Category: archives

  • PU piles on another Ivy baseball title

    Chernoff, Tiger seniors go 3 for 4 in crowns By: Justin Feil    Mike Chernoff went to bed Saturday night dreaming of an Ivy League baseball title, and woke up on the bottom of a pile celebrating his third championship in four years Sunday afternoon.    "I got up real early today and I was thinking about…

  • ‘Ultimate Fitness,’ scientifially

    Gina Kolata, Princeton resident and New York Times science reporter, writes book on exercise and health. By: Jillian Kalonick    Named for the ultimate test of endurance, the Mount Everest climb at Evolutions Fitness in East Windsor was a challenge that New York Times science reporter and workout buff Gina Kolata could not resist.    "I thought,…

  • Money questions raised for Route 1 area bypass

    As plans progress for the former Millstone Bypass, questions remain if there is sufficient financing to carry out the project. By: David Campbell    After two years of mediation, the draft environmental review of the former Millstone Bypass is finally in the hands of the Federal Highway Administration, which is expected to approve the document sometime…

  • ‘Li’l Abner’

    Bucks County Playhouse offers this rarely staged musical, based on Al Capp’s popular comic strip. By: Stuart Duncan    Musicals based on cartoon strips are a genuine rarity, partly because of the difficulties of adapting a storyline that can satisfy, and partly because it is difficult to find actors close enough in appearance to the drawings…

  • May 13, 2:25 p.m.: Gloomy forecasts ahead

    Bursting bubbles could result in a dark economic future. By: Hank Kalet    The standard economic analysis these days ties the faltering economy to the stock market, assuming that when the stock market rebounds everything will be OK and we’ll start seeing the kind of growth we experienced during the 1990s.    I hope they are right.…

  • All in the family

    Greenwood House honors the Siegels of Princeton. By: Jennifer Potash    A single family with several members serving a nonprofit organization may not seem unusual, but how many such families are on first-name basis with many of the organization’s clients?    The Siegel family of Princeton is, and they will be feted Sunday at the Trenton War…

  • Reversal of roles fine with MHS

    King relieves in Cougar baseball’s SCT win By: Bob Nuse    All of a sudden, the Montgomery High baseball team finds itself in the favorite’s role.    After a weekend of upsets in the Somerset County Tournament, the third-seeded Cougars are the only one of the top four seeds that will play in Monday’s SCT semifinals at…

  • Chinese food on steroids

    IN THE KITCHEN:  When the weather turns hot, I crave food to match. In tropical climates all over the world, chilies and other intensely flavored seasonings help the body relieve excess heat in the form of, well, sweat. Don’t be offended — think of it as the natural remedy for a hot day.    On a…

  • PHS girls third at county track meet

    Crowley hoping for continued success in states By: Justin Feil    Alison Crowley doesn’t want Saturday’s Mercer County Track Championships to be the last time she faced the girls of Trenton High this season. But the only way for the Princeton High junior to get another shot at them is by making the Meet of Champions.…