Saturday, June 24, 2000
VETERANS REMEMBERED FOR KOREA ROLE
ASIAN CONFLICT STARTED 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

Sunday is the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean conflict. Nicholas R. Loveless, a former police chief in Lawrence Township and chairman of the township's Veterans Memorial Committee, recalls the conflict and the part that Lawrence residents played in it.  Story

Saturday, June 24, 2000
RAIL PROPOSAL MOVES FORWARD
CENTRAL NEW JERSEY RAIL BILL APPROVED BY SENATE PANEL

A proposed rail line through central New Jersey took yet another step forward last week as the state Senate Transportation Committee moved a bill to the full Senate for a vote. The bill would make the rail line a top priority, making it eligible for federal and state funding.  Story

Saturday, June 24, 2000
HOPEWELL SEEKS REMOVAL OF TOP-SECURITY PRISONERS
MERCER COUNTY OFFICIALS: THEY WILL NOT BE MOVED

"It's nothing but more Jon Edwards demagoguery" was how Mercer County spokesman Thomas Rubino reacted to a Hopewell Township Committee request to the county freeholders that they discontinue hauling wastewater from the County Correction Center.  Story

Friday, June 23, 2000
HODGE ROAD PLAN ADOPTED, HUMPS AND ALL
PLAN WILL PROCEED WITH SPEED TABLES AND TRAFFIC ISLANDS

Reconstruction of Hodge Road in Princeton will go forward with speed humps, speed tables and traffic islands, despite continued and varied complaints from residents. This week the borough council voted 5-1 to approve the plans containing the controversial islands.  Story

Friday, June 23, 2000
ARTS CENTER EYED AT CHOIR COLLEGE
PRINCETON REGIONAL, RIDER UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES TO MEET

The Princeton Regional Board of Education's Facilities Committee has begun preliminary discussions with the Westminster Choir College of Rider University about jointly operating a performing and creative arts center on the choir college campus.  Story

Friday, June 23, 2000
2¢ FOR LOCAL TAXES; 1¢ FOR OPEN SPACE?
PRINCETON BOROUGH APPROVES BUDGET, INTRODUCES OPEN SPACE TAX

The Princeton Borough Council introduced an ordinance this week to submit to referendum a 1-cent open-space tax for the November ballot. The council also approved a $17.5 million municipal budget that includes a separate 2-cent tax hike.  Story

Friday, June 23, 2000
HILLSBOROUGH SEEKS OPEN SPACE PURCHASING POWER
TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE INTRODUCES OPEN SPACE BONDING ORDINANCE

The Hillsborough Township Committee soon will have the ability to quickly pay large amounts for open space, according to an ordinance introduced last week. The ordinance would "leverage" the township's Open Space Trust fund by issuing up to $13 million in bonds.  Story

Friday, June 23, 2000
MCCARTER PLANS ADDITION
GROUNDBREAKING SLATED FOR $10.5M THEATER

McCarter Theatre has unveiled architectural drawings of the new, 350-seat, $10.5 million Berlind Theatre, which will provide a second stage for McCarter and permit closer integration with Princeton University's programs in theater and dance.  Story

Thursday, June 22, 2000
AIRBOAT CAPSIZES IN DELAWARE
MISSING LAMBERTVILLE-NEW HOPE RESCUE BOAT FOUND NEAR TITUSVILLE

Years of training on the Delaware River and experience with river rescues averted a tragedy last week when the Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance and Rescue Squad's airboat capsized and sank with two squad members aboard during a swift-water training session.  Story

Thursday, June 22, 2000
JULY 4TH SPARKING FIREWORKS
COUNCILMAN CLAIMS NEW HOPE 'HOODWINKED' INTO CANCELLATION

A decision by the New Hope Chamber of Commerce to withdraw support for fireworks on the upcoming Fourth of July and a borough official's response to that has ignited a spectacular display of fireworks of another kind.  Story

Thursday, June 22, 2000
SENIORS ENTER THE INFORMATION AGE
CYBERSENIORS OFFERS COMPUTER COURSES FOR ELDERS

While this is the time of year when many young people are finishing their education, some older adults in the area are just beginning theirs. The elderly are catching up with the ever-changing world of computers with the help of Marcia Duhart of Hightstown.  Story

Thursday, June 22, 2000
HILLSBOROUGH BACKS EFFORT TO PROTECT RIDGE
GOVERNING BODY SUPPORTS SOURLAND GROUP'S GRANT BID

The Hillsborough Township Committee expressed support last week for the Sourland Planning Council's desire to secure a state grant with which the Sourlands' environmental features could be studied. The environmental study would help municipalities protect the ridge.  Story

