Category: archives

  • Warnings issued as heat wave swamps region

    The level of ozone has prompted a "code-red" alert. By: David Campbell    The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has issued an excessive heat warning due to an expected heat index reading of 100 to 105 degrees today and temperatures in the mid 90s the entire week.    The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission has issued…

  • Dining Out

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  • Finding the Perfect Principal- The Mission to Replace PHS’s Top Administrator

    After a month of interviewing, the Princeton Regional School Board has selected PHS’s new principal. By:Robert Sgobbo The end of the 2000-2001 school year concluded with the departure of PHS’s principal, Dr. John Kazmark. Kazmark’s three-year position was marked by a series of accomplishments, such as creating the programs of credit completion and summer school.…

  • OBITUARIES, August 7, 2001

    Richard E. Honig, Leopoldine Hutter, Beatrice A. Gallagher. Richard E. Honig Retired Sarnoff scientist    HAVERFORD, Pa. — Richard Edward Honig died July 31 at home. He was 84.    Born in Gottingen, Germany, he was a longtime resident of Princeton, moving to Haverford in 1989.    He was a staff member of the David Sarnoff Research Center,…

  • The ‘Ultimate’ experience

    Frisbee players of all ages find their bliss on Mercer fields. By: Justin Schlawin    In the beginning, there was a pie tin. Just a pie tin.    During World War II, soldiers threw pie tins for fun. The problem with pie tins, however, was that they would not only make a racket, they would break or…

  • RCN Teaches Summer Programs About Television Broadcasting

    On August 3, 2001 three summer programs visited the RCN Corporation in Allentown, PA. By: Robert Sgobbo The RCN Corporation welcomed Packet Publications Journalism Camp, Princeton Summer Youth Program, and a middle school journalism group to their site on August 3rd at Allentown, PA. RCN provided the groups with tours of the facility’s television studio,…

  • Harry Potter Sparks New Magic

    Having remained on the NY Times Best Seller List since its publication, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is still attracting attention. By:Miriam Bocarsly       J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is still drawing attention.       The American author, Nancy Stouffer, claims that Rowling stole many ideas from her 1980’s series about a young boy…

  • NiE 5K Fun Run Sprints Towards Newspaper Education

    By:Miriam Bocarsly       In addition to locals, people traveled from Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Utah to attend Packet Publications first Newspapers in Education Fun Run.       Held at the Mercer County Park near the marina, the 5k run, was the first of what organizers hope will become an annual event.       According to Newspapers in Education’s (NiE)…

  • Scardella, Denise taking different paths

    Locals at Hockey Night in Boston By: Bob Nuse    This summer, David Scardella and John Garrett Denise have taken quite different paths in their preparation for the upcoming high school ice hockey season.    But this week, those paths will cross as the two players compete for the Mid-Atlantic team in the Hockey Night in Boston…