Category: archives

  • Watershed director named to lead New Jersey Future

    George S. Hawkins to succeed Barbara L. Lawrence. By: David Campbell    George S. Hawkins has been named the new executive director of the nonprofit smart-growth planning group New Jersey Future.    Mr. Hawkins is expected to take up his new post in December, succeeding Barbara L. Lawrence, who left this month after 12 years with the…

  • ‘Sleuth’

    Actors’ NET of Bucks County stages this time-tested murder-mystery. By: Stuart Duncan    They tell the story in London theater circles of British playwright Anthony Shaffer inviting actor Alan Bates to see Sleuth, which had just opened in London’s West End to rapturous reviews. Shaffer was hoping to interest Bates, whom he much admired as an…

  • PHS boys put ‘Fries’ on Lawrence attack

    Little Tigers advance in MCT soccer opener By: Bob Nuse    As much as the Princeton High boys’ soccer team has missed the scoring threat of players like Owen Nichols and Nicholas Devine, the loss of key defenders like Phil Francois and Scott Callahan had left the Little Tigers with just as big a hole to…

  • Oct. 25, 12:28 p.m.: The growing mess in Iraq

    Iraq continues to spin out of control. By: Hank Kalet    Things do not appear to be getting a whole lot better in Iraq, as these stories seem to show.    First, we have the attack and beheadings over the weekend and then the revelation that large quantities of weapons are missing.

  • Oct. 25, 12:26 p.m.: Tough Justice in the Times

    A two-part series in The New York Times offers an overview of military justice gone awry. By: Hank Kalet    Read this two part series in The New York Times. Tough Justice offers an overview of the decisions that went into our approach to justice in Guantanamo and elsewhere.    Part 1.    Part 2.

  • Julius Nemeth

       Julius Nemeth, 81, died Friday at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Trenton, Mr. Nemeth was a resident of Hopewell.    He served his country in the U.S. Navy and was a retired firefighter for the city of Trenton. A member of the retired Firemen and Policemen Association Mercer County Local 12, he also…

  • Luminaries and Surprises

    ‘American Drawings and Watercolors’ at the Princeton University Art Museum is a veritable roll call of American artists. By: Pat Summers "Snow Squall" by Charles Herbert Moore    Too often in art museums, it’s the big, colorful things that grab attention. Visitors seem to gravitate to splashy paintings and bulky sculptures, not noticing or allowing time…

  • Crash injures five in South Brunswick

    BREAKING NEWS: A Friday night accident sends motorcycle driver and four teens to the hospital. By: Hank Kalet    A 45-year-old township man and five teenagers were injured in an accident on Beekman Road Friday night.    Barrett Habib was headed west on Beekman Road on his 2001 Kawasaki motorcycle at 8:10 p.m. when a 2001 Toyota…

  • Letdown in PU showdown

    Up early, Tigers fall fast to Harvard football, 39-14 By: Justin Feil The highlights were over early for the Princeton University football team in its ninth straight time to Harvard, 39-14, Saturday before a Homecoming crowd of 14,304 at Princeton Stadium.    The Tigers lived up to the Ivy League first-play showdown hype in the first…