Category: archives

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Best and worst kitchen gifts

       It’s a wonder I still have left any family, friends or acquaintances who respond to my pleas for fodder for this column. At least once a year I call upon them to share something embarrassing, wacky, perplexing or downright odd about themselves or their loved ones. By: Pat Tanner    In the past, these requests have…

  • Blog update: Sri Lanka and the South Asian Community Association

    Go to Hank Kalet’s Channel Surfing blog for his thoughts on the South Brunswick Post’s unexpected entry into the Sri Lankan civil war. By: Hank Kalet From Channel Surfing: The South Brunswick Post has been dragged into the Sri Lankan civil war. Not that we want to be in the middle of this, but a…

  • Projects win grants

    County gives borough $472,000 for Lakeview: Buckelew Mansion. By: Stephanie Brown    JAMESBURG — Sometimes cash really is the best holiday gift.    The Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders presented the borough with a $472,000 grant on Dec. 22 from the county Open Space, Recreation and Farmland and Historic Preservation Trust Fund.    The money will be…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Wait is worthwhile for Thomas By: Justin Feil    Trevor Thomas has been waiting for this year for a long time.    "More than last year," said the Montgomery High School senior. "Last year didn’t count for much."    When Thomas moved from Washington state after his freshman year, Montgomery High School had no wrestling program. Thomas, who…

  • Schneider: Water and sewer plant drains town

    Divided council OKs base rate hike of $126 By: Dick Brinster    HIGHTSTOWN — Bickering among Borough Council members over an increase in water-sewer rates and discontent among residents over the cost of living in the town could lead to more detailed study of at least one shared service.    That need was underscored by Council President…

  • Downs is up for Tigers

    PU women try to build on win By: Justin Feil    Whitney Downs has had some challenges come her way, and has come back to contribute to the Princeton University women’s basketball team.    The Tigers have faced their share of challenges this season as well, and perhaps with a last-second win over Duquesne last Friday, they…

  • Still no talks, 18 months after Princeton’s dispatching consolidation study

    Township officials show a lack of enthusiasm By: Courtney Gross    Nearly a year and a half after its release, the governing bodies of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township have still not gathered to discuss a study recommending the consolidation of the two municipalities’ emergency dispatching services — a dialogue that had been slated for late…

  • ‘The opposite of ambiguous’

    Remembering the life of Roosevelt’s first female mayor By: Cara Latham    ROOSEVELT — Former Mayor Freda Hepner was scrupulously intent on having an honest government in Roosevelt — so much so that she was even ridiculed by her peers for once refusing coffee from one of the borough’s vendors.    Ms. Hepner, who died Nov. 8…

  • OBITUARIES, Dec. 29, 2006

    Brigitte O. Sinding, Lawrence L. Dupraz, John M. Steeber, Lucienne Marchand, Frank Katona, Joan Singer Brigitte O. Sinding Gallup Poll director, active volunteer     MONTGOMERY — Brigitte Ostermann Sinding died Wednesday at Stonebridge at Montgomery. She was 91.    Born in Berlin, Germany, she learned English as an au pair in England before immigrating to the…