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  • Princeton High grads given marching orders for bright future

    A call to help solve the world’s problems. By: Jeff Milgram    Work to keep "old and young alike out of the clutches of poverty," Gene Budig, retired Air Force general and past president of the American League, told the 262 seniors at Princeton High School’s graduation Monday night.    "No one benefits when a child is…

  • Morgan’s Instinet win is a family affair

    Tops Snead, Jenkins by two strokes to claim second straight championship By: Justin Feil    It wasn’t the typical Father’s Day for Gil Morgan’s three daughters Molly, Maggie and Melanie.    But by the end of Sunday, none of them had a complaint as dad hugged first his wife, Jeanine, then each of the young women in…

  • Fresh seasonal produce makes for tasty dining

    IN THE KITCHEN by Ann Harwood: A harvest of summer-light recipes using locally grown fresh vegetables, topped off with creative serving suggestions.    It all starts with asparagus in the spring — the local fresh vegetable season, I mean. From April through October, when the last of the garden squash are harvested, I tend to center…

  • Springdale duo wins TDGA Partners tourney

    Gianacaci, Byer roll in Better Ball By: Bob Nuse    A morning full of rain Sunday, along with it being Father’s Day, meant Jim Byer and John Gianacaci were going to need to work quickly in order to finish the Trenton District Golf Association Partners’ Better Ball Tournament at Mercer Oaks.    Not only did the two…

  • Teacher at PHS awarded prestigious fellowship

    For the past three years, John Baxter has been teaching government and law at Princeton High School. In the fall, he also will be in a classroom, but this time as a student, as he starts a master’s program at Rutgers-Newark, thanks to a James Madison Fellowship. By: Jeff Milgram For the past three years,…

  • Morgan’s Instinet win is a family affair

    Tops Snead, Jenkins by two strokes to claim second straight championship By: Justin Feil    It wasn’t the typical Father’s Day for Gil Morgan’s three daughters Molly, Maggie and Melanie.    But by the end of Sunday, none of them had a complaint as dad hugged first his wife, Jeanine, then each of the young women in…

  • Princeton Packet Girls’ Lacrosse Player of the Year

    Driscoll’s will to win showed in Stuart’s success By: Justin Feil    In four years, Sarah Driscoll has seen a lot of change, all of it good, in the Stuart Country Day School lacrosse team.    It didn’t happen overnight, but by the time Driscoll graduated, there was a new positive outlook at Stuart. And thanks to…

  • University has new plans for historic buildings

    East Pyne Hall and Chancellor Green will be renovated and restored. By: Jeff Milgram    A complicated construction project scheduled to begin this summer will renovate two 100-year-old Princeton University buildings and create a new environment for the humanities departments.    East Pyne Hall will be renovated and expanded to become the new home of the Andlinger…

  • Smart growth is best hope to build future

    PACKET EDITORIAL, June 19 By: Packet Editorial    Watching the development of central New Jersey for the past 20 years or so has been an upsetting experience for a lot of longtime residents, who have witnessed what was once a peaceful and largely rural landscape transformed into sprawling suburbia, complete with unsightly strip malls, mammoth office…