Category: archives

  • 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…

  • MHS puts scare in SCT top seed Bernards

    Trafidlo’s early goal sparks Cougars to near upset By: Justin Feil    Montgomery High’s Jeff Trafidlo heard all the incentive he needed from the referee when he walked out to midfield for the captain’s meeting before squaring off against Somerset County Tournament top seed Bernards on Saturday.    "He told them that he didn’t want to see…

  • Buildings of the future to be studied at forum

    Local environmental commission pushes "green building" By: David Campbell    The Princeton Environmental Commission will host a forum on "green building" to explore new approaches to design and construction that can enhance the environmental and economic performance of commercial buildings in the region.    Princeton architect Heidi Fictenbaum of the firm Ford Farewell Mills and Gatsch and…

  • Goblin? Witch? Power Ranger? Ziggy Stardust?

    Find your new identity at the Costume Scene. By: Scott Morgan    The woman, not too tall and not too blonde, walked past the guns, swords and wigs, and confessed she needed some hats, though she didn’t say why. All she said was that she needed 10 of them, all of the wizard variety.    While she…