Category: archives
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Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week
Tiny Solloway makes big splash for South girls By: Justin Feil For one of the tiniest swimmers on the West Windsor-Plainsboro South girls’ swim team, Jess Solloway certainly made a big impact every time she jumped in the pool last week. The Pirates entered last Tuesday’s showdown with then-unbeaten Princeton High expecting their toughest Colonial…
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Inspired by her ‘heart of love’
Twin Rivers woman authors book of poetry. By: Michael Ross EAST WINDSOR The sea is calm, blue and clear on Love Island a secluded place far from snow and shivers, where a Twin Rivers poet finds solace. "Heart of Love," a collection of poetry by Sandra Bliszcz, went on sale this week at…
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Crew members volunteer for extra work
Volunteers help cover daytime shifts. By: Josh Appelbaum Two township Public Works professionals are helping to protect residents by volunteering for the Cranbury Fire Company. Sean O’Rourke, 31, of Allentown and Jason Marrazzo, 23, of Bordentown have completed mandatory fire training at the Middlesex County Fire Academy and are already contributing members of the Fire…
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Seeking understanding through history
Rimon, the Mordecai T. Mezrich Center for Jewish Learning, in East Windsor is hosting a series of lectures on the history of Jews in America. By: Marisa Maldonado EAST WINDSOR Three hundred and fifty years after the arrival in New Amsterdam of the first 23 Jewish immigrants to the United States, a local Jewish…
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‘Assault on Precinct 13’
Edge-of-your-seat violence keeps the adrenaline flowing in this barrage of bullets, blood and bad language. By: Bob Brown Above, Ja Rule (left) and Maria Bello (right) help, below, Laurence Fishburne (left) and Ethan Hawke (right) against a determined gang of trigger-happy criminals in Assault on Precinct 13. If this movie were an 8-year-old, it would…
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Princeton teen faces terrorist threat charge
PHS basketball player threatened PDS player after game, police assert. By: Jennifer Potash A member of the Princeton High School boys’ basketball team was charged with making terrorist threats after a game against Princeton Day School on Tuesday. Police said the boy, 16, who is a Princeton Township resident, threatened a PDS basketball player during…
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THE STATE WE’RE IN: Monroe failed to do homework
THE STATE WE’RE IN By Michele S. Byers Park purchase could set unwarranted precedent. How many of us were told we couldn’t go out ’til our homework was done? That’s what New Jersey’s Green Acres program does when faced with requests to divert preserved land for other uses. A new request is in from Monroe…
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Sebastian
"Sebastian", a 1-year old blond Persian with enchanting blue eyes, is in need of a loving home and available for adoption from SAVE, Princeton’s animal shelter,900 Herrontown Road, Princeton. For information about adopting "Sebastian", or another dog or cat, call (609) 921-6122. SAVE: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/NJ143.html
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DISPATCHES: A fiscal crisis of ‘rhetoric’ proportion
DISPATCHES By Hank Kalet The safety net that Social Security provides Americans can not be dissolved through scare tactics. Social Security is in crisis. But not because its future is uncertain. The 70-year-old retirement system is facing an all-out rhetorical assault designed to transform the system and hand its assets over to Wall Street, essentially…
