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  • Sixty residents mull future of key Montgomery site

    An exercise in citizen consensus for the undeveloped Belle Mead Node By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Residents gathered in the Municipal Building early Saturday to try to decide, with the help of township officials and two nonprofit planning organizations, what to do with the undeveloped area known as the Belle Mead Node.    This was the…

  • The holidays at Drumthwacket

    The Garden Club of Princeton joins its sister clubs in preparing the mansion for tours By: Pat Summers    Lucky Drumthwacket: What happens there at winter holiday time is the dream of home decorators all over.    Each year the governor’s residence in Princeton attracts garden clubs from all over New Jersey, eager to make it even…

  • Princeton football takes another step forward

    Little Tigers earn sixth win By: Bob Nuse    The Princeton High football program took another step forward this season.    It just wasn’t as big a step as the Little Tigers would have liked.    With Saturday’s season-ending 42-0 win over West Windsor-Plainsboro North, Princeton finished the season with a 6-4 record. The six wins are the…

  • ‘Small Works’ to open at A.R.T. space

       A.R.T.space Gallery of Palmer Square, Princeton, announces the opening of "Small Works," a show featuring small paintings and works on paper by the artists of Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.) An opening reception will be held in the gallery on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.    Recently featured in an exhibition at Princeton University, A.R.T. represents…

  • ‘You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown’

    The Bickford Theatre revisits the updated 1999 Broadway version of this play, based on the comic strip by Charles Schultz. By: Stuart Duncan    On the evening of March 7, 1967, the legendary critic Walter Kerr did something he had never done before and apparently never did again — he deliberately delayed writing his review so…

  • ‘Eleanor Roosevelt’ recounts living a life of her very own

    One-woman show performed before Princeton Community Democratic Organization By: Marjorie Censer    Though members of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization typically gather to talk current events, at Sunday’s meeting they instead took a long look back.    Linda Kenyon performed a one-woman show called "A Life of My Own: Meeting Eleanor Roosevelt." Dressed as Mrs. Roosevelt —…

  • Aligned ‘Stars hand South football loss

    Pirates fall in CJ III semifinal By: Bob Nuse    The perfect season came to an end for the West Windsor-Plainsboro High South football team on Saturday.    The Pirates just wish it could have ended on better terms.    WW-P South lost for the first time this season when it dropped a 19-10 decision to Nottingham in…

  • Democrats nominate three for Borough Council

    Kevin Wilkes comes with a ‘highly recommended’ rating By: Marjorie Censer    The Princeton Democratic Municipal Committee nominated Anne Waldron Neumann, Barbara Trelstad and Kevin Wilkes for the empty Princeton Borough Council seat Monday night — and particularly singled out Mr. Wilkes, highly recommending him.    The three nominated candidates were the only ones to submit their…

  • Discovering the joys of porchetta at Salumi

    This homey Italian roast pork, a favorite in my maternal grandfather’s region of Abruzzo, should be juicy and a bit fatty By: Faith Bahadurian    I recently visited Washington State, with oysters and the Italian cured meats known as salumi on my mind. Oysters because my uncle lives along the Hood Canal, in Lilliwaup, where the…