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  • SALESKick Start Your Career in Media!

       PACKET PUBLICATIONS, A group of award-winning community newspapers has an immediate need for a Classified Ad Salesperson. We’re looking for an energetic person who wants to learn the newspaper ad sales business. The right candidate will have a base salary and a generous commission plan…you could earn a lot of money!    Candidate should be self-motivated,…

  • New soccer goal

    Elks sending sporting equipment to youth in Iraq By: Dick Brinster    EAST WINDSOR — The membership of the Hightstown Elks Lodge is hoping soccer equipment being sent to Iraqi children will help persuade them not to become unwitting pawns of violence for insurgents.    "Soccer is a very popular sport overseas, and we’re hoping the children…

  • Montgomery deputy mayor named to state planning post

    Louise Wilson takes seat on State Planning Commission By: Greg Forester    MONTGOMERY — Through her leadership, Deputy Mayor Louise Wilson says she has tried to help Montgomery absorb increasing population growth while carefully planning the township’s development to minimize negative effects on the township.    With her recent appointment as a member of the State Planning…

  • The day Princeton became an island

    Nor’easter was source of great frustration for motorists and police By: Nick Noreln    When Princeton became a virtual island Monday — both in the sense of limited access and of being surrounded by water — motorists had few alternatives to taking Washington Road in and out of Princeton.    In the days following the flood, emergency…

  • Hightstown residents swamped by nasty nor’easter

    By: Dick Brinster    HIGHTSTOWN — The nor’easter that dumped nearly 5 inches of rain on the area earlier this week created a navigable waterway on a small section of Main Street, had firemen pumping out basements for three days and overwhelmed the sewage treatment plant.    Flooding of basements was rampant throughout the borough, and cellars…

  • WEB EXCLUSIVE: NEHS students protest budget defeat

    Organize walkout Friday afternoon. By: Cara Latham    PLUMSTED — Out of 540 students enrolled at New Egypt High School, any student who showed up for classes Friday also walked out of the building onto the football field at 1 p.m.    The entire study body gathered to protest the community’s defeat of the school budget and…

  • Storied Past

    The Contemporary’s ‘Four Views of Trenton’ offers a glimpse into the capital city’s industrial, Colonial, Victorian and Renaissance history. By: Megan Sullivan    On entering the Blacksmith of Trenton building on North Olden Avenue, the ambience jibed with the April day’s cloudy, rainy weather. Behind a wrought iron gate, two large dogs barked as visitors arrived…

  • Artists’ reception to be held tonight

    By: Lorraine Sedor Watercolorists Unlimited will be hosting an artists’ reception, which is open to the public, this evening from 6 to 8 in the Gourgaud Gallery.       The show opened on April 1 without a Friday night reception because of the holidays, so now is your chance to see the watercolors in this unique show…

  • Letters to the Editor, April 20

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, April 20 Republicans offer change in Princeton To the editor:     We’re heartened by the Packet’s endorsement (April 13) of governance change and competitive democracy, even if offered with a gratuitous swipe at those who actually stand for both—and for whom 45 percent of Township citizens voted in 2005: Princeton Republicans.…