princeton building in Plainsboro, facing the Millstone River. The design is by Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum and RMJM Hillier.