Thursday, May 31, 2001
TOWNSHIP EYES ROUTE 130 IMPROVEMENTS

WASHINGTON — It will be a manicured boulevard with decorative lighting, flowering trees, shrubs and flowers, ornamental welcome signs and passive park areas.  Story

Thursday, May 31, 2001
ART PROGRAM REACHES OUT TO YOUNGSTERS IN NEED
ARTS EXCHANGE PROVIDES SESSIONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN

A program operating quietly behind the scenes at The Arts Council of Princeton may nevertheless stand out as representing the essence of its mission — to build community through the arts.  Story

Thursday, May 31, 2001
HE MOVED FROM RETIREMENT TO THE SHADOW
FRANKLIN RESIDENT BILL CORWIN TAKES ON A LOFTY NEW POSITION TO HELP MOTORISTS

Ever wonder how radio and television stations get all that up-to-the-minute traffic information? Franklin Township resident Bill Corwin is part of a team that makes it possible.  Story

Wednesday, May 30, 2001
LAWSUIT ON HODGE ROAD TRAFFIC-CALMING DEVICES DISMISSED

A Hodge Road resident's lawsuit to stop Princeton Borough from installing two traffic-calming devices adjacent to his property was dismissed Friday by Mercer County Superior Court Judge.  Story

Wednesday, May 30, 2001
FITNESS, DAY-CARE CENTER PLANNED IN PLAINSBORO

PLAINSBORO — The Township Planning Board last week viewed a preliminary concept plan for the Wellness Center at Plainsboro, a 90,000-square-foot facility at Forrestal Center.  Story

Wednesday, May 30, 2001
AUTHOR: WHAT PRICE PUBLIC INPUT?
JOHN WEINGART TELLS A STORY OF INTRACTABLE NIMBY-ISM

 When Sarnoff Corp. unveiled plans to build a 2.75-million-square-foot research campus in residential Penns Neck in February, neighbors and activist groups mobilized such swift and organized opposition that local politicians had to listen.  Story

Tuesday, May 29, 2001
NEW LIFE FOR OLD MERCER OAK
A 20-FOOT SAPLING WILL STAND IN FOR THE LEGENDARY TREE

There were no speeches or fanfare Friday morning as volunteers lowered the 20-foot sapling grown from an acorn of the original Mercer Oak into place at Princeton Battlefield State Park, near where the original oak once stood.  Story

Tuesday, May 29, 2001
RCN STOPS CABLE UPGRADE IN PRINCETON
COMPANY LAYS BLAME ON DOWNTURN IN ECONOMY

 "With the recent downturn in the economy, RCN has had to adjust its plans on a number of fronts, including delaying our plans for Princeton until market conditions sufficiently improve," — RCN's general manager Robert Wewers.  Story

Tuesday, May 29, 2001
NEW REVIEWS SET FOR UNIVERSITY PLACE
MUNICIPAL AND UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS ARE COOPERATING ON A NEW ROAD CONFIGURATION

University Place could have a whole new look, and direction, under design alternatives suggested by municipal and university officials. The Circulation Subcommittee of the Princeton Regional Planning Board held a "what-if" session Wednesday regarding the future designs of University Place.  Story

Monday, May 28, 2001
PLANNERS OK SENIOR DEVELOPMENT

Federal Point, the 140-unit "active adult" housing development proposed for a 37-acre parcel off Federal City Road, gained the township Planning Board's stamp of approval Monday night.  Story

Monday, May 28, 2001
LIBRARY EXPANSION GETS FIRST APPROVAL

BORDENTOWN CITY — The Bordentown Library could see a dramatic increase in size and services under an expansion agreement given preliminary approval by county freeholders last week.  Story

Monday, May 28, 2001
SEEING RED IS HER THING
EXAMINING THE ROLE OF REDHEADED WOMEN IN HISTORY

Princeton University Professor Anne Margaret Daniel is writing a book about redheads. She is doing research into the literary, artistic and musical representation of redheads from about 1600 to the present.  Story

Monday, May 28, 2001
FAMILY REBUILDS AFTER FEBRUARY'S FATAL FIRE
SUPPORT FROM COMMUNITY HELPS WOODARDS PUT THEIR LIVES BACK TOGETHER

A Monmouth Junction family devastated by a fire in their Brookside Mobile home on Route 1 that claimed the life of their 2-year-old son is beginning to recover from the tragedy due in part to the outpouring of help and concern from people all over the township.  Story

Friday, May 25, 2001
MEMORIAL DAY PARADE IS SATURDAY
A KOREAN WAR THEME FOR PRINCETON'S OBSERVANCE

The annual Princeton Memorial Day Parade will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, bringing patriotic music, veterans and kids on decorated bikes to downtown Princeton. Again this year, the parade will highlight a thank-you theme to veterans of the Korean War in commemoration of the war's 50th anniversary.  Story

