Category: archives

  • Fruit of the vine

    Cream Ridge Winery in Upper Freehold, having found a niche with fruit wine, is helping grow New Jersey’s reputation as a major wine-producer. By: Susan Van Dongen    If everyone appreciated life, work and the bounty of nature as much as Tom Amabile, there might be hope for world peace. Tom Amabile, founder, owner and chief…

  • Kingston residents need to continue the fight

    DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: They must take the future of their village into their own hands.    The village of Kingston is under seige.    But not from enemy troops chasing George Washington. The village is beset by a host of development pressures on its borders and the traffic associated with it.    Traffic moving from Route 1…

  • Washington police chief to retire

    Embattled Police Chief Paul Krych will retire at the end of this year, making the announcement in a letter distributed to township personnel Tuesday. By: Mark Moffa    WASHINGTON — Embattled Police Chief Paul Krych will retire at the end of this year, making the announcement in a letter distributed to township personnel Tuesday.    In a…

  • MAGAZINE: Summer Home & Garden

    It’s summertime and the living is…grilling, gardening and natural. Our Summer Home & Garden edition captures the easy elegance of the leisure season.

  • 2001 Summer Home & Garden

    THE PACKET MAGAZINE: It’s summertime and the living is…grilling, gardening and natural. Our Summer Home & Garden edition captures the easy elegance of the leisure season. Go To Stories

  • FORUM: Kingston

    Should Princeton University be allowed to build 220 apartments on Mapleton Road near the D&R Canal? Should Princeton University be allowed to build 220 apartments on Mapleton Road near the D&R Canal?

  • Red tape foils silly push for toll-free holiday

    EDITORIAL: Bureaucracy will mean long lines at toll booths July 4.    We have one question to ask the folks who’ve been pushing so hard to make July 4 a toll-free day on the Garden State Parkway.    What’s the point?    It isn’t like removing the tolls, even on the richly symbolic occasion of Independence Day, is…

  • Ticket to ride

    The greater Delaware Valley plays host to the biggest week of cycling races on U.S. soil. More than 750,000 people and 300 riders are expected for three men’s events. By: Matt Smith    If you carry a set of hex wrenches with you at all times, have a permanent gait from too many hours spent in…

  • Obituaries

    Earl Knoster    DELAWARE — C. Earl Knoster, 90, died Monday, May 21, at Pine Run Convalescent Center, Doylestown, Pa.    Born and raised in Lambertville, he was a longtime Delaware Township resident.    Mr. Knoster retired after 40 years with Prudential Insurance Co., having been an agent, staff manager and district manager in Lambertville and Flemington.    An…