Category: archives

  • Letters to the editor

    For the Jan. 3 issue By: Sarafin should resign council position To the editor:     First, I would like to wish the council and everyone a belated Merry Christmas and a very happy new year.    Now, I come wearing two hats, first as a senior citizen, then as a veteran who served in Korea as…

  • Milton Shapanka

       Milton Shapanka, 80, of Monroe, died Tuesday, Dec. 24, at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan, N.Y.    Born in Jamesburg, Mr. Shapanka lived there until moving first to East Brunswick and then to Monroe three years ago. He was the owner and operator of JASCO Heating and Air-Conditioning Company, in Jamesburg. Mr. Shapanka never…

  • Budgets and geese prominent in 2002

    This is the first in a series of four articles looking at events from 2002 as reported in the Windsor-Hights Herald. By: Mark Moffa The following dates reflect the issue in which the story was published. Jan. 4     Democrats Dan Buriak and Rick Pratt joined the Hightstown Borough Council at the council’s reorganization meeting.…

  • The case for resolutions

    Stuck for ideas on resolutions? Here is a new twist on the typical goals for the New Year. By: Jamie Simpson The ball has dropped, the festivities are over and 2003 has begun.    Walking down Main Street this New Year’s Eve, it was my objective to find out what the residents of Cranbury had in…

  • Supermarket set to expand

    Local Stop & Shop will have a new look By: Al Wicklund MONROE — With a proposed expansion approved by the Planning Board, work on the Stop & Shop supermarket in the Concordia Shopping Center probably will be on the schedule for early this year.    Meagan Pratt of Stop & Shop’s Public Affairs Department said…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Dysart filling higher expectations By: Justin Feil    Claire Dysart and the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North girls’ basketball team have a lot in common in that both are being held to higher expectations this season.    "Last year," said WW-PN head coach Brett Charleston, "she came off the bench for us. She did a really nice job.…

  • Horse farm makes strides in therapy

    A look at a special program that uses horseback riding as a form of physical therapy By: Al Wicklund    MONROE — A blind date not only led Laurie Landy of Federal Road to marriage and a family, but also to greater fulfillment in her work as a therapist.    She married her date, Samuel Landy, and…

  • Letters to the Editor, Jan. 3

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Jan. 3 By: Project is asset to borough, taxpayers To the editor:    The following is a response to an open letter from James Firestone, which appeared in the Dec. 31, 2002 edition of The Packet:    Three years ago, the Borough Council, the Township Committee and the Library Trustees came to an…

  • DISPATCHES; 2002: it wasn’t a very good year

    By: Hank Kalet Let’s say goodbye to 2002.    And good riddance.    Yes, we should be thankful that the year just ended lacked that one, defining moment, that single signifying event — such as the terror attacks of 2001.    But we should not fool ourselves into thinking that 2002 was anything but a difficult and troubling…