Friday, May 25, 2001
GRANT HELPS REPAIR VETERANS CEMETERY

NORTH HANOVER — Visitors at the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery on Memorial Day won't see the large, muddy patches left by a messy and wet winter thanks to emergency money from the state.  Story

Friday, May 25, 2001
CARVED IMAGES OF HOPE
SHONA SCULPTURES OFFER RELIEF FOR AREA'S HOMELESS

They may be made out of cold stone, but a group of sculptures that have taken up residence in a Nassau Street storefront seem on the verge of releasing the almost unbounded energy of their African creators.  Story

Friday, May 25, 2001
ONE MAN'S 8-YEAR EFFORT TO YIELD BUST OF EINSTEIN IN PRINCETON
THE BOROUGH COUNCIL APPROVES A SITE, NOW ALL MEL BENARDE NEEDS IS THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THE MONUMENT

Eight years, six designs and many meetings later, Princeton Borough will have a monument to Albert Einstein.  The Borough Council approved Mr. Benarde's request to locate the statue at Borough Hall.  Story

Friday, May 25, 2001
ZOO MUST FIND HOMES FOR LARGE CATS, BEARS

SPRINGFIELD — Animal Kingdom Zoo's owners will have to find new homes for nine large cats and three bears that violate the conditions set forth in 1988 when the zoning board granted a variance permitting the zoo.  Story

Friday, May 25, 2001
COUNCIL EYES TRUCK BAN FOR ROUTE 27

SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The township is investigating to see whether trucks could be banned from Route 27 under a state law that prohibits interstate truck traffic on state highways. A similar ban was enacted in March on Route 29 because trucks were using the road for interstate travel.  Story

Friday, May 25, 2001
TOWN TO FEDS: MOVE MERCURY
AGENCY GETS AN EARFUL PREPARING OF ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT

Federal officials held a meeting Tuesday to hear comments from Hillsborough residents about what to do with 2,615 metric tons of highly toxic mercury stored at the Somerville Depot — and they heard plenty.  Story

Thursday, May 24, 2001
COUPLE HONORED TO LEAD PARADE
DICK AND FRAN WALTER SELECTED GRAND MARSHALS OF ANNUAL MEMORIAL DAY EVENT IN ALLENTOWN

ALLENTOWN — It's a story that brings to mind Rob Reiner's "When Harry Met Sally," NBC's "Cheers," and Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." It was the 1950s in Mercerville and Fran Buehler was visiting with her boyfriend when Dick Walter stopped by to return a pair of borrowed ice skates.  Story

Thursday, May 24, 2001
BORDER WARS
PROPOSED BILL SEEKING TO IMPROVE TOWN RELATIONS OVER DEVELOPEMENT ISSUES

Municipal officials say there are times when the development interests of one community conflict with the goals of a neighbor, or with the wider interests of a region.  Story

Thursday, May 24, 2001
HOME TEAMS
LOCAL FANS DON'T HAVE TO GO FAR TO FIND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ACTION IN THE AREA

For anyone who has grown up in East Windsor or New Egypt, one of the sure signs that summer is coming — along with shorts, T-shirts and neighbors barbecuing — has long been the sound of the local speedways on a Friday or Saturday night. No one has to tell you when they are racing, you can hear it for miles.  Story

Thursday, May 24, 2001
CITY FIREMEN WINNERS OF FAST AWARD

Fire raged through a house on Route 12 in Delaware Township late in the evening Dec. 28, 1998. As firefighters from surrounding communities doused the building with water, flames shot through the roof. With the fire gaining ground and the house in danger of collapse, a single long blast of a fire horn was sounded — the universal signal for all firefighters to immediately leave the building.  Story

Wednesday, May 23, 2001
POLICE OFFICER ANSWERS A CALL FROM THE HOMELAND
PATROLMAN JORGE NARVAEZ ASSISTS CHILDREN AND POLICE OFFICERS IN NICARAGUA

In 1998, Princeton Township Police Officer Jorge Narvaez returned to his homeland, Nicaragua, for the first time in 20 years and he didn't like what he saw.  Story

Wednesday, May 23, 2001
A JOURNEY'S TIMELESS LESSONS
COLD HARDSHIPS FAIL TO DAMPEN TIBETANS' SPIRIT

The radio tower that overlooks Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, occupies a hilltop that was once the site of the Tibetan Medicine College. This seat of knowledge, housing the centuries' old Tibetan tradition of medicine — a blend of homeopathy and arcane mineral remedies — was destroyed by the Chinese during the Cultural Revolution.  Story
Noted film on Tibet to be shown

Wednesday, May 23, 2001
VOLUNTEERS AND ORGANIZERS MAKING THEIR FINAL PLANS FOR MEDICAL CENTER'S JUNE FETE

June Fete Co-Chairwomen Dee Shaughnessy and Carolyn Spohn, along with 2,000 volunteers, are now less than a month away from the "2001 Fete Odyssey," which will be held at the Princeton University playing fields, Washington Road, West Windsor.  Story

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