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  • Letters to the Herald

    For the Feb. 13 issue. Using cell phone while driving is dangerous To the editor:     Karen Mitchell’s "Musings" in last week’s Herald made me wonder: Have we, as a society, become too complacent operating a motor vehicle? Is it too easy? Two thousand pounds of engine, chassis and frame, barreling down the roadway, even…

  • OBITUARIES, Feb. 13, 2004

    Janet R. Kwiatkoski, Dr. Yulia Seneko, Carl F. Ruppert, Joanne E. Scott, Joan M. Toulson. Janet R. Kwiatkoski Educator, active volunteer     MONTGOMERY — Janet R. Kwiatkoski died Jan. 22 at University Medical Center at Princeton. She was 70.    Born in Pittsburgh she grew up in Williamsport, Pa., and was a resident of California before…

  • Small Format, Big View

    The Super 8 Film + Digital Video Festival offers juried selections from around the world. By: Elise Nakhnikian    For some filmmakers — most famously Steven Spielberg, who shot Super 8 movies in his backyard as a kid — small-gauge movies are the first stop on the road to studio success. Others remain loyal to the…

  • PDS warms up for state run

    Panther boys’ basketball team faces nemesis next By: Bob Nuse    When your team wins its opening-round game in the state tournament by 30 points, there are plenty of things to be happy about.    For Princeton Day School boys’ basketball coach Ahmed El-Nokali, Wednesday’s 60-30 win over Wardlaw-Hartridge went as well as he could have hoped.…

  • County asked for land help

    Cranbury asks the Board of Chosen Freeholders for $1.2 million to purchase Fischer property. By: Matthew Kirdahy    The township has asked the county for $1.2 million toward the purchase of the 53-acre Fischer property on South Main Street.    The township plans to acquire the property through condemnation unless an agreement is reached with the landowner.…

  • Daniel Ellsberg’s message is food for thought

    The leaker of the Pentagon Papers says threat of all-out nuclear war still exists. By: Jeff Milgram    It is 4:20 p.m. Tuesday and Daniel Ellsberg, the former U.S. Defense Department official who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, is famished, munching on a granola bar and sipping tea.    A few minutes later,…

  • Letters to the Editor, Feb. 13

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Feb. 13 By: Taxes going up, shed shutting down To the editor:     Seeing Robert Clynes’ front page photo at the soon-to-close Princeton recycling shed (The Packet, Feb. 10) makes me wonder: Why?    With inflation at 1.9 percent, it’s interesting to note that my Princeton Township taxes increased 8.5 percent this…

  • Borough drops charges against eating club president

    Lack of evidence cited following accusations student made alcohol available to a minor. By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton Borough has dropped charges against a former president of a Prospect Avenue eating club, citing lack of evidence.    Cullen Newton, a senior at Princeton University, was charged Dec. 5 with making alcohol available to a minor and maintaining…

  • Township Committee toasts liquor store proposal

    Ordinance for new license introduced, but sale won’t help budget this year. By: David Campbell    The Princeton Township Committee introduced an ordinance Monday night that would permit the issuance of a license for a second liquor store in the municipality.    If approved by the committee, the ordinance would permit the township to sell the license…