Category: archives

  • July 16, 2002

    By: infoUSA/Donnelley Marketing of Ames, Iowa In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to include all reported transactions, Packet Online does not guarantee its completeness or independently verify its contents. Avenel, Katherine Dabareiner, 1004 Madaline Dr, $189,900, 12/15/01 Avenel, Joyel Edmonds, 1194 Rahway…

  • Trancendental Visions

    The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts hosts a dazzling display of American landcapes. By: Anne Hunter    Nature was a potent image for America in the first decades of its history. For citizens of the young democracy, wilderness loomed as a dramatic contrast to the staid, cultivated, English countryside. Artists rushed to record the exciting…

  • Owners stitch together skills to operate successful shop

    Kathleen Gittleman and Rachel Herr opened Pins and Needles, which sells quilting, knitting and needlepoint supplies. By: Kim Nortman    Kathleen Gittleman saw a void in the market.    An avid sewer and knitter, she has not found convenient access to good quality materials in Princeton for 10 years. So she decided to start her own business.…

  • Put the brakes on charges for cable service

    PACKET EDITORIAL, July 16    What is it about items that enter our homes through wires that causes us to hate them so?    It used to be telephones. For decades, the most reviled institution in America was the phone company. Sometimes, we couldn’t get a dial tone. Sometimes, we could get a dial tone but the…

  • Shaw continues ‘to fight the good fight’

    Judith Shaw of Princeton, a principal of a Trenton lobbying firm, was named one of the 36 top women executives in the state. By: George Frey    It seems being the first woman to do the job was not as important to Judith Shaw as doing an important job well.    Ms. Shaw made history as the…

  • 200,000 brush strokes

    The ‘new’ McCaffrey’s to showcase a muralist’s Princeton By: Jillian Kalonick    After a 20-year break from the art world, something happened to get Preston Harrison and his wife, Sharon, back into painting: Their television broke. Instead of getting it fixed, the Harrisons turned back to the skills they studied in college, but Mr. Harrison found…

  • Self-guided leadership drives executive

    Dorothea Coccoli Palsho, who retired as vice president of strategic marketing at Dow Jones, was honored by the Executive Women of New Jersey. By: George Frey    It has always been important to Dorothea Coccoli Palsho to be a leader and to always be her own guide in business and in life.    Ms. Palsho, who retired…

  • Soccer field woes frustrate Montgomery officials

    Restoration of Mill Pond fields is set back. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — Members of the Township Committee were livid this week at the news that seven soccer fields currently undergoing $900,000 in renovations will not be suitable for play this September.    A recent survey revealed that efforts to re-plant and fertilize six of the…

  • Montgomery plans to update natural resources inventory

    The information is crucial to long-term planning, the mayor says. By: Steve Rauscher    MONTGOMERY — The Township Committee is expected to commission an update of the township’s natural resource inventory this week, the first since 1984.    The report will reassess the township’s geology, water and soil quality, floodplain coverage, critical habitats and wetlands, among other…