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A Community Bulletin

A trespasser was killed by a train Tuesday afternoon at Princeton Junction Station in West Windsor, causing delays on the Northeast Corridor Line as all New Jersey Transit trains from New York and Newark and points north of Trenton bypassed the Princeton Junction and Hamilton stations while the incident was being investigated, according to New Jersey Transit. No further details on the fatality were available at Town Topics press time. (MH)

Princeton Township Committee Monday night agreed to examine a proposed ordinance stifling the practice of "pay to play" that limits the awarding of public contracts to professional business entities that have made political contributions, as well as limiting the contributions that the holders of a contract can make, in order to ensure a "fair and open bid process." The proposed code, presented to Township Committee by former Borough Mayor Marvin Reed, as well as by Princeton Community Democratic Organization president Jenny Crumiller and PCDO member Russ Weiss, would apply to any "professional, banking, insurance coverage, or consulting services with a value of over $17,500," placing a $2,500 cap on a group of principals of a "professional business entity." "In a way, this is preventive medicine," Mr. Reed said, adding that "while this is a time when we least need it in Princeton, we hope that that day will never come." Mr. Reed said that with planned development at the current hospital site and Merwick, "we need to establish an ordinance, and make it a more thorough system." (MH)

Princeton Borough Democratic primary mayoral candidates Kim Pimley and incumbent Mildred Trotman will square off today, April 25, in a debate, "Uniting Town and Gown: Why Local Politics Matter," sponsored by the Princeton University College Democrats. The event, to be moderated by Princeton resident and Woodrow Wilson School professor Stanley Katz, will begin at 7:30 p.m., at McCormick 101 on the Princeton University campus.

Members of the New Jersey Students for Peace, the student affiliate of the Coalition for Peace Action, were scheduled to leave for Washington, D.C. this morning, Wednesday, April 25, for a Lobby Day. The group was to leave by chartered bus at 8 a.m. from the Community Park North Parking Lot on Mountain Road and to arrive in the capital around noon, where they were to be briefed by Miranda Wilson, the Student Peace Action Network Coordinator for National Peace Action and to attend appointments with New Jersey Senators and Representatives during the afternoon before departing for the return trip to Princeton in the early evening. For more information, visit www.peacecoalition.org, or call (609) 924-5022 on weekdays, or contact NJSFP President Mary Ann Thomas, at (609) 439-8134, or send email to maryanntho@gmail.com in the evening.

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