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  • Mayor Reed to serve on safety task force

    State panel will study highway safety and driver distraction. By: Jennifer Potash    Princeton Borough Mayor Marvin Reed has been appointed by Gov. James E. McGreevey to a special state task force that will study highway safety and driver distraction.    The new task force’s mission includes studying how communication devices, such as cellphones, can distract drivers.…

  • Jacobi, PDS triumph in Prep B

    Junior wins first singles title to clinch Panthers’ first team title since 1985 By: Justin Feil    When Alexis Jacobi sits down next September to figure out her goals for her senior year at Princeton Day School, she won’t have to think too hard. After winning the Prep B first singles title Sunday and helping the…

  • Community Guide 2002 East Edition

      INSIDE THE GUIDE WHETHER you are a newcomer or longtime resident, The Guide brings vital news about your community. If you are in search of information about local government, schools, houses of worship, volunteer groups and more, The Guide is your source. DOWNLOAD THE PDF FILE (72 Pages — 2,813KB) Get The Free Acrobat…

  • Oates adds Sandburg to awards list

    Local writer, professor cited for lifetime achievement.    Joyce Carol Oates, writer and Princeton University humanities professor, has received the 2002 Carl Sandburg Literary Award for lifetime achievement.    A prolific author, Ms. Oates has written novels, poetry, drama and literary criticism.    She won the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature in 1998,…

  • Security officer hired to help thwart hackers

    After being embroiled in a hacking controversy involving a Yale admissions Web site earlier this year, Princeton University wants to make sure something like that doesn’t happen to Old Nassau. By: Jeff Milgram    Princeton University, embroiled in a hacking controversy involving a Yale admissions Web site earlier this year, wants to make sure something like…

  • ‘Rum and Onions’

    Country dancers kick up heels for 23rd costume party. By: Michael Redmond    Back in the day, recalled Marge Scott of Princeton, the committee of 11 who was organizing Princeton Country Dancers’ first Halloween costume dance couldn’t agree on a name for the affair. "There was ‘Jersey Lightning,’ I think, and ‘Apple Turnover,’ and many other…

  • Student dies during class trip

    Apparent seizure strikes 13-year-old on a rope obstacle course. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — A popular, 13-year-old student died unexpectedly Thursday morning during a Montgomery Middle School class trip to the Delaware Water Gap area, after suffering an apparent seizure.    Nicholas Posten, an eighth-grader, was about to tackle a rope obstacle as part of a…

  • Letters to the Editor, Oct. 29

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Oct. 29 By: Election Day offers referendum on deer To the editor:     In her letter (The Packet, Oct. 25), Dena Arrison, a resident of Lawrence, writes that "a vast majority of community residents" are opposed to the use of lethal measures to reduce the size of the deer herd. But…

  • PDS’ title hopes end in shootout

    Panthers lose to Pennington in thriller By: Bob Nuse    The thing Malcolm Murphy wanted to see most from his team during his first season as Princeton Day School boys’ soccer coach was progress.    And even though the Panthers were eliminated from the state Prep B tournament with a shootout loss on Friday to a Pennington…