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Judo Club of YWCA Princeton Shines Brightly as they Nab Top Medals
By Diane Hasili YWCA Princeton Judo Students Bring Home the Gold Ten junior members of the YWCA Princeton Judo club finished 2012 by competing in and earning an impressive number of medals in the annual Tech Judo Invitational in North Bergen. This annual event attracts judo competitors from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania and is regarded as…
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PRINCETON AREA: Flu cases increase locally
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer As chairman of the emergency department at University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, Dr. Craig Gronczewski has been seeing his share of flu patients. Medical professionals like him are dealing with an uptick in flu cases this year, as the nation battles what’s been called a flu epidemic…
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PHS PERSPECTIVE: Whatever the year, midterms are stressful
By Elena Wu-Yan and Diane Karloff With the beginning of the new year come both excitement and anxiety for what the future holds. Such feelings will only intensify for Princeton High School students in the next weeks as midterm exams approach. But how can these exams, which constitute just one day in a yearlong or…
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PRINCETON: University, youth center to sever legal ties
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Princeton University will sever its formal legal affiliation with and control over the Princeton-Blairstown Center, a more than 100-year-old charity that serves inner city youth. Since 1995, the center had been classified as a support organization of the Ivy League school an arrangement that meant the center’s roughly…
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KESSLER REHABILITATION CENTER DONATION TO AID HURRICANE SANDY RELIEF
By irene maslowski Contribution to support health and recovery of affected communities Lyndhurst, NJ n Kessler Rehabilitation Center (www.kessler-pt.com) has donated $4000 to the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund to help support the many communities throughout the state that were impacted by the October storm and its aftermath. “This donation was made in honor…
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LOOSE ENDS: Two reorganizations and a funeral
By Pam Hersh “Two Reorganization Meetings and a Funeral” refers not to the title of a campy new movie, but rather three events occurring in the first week of January that put me in the right frame of mind for tackling the challenges of 2013. Even though only separated by a few days and a…
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MCCC To Host Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Trenton Campus Jan. 21
By Candace Zafirellis Mercer County Community College invites the community to its annual celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on Monday, Jan. 21, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is open to the public and will be held in Kerney Hall at the Trenton Campus, 102 North Broad Street. This…
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WEST WINDSOR: Mayor discusses upcoming plans, projects
By Charley Falkenburg, Special to the Packet WEST WINDSOR About 50 people, including Councilman Kamal Khanna, joined Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh at Town Hall on Saturday to hear about developments, projects and other initiatives West Windsor will be tackling in 2013. The mayor, along with Business Administrator Marlena Schmid, Community Development Director Pat Ward and…
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PRINCETON: Booking on sermons to fund local charities
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Jim Knipper, a deacon at St. Paul Catholic Church in Princeton, had never done anything like this. About a year ago, he started a project to create in book form an ecumenical collection of sermons and homilies from across three denominations of Christianity. The result: “Hungry, and You Fed…
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