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Princeton Township and Princeton Borough are set to begin a new round of talks with the Princeton Public Library about the parking subsidy that was cancelled in February after the municipalities failed to agree on a cost-sharing formula. Since then, the library has reported a drop in revenue that has been attributed to a drop in gate counts and café and gift shop revenues. At a library board of trustees meeting last week, Township Mayor Phyllis Marchand and Borough Mayor Mildred Trotman said that new talks might lead to some agreement by the end of the year. (LA)

Princeton High School’s Back to School Night will take place on Thursday, at 7 p.m.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides has been named professor of creative writing at Princeton University’s Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. Mr. Eugenides’s 2002 novel, Middlesex, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Princeton Day School’s fifth grade class is sponsoring a public flea market this weekend to help finance various community service projects, including HomeFront. The flea market will take place September 29, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the PDS campus. For more information, or to rent a booth, call (609) 658-7487.

The Coalition for Peace Action will rally on the State House steps in Trenton on October 2, from noon to 1 p.m., to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. Congress authorization of the Iraq war resolution. Confirmed speakers include Peace Action executive director the Rev. Robert Moore, and Bruce Tornari, a Vietnam War combat veteran. Invited speakers include U.S. Representatives Rush Holt, Frank Pallone, and Donald Payne; as well as Sen. Bob Menendez and Gov. Jon Corzine. Carpooling from the Princeton area will leave from the Rite Aid (formerly Eckerd) end of the Princeton Shopping Center, at 300 N. Harrison Street at 11:15 a.m. To carpool or for more information, call (609) 924-5022 or visit www.peacecoalition.org.

The Princeton Area League of Women Voters will hold its “Fall Back to League” meeting on Wednesday, October 3, at Princeton Township Hall at 7:30 p.m. with keynote speaker Debbie Walsh, the director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute. Ms. Walsh will speak on “New Jersey Politics: Where Are The Women?” The meeting is open to the public and refreshments will be served.

Starting Wednesday, October 3, the Latin American Task Force will offer free citizenship classes at the Princeton Public Library, geared to prepare immigrants for the naturalization interview required as part of the process of becoming a U.S citizen. U.S. history and civics will be taught, and basic English necessary for the interview will also be reviewed. The classes will meet Wednesday evenings from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Conference room on the second floor of the library in October and November. Registration will take place at the first session. While the classes are free, students will be expected to purchase a copy of the textbook to practice the material discussed. For more information, call (609) 393-4900, ext. 14.

Princeton Regional Schools Special Education PTO will hold its first meeting of the year on Thursday, October 4, at 8 p.m., in the John Witherspoon Middle School library. The evening is an opportunity to meet fellow parents, district staff, and administrators. For more information, call Marianne Carnevale (609) 921-0768, or Susan Pittenger (609) 683-4398.

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