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  • Take the train, leave Fido

    New pet groomer caters to commuters. By: Gwen McNamara    WEST WINDSOR — Fido or Fluffy in need of a bath, but you don’t have time to get them groomed with your long commute?    Well, now there’s a solution.    Lisa Gandy of Robbinsville recently opened the All Aboard Pet Grooming Station at 19 Washington Road on…

  • Garrett jumping for joy

    PHS junior wins first major horse jumping competition By: Mike Newman    "It feels like I am flying," said Emily Garrett, describing the thrill she gets when she clears a jump with her horse.    Garrett, a Princeton High School junior, had that feeling a lot Aug. 31, when she won her first big horse jumping competition…

  • Two Princeton fund-raisers set for Howard Dean

    By: Jennifer Potash    Howard Dean will return to Princeton for a pair of fund-raisers Sunday.    Dr. Dean, a physician and the former governor of Vermont, is among nine candidates vying for the Democratic nomination.    Kate and Robert Del Tufo will host Dr. Dean for an hour-long reception at their Ober Road residence starting at 10:30…

  • Sept. 15, 4:30 p.m.: Absurd reasoning on gay marriage

    Gays and straights have the same capacity for love. They should have the same rights. By: Hank Kalet    Here is a bit of conversation I overheard this morning that needs rebutting.    A couple of women were discussing marriage — one was planning a wedding, from what I could tell — when they moved from the…

  • Castle of Hearts

    Built by hotel magnate George Boldt as a birthday/valentine’s gift for his wife, Boldt castle embodies the essence of romance. By: Susan Van Dongen The Seagull, a vessel from the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, N.Y., cruises by Boldt Castle.    I’m just a romantic at heart, so I was a pushover for Boldt Castle.    While…

  • Tenth annual Komen ‘Race for the Cure’ set for Oct. 19

       On Sunday, Oct. 19, an expected 25,000 women, men and children from New Jersey and surrounding states will help fight the battle against breast cancer by participating in the 10th annual Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation New Jersey Race for the Cure.    The Breast Cancer Resource Center (BCRC) of the YWCA Princeton will host…

  • Jonathon Edwards focus of new university exhibit

       A new exhibition at Princeton’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Jonathon Edwards, the fiery preacher who became the university’s third president.    He served as president for only 34 days before he died in March 1758 of complications from a smallpox inoculation.    "Jonathon Edwards: The Life of a…

  • Castle of Hearts

    Built by hotel magnate George Boldt as a birthday/valentine’s gift for his wife, Boldt castle embodies the essence of romance. By: Susan Van Dongen The Seagull, a vessel from the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, N.Y., cruises by Boldt Castle.    I’m just a romantic at heart, so I was a pushover for Boldt Castle.    While…

  • Store to connect shoppers to Bombay women artisans

       Ten Thousand Villages in the Princeton Shopping Center will directly connect women shoppers in Princeton to women artisans in Mumbai (Bombay), India, with a photo and a greeting in celebration of Women’s Friendship Day on Saturday.    Women shoppers who visit the store will be invited to add on their own simple decorations and then take…