Category: archives

  • Princeton Packet Baseball Player of the Year

    WW-PS’ Woodhull shows full repertoire in final year By: Bob Nuse    During what turned out to be an outstanding high school baseball career, Tim Woodhull never really got a chance to show what he could do if he were completely healthy.    A shoulder injury prevented him from pitching at all for West Windsor-Plainsboro South as…

  • June 10, 5 p.m.: Top teams

    OK. Let the arguments begin. By: Hank Kalet    A wonderful feature on ESPN.com‘s Sports Nation page that is guaranteed to keep baseball junkies like myself talk for weeks.    http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sportsnation/neyer/Rob Neyer gives us his all-time teams, a starting lineup for each Major League Baseball teams.    I have some issues. I’d take:    1. Jimmie Foxx and his…

  • New sidewalks are cause for stroll at Littlebrook School

    By: David Campbell    Parents for a Safer Walk to School, a Princeton advocacy group, plans to hold a walk Wednesday to commemorate the new sidewalks on Rollingmead that were built to provide a safe pedestrian thoroughfare for children at Littlebrook Elementary School.    The walk is scheduled to begin 3 p.m. Wednesday, rain or shine. Walkers…

  • June 9, 2:40 p.m.: The weekend in review

    Some great reading from the weekend’s papers. By: Hank Kalet    Some good reading in this weekend’s New York Times.    • On Saturday in the Arts & Ideas section, Daphne Eviatar offers a look at the criticisms of the World Bank — primarily the bank’s willingness to deal with corrupt and dangerous regimes looking to exploit their…

  • June 9, 2:42 p.m.: O’Reilly on Cronkite

    The conservative spinmeister takes on Mr. Cronkite. By: Hank Kalet    Bill O’Reilly has spoken.    Walter Cronkite is a liberal and that means everything he says, everything he’s ever said, everything he’s ever stood for in the news business must be dismissed.    That’s the gist of today’s column in The New York Daily News. The Fox…

  • Robert Calvin Gaver

       Robert Calvin Gaver, 64, died Saturday.    Born in Greencastle, Pa., he lived most of his adult life in Fayetteville, N.Y. and Hopewell.    He received a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University, a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and completed his post doctorate work at the University of Illinois.    He worked from Bristol-Myers…

  • June 9, 2:38 p.m.: Country voice

    A legend of country music. By: Hank Kalet    No Depression magazine has slowly been getting its back issues onto the Web. One of the most recent additions (issue number 15 from May-June 1998) features a wonderful story on the great Ralph Stanley, the country singer and banjo player whose voice is featured so prominently in…

  • Accident shuts down Route 206

    Truck strikes utility pole and traffic blocked for eight hours.    Route 206 was shut down early Monday afternoon and into the evening after a Waste Management garbage truck struck a utility pole in the northbound lane between Quaker and Edgerstoune roads.    The predictable result was monumental traffic jams on the highway as well as Mercer…

  • Changing Sky

    To paint in nature, artist Robert MaGaw knows he must stay out in a storm. By: Susan Van Dongen "Late April Snow," by Robert MaGaw.    While Robert MaGaw speaks by phone about his art, a thunderstorm sweeps through the area near his home studio in Bushkill, Pa., close to the Delaware Water Gap. The dialogue…