Wednesday, June 21, 2000
GOING FOR THE GOLD
…AT THE TRANSPLANT OLYMPICS

David Barry never dreamed he would be an Olympic athlete at 45. When the Olympic torch makes its way to Sydney, Australia, this summer, Mr. Barry will not be a participant. Yet he will act as a torchbearer for thousands of Americans this week at the U.S. Transplant Games in Orlando, Fla.  Story

Wednesday, June 21, 2000
BACK TO 'ROOTS' FOR KATHRYN FLICKER
MONTGOMERY RESIDENT FIRST WOMAN TO HOLD JUSTICE DIRECTOR'S POST

After nearly 20 years spent prosecuting criminals in Mercer County, Kathryn Flicker, the newly appointed director of the state Division of Criminal Justice, enjoyed a rousing homecoming last week at the Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex.  Story

Wednesday, June 21, 2000
COMPANIONS ON THE SACRED JOURNEY
WORKSHOP EXPLORED THE PARADOXES OF CELTIC CHRISTIANITY

Celtic Christianity was the subject of a workshop given by the Rev. Timothy Joyce, a Benedictine monk and prior of Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham, Mass., part of the Companions on the Sacred Journey conference marking the 50th anniversary of Fellowship in Prayer.  Story

Wednesday, June 21, 2000
HIDDEN IN LIFE, IGNORED IN DEATH
NEGLECTED CEMETERY AT STATE INSTITUTE SITE FOCUS OF RESTORATION

Beyond a marshy meadow, above a wooded knoll at the former North Princeton Developmental Center in Montgomery, is an old cemetery simply referred to by the few who know of its existence as the upper cemetery. It's not your typical cemetery.  Story

Tuesday, June 20, 2000
TOWNSHIP COPPER IS HIGH ON CHOPPERS
CROSS-COUNTRY HELICOPTER FLIGHT MAKES FOR TRIP OF A LIFETIME

Some people have a fight instinct. Others may have a flight instinct. Princeton Township Police Lt. Robert Buchanan has both. When Lt. Buchanan is not fighting crime with the Township Police Department, he's up in the air, behind the controls of a helicopter. Lt. Buchanan received his private helicopter pilot license in April through Nassau Helicopter.  Story

Tuesday, June 20, 2000
POLICE HIT KILLER'S BID FOR PAROLE
PRESS CONFERENCE HELD TO PROTEST THOMAS TRANTINO'S RELEASE

The state's highest-ranking law enforcement officers, as well as a coalition of local chiefs of police, urged the state Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court ruling to parole Thomas Trantino, the killer of two Lodi police officers in 1963, at a press conference Monday.  Story

Tuesday, June 20, 2000
PROTEST GROWS TO PARKING FEE HIKE
PRINCETON MERCHANTS, RESIDENTS, SHOPPERS SIGN PETITIONS

Princeton Borough merchants, along with some residents and downtown shoppers, are preparing do to battle with the Borough Council over proposed parking meter rate changes. Petitions are being circulated calling for the council to abandon the proposal.  Story

Monday, June 19, 2000
NOT A B-A-A-D LIFE FOR THIS MATE
TATTOO CAN MATE TWICE A DAY, BUT HE'S NOT A CHEAP DATE

In the world of alpaca sheep, Tattoo is a Leonardo DiCaprio, if not quite yet a Warren Beatty. Tattoo is a good-looking young stud, weighing a trim 154 pounds with a shiny black fleece that resembles dreadlocks. He has the stamina to mate twice a day, but he's not a cheap date — his breeding fee is $5,000.  Story

Monday, June 19, 2000
MACLEAN LOT PARKING SQUEEZE LOOMING
HOUSING CONSTRUCTION TO LIMIT ACCESS, BUT FUTURE UNDECIDED

The MacLean Street parking lot has become the subject of a quiet dispute in the overall battle for parking spots in the downtown. The construction of 12 units of affordable housing on MacLean Street and Shirley Court will shrink the lot to 50 spaces.  Story

Monday, June 19, 2000
INSTITUTE BUILDING PROPOSAL ENDORSED
PLANS INCLUDE GARDEN AND SCULPTURE COURTS, CRABAPPLE GROVE

The Princeton Site Plan Review Advisory Board has endorsed the Institute for Advanced Study's plans for a new, two-story building to house the institute's School of Natural Sciences. The proposal includes the construction of a T-shaped, 22,391-square-foot building.  Story

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