• Thanking supporters of Princeton Public Library

    Pam Wakefield of Princeton     Last Friday the Friends of the Princeton Public Library held their annual benefit, and it was a spectacular success. We owe that success to an extraordinary benefit committee led by Vivian Allen and Emily Firmenich, an endlessly supportive library staff, generous corporate support and, most of all, to the Princeton…

  • SPRINGFIELD: Farmer’s friends rushed to help in medical crisis

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    SPRINGFIELD — A friendly call from Mark Engle checking in with his longtime friend, Steve Walder, led to an emergency airlift to a Philadelphia hospital to treat an apparent heart attack Mr. Walder had Friday.    ”I’d seen him the day before,” said Mr. Engle, 43, who runs Engle’s Repair Service…

  • PRINCETON: Boro told it must toughen underage drinking law

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    The party may be over for undergraduate revelers and other underage drinkers in Princeton Borough as Borough Attorney Karen Cayci told Borough Council members the municipal judge was refusing to enforce more lenient borough ordinances, which are superceded by state criminal statutes.    Princeton Municipal Court Judge Bonnie Goldman was “very…

  • December programs set at Adath Israel Congregation

        “The Jews of India,” presented by Romiel Daniel, president of the Indian Jewish Congregation of the USA, will be held on Sunday, Dec. 6, at Adath Israel as part of the Sunday’s Speaker’s programs.     This program is free and open to all members of the interested public.     Light refreshments will be served…

  • PRINCETON: Falling leaves land on Township Committee agenda

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    Pointing to the piles of leaves clogging storm drains and creeping into roadways throughout the township, members of the Princeton Environmental Commission asked the Township Committee to expand enforcement of its leaf collection ordinance.    Commission member Matthew Wasserman, a resident of Meadowbrook Drive, said in a committee work session Monday…

  • SUNSHINE LIST

    Municipal, school board and other meetings    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE and HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP OPEN SPACE ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., joint meeting, Municipal building.     HOPEWELL BOROUGH PLANNING BOARD: Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m., Borough Hall.     HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT: Dec. 2, 7 p.m., agenda; 7:30 p.m., regular, Municipal Building.    …

  • MANSFIELD: Police ID body as woman from Queens, N.Y.

    State police have identified the body of a woman that washed up on the shore of the Delaware River on the border of Bordentown and Mansfield townships in mid-November. Police said today, Wednesday, the body was identified as Farisha Rahamot-Ali, 38 of Queens, N.Y.     Ms. Rahamot-Ali, a native of Trinidad, was reported missing to…

  • Crafters’ Marketplace fundraiser a big success

    Andrea Darling of Montgomery     On behalf of the YWCA Princeton, we want to thank everyone who contributed to the success of Crafters’ Marketplace 2009 held this past weekend at John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton.    Despite a faltering economy, proceeds were higher than last year. Everything we earn from Crafters’ Marketplace — funds from…

  • WEST WINDSOR: A Thanksgiving lesson at Village School

    By John Saccenti, Staff Writer    In the back hall of Village School, three kids struggled with a cardboard box wrapped in yellow construction paper.    Brimming with canned goods and other food, its sides seemed ready to burst as the three carefully carried it over the carpeted floor before vanishing through a classroom door.    The fifth-graders…

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