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  • Well-rested and massaged by foot

    Motorcyclist makes pit stop here By: Emily Craighead    MONTGOMERY — With the agility of a monkey maneuvering among tree branches, Lisa Diemer dangles from two horizontal bars, moving her feet in slow, strategic movements.    On a table below, Chuck Lamb lies on his stomach, engrossed in one of his passions — Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy,…

  • TANGENTS: Reflections on a grad’s choice

    TANGENTS By John Saccenti Enlisting in the military is a personal decision.    I remember sitting in a restaurant in Lawrenceville just a few months ago, celebrating the high school graduation of my wife’s nephew. It was probably less than two hours after the ceremony, and the nine of us had taken up three tables. There…

  • Editorial Assistant – Allentown, NJ

    The Princeton Packet, Inc., a group of award winning community newspapers is looking for a full-time (M-F, 9 am – 5:30 pm) editorial assistant in its Allentown, NJ office Will be responsible for processing office mail, telephones, typing (copy input) under deadline, supplies and petty cash. Will take phone messages and direct visitors. Will provide…

  • NJ Transit delays Monroe shuttle bus

    Officials wait for five passenger buses and blame NJ Transit for delay. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — Nearly three years after receiving $400,000 in federal funds to improve commuter bus service in the township, officials are still waiting for delivery of five passenger buses purchased with the money.    And they will have to continue waiting…

  • Dual role eyed for schools chief

    Bolandi could get reins in Roosevelt. By: Marisa Maldonado    ROOSEVELT — To cut down on administrative costs due to stricter state regulations, a familiar face soon could become the district’s chief school administrator.    Both the Roosevelt and East Windsor school boards have discussed the possibility of East Windsor Superintendent Ronald Bolandi assuming the top position…

  • ‘March of the Penguins’

    A nature documentary has all the thrills, chills and laughs missing from this season’s blockbusters. By: Jim Boyle Emperor penguins travel 70 miles across Antarctica to their mating ground in March of the Penguins.    It’s officially the summer of the penguin. As most of the so-called blockbusters struggle to sell tickets, and industry experts bemoan…

  • Crowds expected at Jersey Fresh festival

    …fair-goers can browse and shop at the on-site farmers’ market, craft zone and authors’ table, where they can get cookbooks autographed by New Jersey scribes By: Pat Tanner    When New Jersey wineries, restaurants and farmers team up to celebrate the bounty and beauty of a Garden State summer for this year’s Jersey Fresh Wine &…

  • Residents: Use zoning to preserve uniqueness

    Committee does not change recommendations for proposed ordinance By: Marjorie Censer    Residents urged the Zoning Amendment Review Committee of the Regional Planning Board of Princeton Tuesday to consider the four housing zones of the borough separately in order to account for each zone’s unique features. Their feedback comes as the board looks for ways to…

  • Without fund, gridlock looms in New Jersey

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Aug. 12    Opponents of Route 92, the Millstone Bypass and other projects aimed at moving vehicles and their occupants more easily and efficiently through the nation’s most densely populated state have cause for optimism these days. The chances that any of these projects will actually be started, much less completed, in anything remotely…