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MANVILLE: VFW ‘Family-type’ day to help veterans’ projects
By Audrey Levine, Staff Writer For the first time in about 20 years, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post (VFW) 2290, on Washington Avenue, will hold what it hopes will be a “family-type day,” with a picnic and games on Aug. 15 to raise funds for veteran initiatives. ”I would like to see this become…
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PLAINSBORO: Township committee awards paving contract
By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer PLAINSBORO — The days of drivers dodging potholes on George Davison Road are coming to an end. At its meeting Wednesday night, the township committee awarded an $867,000 contract for the road’s reconstruction and repaving from Cranbury Neck Road to the vicinity of Plainsboro Road. Construction is scheduled to begin…
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PRINCETON AREA: Last chance to tour Sarnoff Library: A shrine to high tech faces an uncertain future
By George Point Special to The Packet New Jersey has a pretty sorry track record when it comes to preserving its history. The laboratory complex that Thomas Edison built in Menlo Park in the 1870s — the first industrial research center in the country — was already a ruin when Henry Ford rescued the…
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Readers thanked for offers of help
Minx McCloud Recently, I wrote a column about four abandoned kittens (“Will someone help abandoned kittens?”, July 16). The reader response was heartwarming, and we have a happy ending. Well, mostly. I received $60 in donations to give “Helen” toward the neutering and vet’s bill. She tells me she thinks she has found a vet…
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PRINCETON: Bristol-Myers Squibb buys Medarex
PRINCETON — Biopharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb has announced it will acquire Medarex, Inc., a Princeton-based drug developer, for $16 a share, or $2.4 billion. The boards of directors of both companies have approved the sale. ”Medarex’s technology platform, people and pipeline provide a strong complement to our company’s biologics strategy, specifically in immuno-oncology,” said James…
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STATE: Republican Christie picks running mate
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer Republican candidate for governor Chris Christie and running mate Kim Guadagno continued a tour of New Jersey after Mr. Christie announced the Monmouth County sheriff as his pick for lieutenant governor Monday. Mr. Christie and Ms. Guadagno traveled Monmouth County on Wednesday after making stops in Mercer and Camden counties…
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Looking for an Exciting Way to Keep Your Kids Busy on Sunday Morning
By Candace Botnick Robert L. Wolkoff Rabbi Bruce D. Rockman Hazzan Ruth Anne Koenick President Lynne WeissMarshall Administrator Ann Kanarek Education Director Phyllis G. Denenberg Nursery School Director Congregation B’nai Tikvah 1001 Finnegan’s Lane North Brunswick New Jersey 08902 BnaiTikvah.org Internet [email protected] Email 732.297. 0696 Synagogue 732. 297. 0295 School 732. 297. 2673 Fax Looking…
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