Category: archives

  • HHS places third in MCT

    WRESTLING: Despite no champions in any of the 14 weight classes, the Rams placed third in the Mercer County tournament behind co-champions Hamilton and West Windsor-Plainsboro South. By: Kyle Moylan    Depending on one’s point of view, either no one on the Hightstown High School wrestling team came away from the Mercer County Tournament as a…

  • Monmouth County

    Click on the links below for Monmouth County Camps & Summer Programs. The listings are organized alphabetically and separated as follows: A-I   |   M-Y

  • Thommy G’s

    This bank-turned-gourmet-restaurant has caused a reverse migration of jaded Philadelphians to Burlington for chef Thommy Geneviva’s classic Italian cuisine with a bit of New Orleans. By: Sally Friedman Thommy G’s 354 High St. Burlington (609) 239-8133 Food: Very Good Cuisine: Italian with a bit of New Orleans Service: Excellent Prices: Upper moderate-expensive Ambiance: Elegant converted…

  • The fabric of family

    Nassau Presbyterian exhibits heirloom clothing, old and new By: Jillian Kalonick    In the 1880s, when Eleanor Fowler Blandford wore her Schiffli lace crinoline dress, she probably had no idea that it would be passed through the hands of three more generations, and one day exhibited as an antique.    The dress belonged to the great-grandmother of…

  • Compromise might come just in time

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Feb. 8 By: Packet Editorial    The best actors have it. The great home run hitters and base stealers have it. So do orators and orchestra conductors, quarterbacks and wide receivers, Swiss watches and finely tuned engines.    It’s called timing.    Perfect timing is a beautiful thing, whether it comes in the form of a…

  • Short and Catchy

    Comic opera at the Delaware Valley College Visiting Artists Series Feb. 10 in Doylestown, Pa. By: Daniel Shearer    They called it "the war of the buffoons." A number of composers, hoping to capitalize on the popularity of a new style of comic opera, were writing their own works and trying to pass them off as…

  • Teacher, 21, charged in bomb threat

    Intended to have the school close early for the day By: Al Wicklund    A 21-year-old teacher was charged with causing a false public alarm at the Remsterville Learning Center on Prospect Plains Road after school officials found a bomb threat in the school at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 23.    Nicole Caruso of Inwood Avenue was charged…

  • Surgeon general wants fight against fat

    American children must get away from televisions and computers says David Satcher. By: Jeff Milgram    American children must get away from their computers and television sets and get back in gym class, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher said Thursday at Princeton University.    Speaking at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Dr. Satcher,…

  • EDITORIAL

    Local budgets face a season of uncertainty    It’s local budget-preparation time and municipal and school officials are up to their elbows in ledger books.    It’s a thankless but an important job, one that creates the blueprint for the coming year, setting spending levels and arranging priorities and balancing the need to raise revenue with an…