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  • Place of Dreams

    The other worldly oil paintings of singer-turned-artist Annie Haslam are featured at Image Makers Gallery in New Hope, Pa. By: Jim Boyle "Melinka" (above) and "Majesty of Love" (below) by Annie Haslam, part of a new exhibit at Image Makers in New Hope, Pa.    It’s a quiet neighborhood, just like any other suburb in America.…

  • Firehouse to open up for public

    Residents to get chance to see newest truck. By: Matt Kirdahy    Fire safety has been a longstanding tradition in Cranbury as well as a concern of its volunteer firefighters.    To keep that tradition running, the Cranbury volunteer firefighters will kickoff national Fire Prevention Week on Oct. 5, from noon to 4 p.m., with an open…

  • WW Lions Club holding patriotic essay contest

       WEST WINDSOR — The West Windsor Lions Club is sponsoring a "Why I Love America" essay contest for students living in both West Windsor and Plainsboro.    The contest is open to students in grades one through 12. First- and second-graders are asked to enter a picture or drawing. Participants in grades three through 12 can…

  • ‘Happy birthday to you…’

    Hightstown Borough to mark 150th anniversary of incorporation as a municipality with street fair. By: Sarah Winkelman    HIGHTSTOWN — The 150th anniversary of the borough’s incorporation is fast approaching. To celebrate the big event, the borough will host a street fair in downtown Hightstown on Saturday, Oct. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.    The…

  • Hun goes another way to top

    Raider girls’ tennis captures third straight county crown By: Justin Feil    It was a different format at this year’s county tennis tournament but the same result as the previous two years. Hun won.    Two years ago, The Hun School girls’ tennis team won the Mercer County Tournament without winning even one flight. Last year, the…

  • Piercing the gloom

    National Depression Screening Day offers hope to sufferers. By: Cynthia Cannon    "Brooding" was just another adjective I used to define the "misery is chic" attitude I subscribed to as a teenager.    In those days, it didn’t take much to emerge from my self-indulgence to recognize that Mom wasn’t feeling well. She’d move from singing Burt…

  • Miller, Jacobsen make a ‘special’ visit to Forsgate

    By: Matthew Kirdahy    Two of professional golf’s most renowned players shot a round at the Charles Banks Course at Forsgate Country Club in Monroe on Monday.    They came. They swung. They made the game look easy and all for a worthy cause.    PGA Tour Legend Johnny Miller, 56, and PGA Tour player and TV personality…

  • Open space comes only at high cost

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 3 By: Packet Editorial    In what might best be described as the don’t-tax, don’t-spend era of government in America, there is at least one category New Jersey has carved out for exemption from this otherwise abiding political philosophy: open-space preservation.    The economy may be tanking, unemployment may be skyrocketing, property taxes may…

  • OBITUARIES, Oct. 3, 2003

    Elizabeth C. Dilworth, Harriet J. Lyding, Franklyn Schoenberg, Jack A. Rimalover, Catherine D. Tylus, James H. Clingham, Anne Judge, Matthew Gault. Elizabeth C. Dilworth Helped found PDS     Elizabeth "Bunny" Cushing Dilworth died on Tuesday at the University Medical Center at Princeton of congestive heart failure. She was 83.    Mrs. Dilworth was active in a…