Town Topics — Princeton's Weekly Community Newspaper Since 1946.
Vol. LXIV, No. 10
 
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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BAKING FOR A CAUSE: Princeton High School (PHS) sophomores Zoe Carril (center) and Emma Honoré (left) recently presented a check for $367.45 to YWCA Breast Cancer Resource Center (BCRC) Director Kara Stephenson (right). The money was raised through PHS’s Awareness of Breast Cancer (ABC) Club, which held two bake sales in January and February in response to BCRC’s “100 Women, 100 Ways, 100 Days” fundraising challenge. The project asked 100 local women to each raise, in innovative ways, $100 for BCRC. The resulting $10,000 will be used to provide local women affected by breast cancer with support groups, counseling, wigs and prostheses, wellness classes, financial assistance, and more. For more information about the project, visit www.ywcaprinceton.org/100women.

“An Inspired Vision”: Princeton Merchants, Community to Celebrate Einstein on Pi Day

Dilshanie Perera

Albert Einstein’s birthday party is this weekend, and the whole community is invited. Sunday, March 14 marks Princeton’s most well-known celebrity’s date of birth, as well as a day beloved by mathematicians, since 3.14 are the first digits of the irrational number pi.

Westerly Road Church Proposal for Ridge Deemed Lacking by Environmental Commission

Dilshanie Perera

While Monday’s Township Committee meeting saw much discussion about Westerly Road Church’s proposal to relocate to a site on Bunn Drive, along the environmentally sensitive Princeton Ridge (see story on page one), development in town is getting a closer look by the Princeton Environmental Commission (PEC).

Conference Looks at Reforming an Expensive And Dysfunctional Corrections Environment

Ellen Gilbert

“If all of you were on parole,” said Vera Institute president and director Michael Jacobson addressing a filled auditorium at the Woodrow Wilson School last week, “half of you would be in prison by now. Prison makes everybody crazy. Everybody violates parole.”

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