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  • Princeton University plans Community Day on Saturday

       Princeton University will host Community Day on Saturday, the university’s annual celebration of arts, entertainment, sports and community service.    Area residents are invited to the event, to be held at Princeton Stadium.    Community Day offers activities for all ages and interests starting at 11:30 a.m. and running until halftime — about 2 p.m. — of…

  • Neighbors look to hammer out Pine Street Park details

    Consultant’s proposals focus of session with Borough Council By: Marjorie Censer    Pine Street Park neighbors told Princeton Borough representatives Thursday that they want to keep the park simple but rehabilitate it with a new wrought iron fence and mixed shrubbery along the sides.    The neighbors reviewed a rehabilitation plan for the park proposed by Dan…

  • ‘I recognize you’

    Princeton Regional Schools bid farewell to longtime secretary By: Rachel Silverman    When Carmela Drummond first started working in the Princeton Regional Schools, black students went to the Witherspoon School and mimeograph machines filled the main office.    The year was 1952, when Ms. Drummond, a newly minted Princeton High School graduate, was brought on as an…

  • Planners turn town’s policy into reality

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 4 By: Packet Editorial, Oct. 4    Congratulations to the Regional Planning Board of Princeton.    Last Thursday night, by a 7-3 vote, this body turned the vision of the Princeton Township Committee — and countless Princetonians who would like the opportunity to age in place — into reality by approving a 140-unit age-restricted…

  • Women’s Work

    Bristol Riverside Theatre stages the Old West musical ‘I Married Wyatt Earp.’ By: Matt Smith    Following his death in 1929, Wyatt Earp’s common-law wife, Josie Marcus Earp, helped create the legend of the Old West gunslinger — consulting on films about Earp and the 1881 shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz. Many years…

  • EDITOR/LIFESTYLE – DAYTON, NJ

    The Princeton Packet, Inc., currently has a full-time opening for a lifesyle editor in its Dayton, NJ, location. Ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree and at least 1 year reporting experience; editing experience encouraged. Knowledge of AP style helpful. Car and valid driver’s license required. Excellent entry-level editing/reporting position for someone looking to learn…

  • Little Girl Inside

    To sing, René Marie has learned to follow her ‘Wishes.’ By: Susan Van Dongen    When René Marie’s husband told her she could either give up singing or get out of the house, she felt a little like a tightrope walker working without a net. And like an acrobat, she relied on her intuition to guide…

  • Tigers dominate for third straight win

    Outplay Columbia in 43-3 victory Saturday By: Justin Feil Something had to give.    The Princeton University football team made sure that it wasn’t its defense. In a matchup of the top- and third-ranked Ivy League defenses, the No. 3 ranked Tiger defense would not yield while the Princeton offense was unstoppable in a 43-3 win…

  • Princeton board policy helps dyslexic students cope

    Parents say they are thankful "adversarial phase" with school system is over By: Rachel Silverman    After a long period of what some described as the "adversarial phase," parents of dyslexic children are now working hand in hand with Princeton school administrators.    Together, their collaboration has created a district policy on learning disabilities including dyslexia. This…