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  • Montgomery High to host active parenting program

    By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Active Parenting of Teens, a program for parents and teachers, will be offered again this winter at Montgomery High School.    The six-session workshop, which begins Jan. 22, encourages open communication between parents and their teenage children. The program aims at helping families solve problems together, build a sense of responsibility…

  • New arts center beginning to take shape

    Paul Robeson Center expected to open in September; fundraising continues By: Courtney Gross    Its steel framework peeks through its protective fencing and pedestrians slyly maneuver around the site’s many obstacles as the expansion and renovation of the Arts Council of Princeton’s new arts center continues to move forward at a stable pace.    The council’s executive…

  • Small business center takes a new direction

    Existing business owners to get more attention at The College of New Jersey facility By: Lauren Otis    The Small Business Development Center at The College of New Jersey in Ewing is taking a new direction for the new year in its business assessment and consulting services and programs, focussing more on one-to-one strategic assistance planning,…

  • Momentum is with PHS hockey squad

    Little Tiger girls stop unbeaten foe By: Justin Feil    The Princeton High School girls’ ice hockey team had momentum after sweeping a pair of games from Holton Arms to open the weekend.    Shady Side Academy had momentum after a 3-1 win over Princeton Day School on Saturday.    Sunday, the two unbeatens met and it was…

  • OBITUARIES, Jan. 9, 2007

    Martin Kruskal, Eleanor H. Sullivan, David P. Crawford, Anna D. Helmick, Eleanor R. Ewing, George M. Chaikin Martin Kruskal Princeton University mathematician     Martin Kruskal of Princeton, one of the world’s pre-eminent applied mathematicians and mathematical physicists, died Dec. 26 in Princeton. He was 81.    He was a scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory…

  • Princeton University student aims to help developing world eat, drink

    A push for a low-tech solar oven and water filter. By: Jake Uitti    Keeping with the Princeton University tradition of "in the nation’s service and in the service of all nations," Princeton University junior Ishani Sud has been actively working with people in impoverished countries to create low-cost devices — like water filters and solar…

  • SAVE extending its geographic reach

    Animal shelter takes a big bite out of overcrowding elsewhere By: Courtney Gross    Copper, a brown and white foxhound, may not have a home yet, but he is certainly far from where he started — quite literally.    As Copper casually, if not clumsily, trotted thorough the entrance to SAVE-A Friend to Homeless Animals last week,…

  • Avoid 401(k) mistakes and you’re sitting pretty

    IT’S YOUR BUSINESS Aaron Skloff Q: My wife’s 401(k) was devastated when the New Jersey technology company she worked for hit hard times. Now, I am worried about the 401(k) offered by the New Jersey pharmaceutical company I work for. What are the common mistakes people make in their 401(k)’s and how can we avoid…

  • Enjoy winter’s balmy breezes while they last

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Jan. 9 By: Packet Editorial    How can anyone in the Princeton area not be inspired to offer a comment or two these days about the weather.    Even for those who love Princeton in the spring — the daffodils, the dogwood, the burst of color in Prospect Garden, the delicate pear trees abloom along…