Category: archives

  • Screen Gems

    Composer Frank Lewin has released a collection of his film and TV music from the ’60s. By: Anthony Stoeckert    If you watched television in the 1960s, there’s a good chance you’ve heard the music of Frank Lewin. Before the industry headed out to California in the middle of that decade, Mr. Lewin wrote music for…

  • Park art on display at gallery

    Landscapes from warmer seasons open to public viewing By: Lacey Korevec    Though the chilly month of December, residents can stop by the Gourgaud Gallery to warm up with some paintings of beautiful spring, summer and fall landscapes in Cranbury.    Pieces chosen from artists who attended the Cranbury Art Council’s Art in the Park sessions will…

  • Hip-hop go-getter

    Princeton High senior’s goal is creation of art, music center in Trenton By: Jake Uitti    Princeton High School senior Oren Rosenbaum is in the process of creating an after-school hip-hop arts and music center in Trenton, titled Ptones Records, which potentially could involve a platinum-selling hip-hop artist as its spokesman.    "We are in the process…

  • Girls Soccer Player of the Year

    McClintic encore helps MHS stay strong By: Justin Feil    Encores to record-setting seasons are difficult to pull off.    Lauren McClintic did it though, and as a result the Montgomery High School girls’ soccer team didn’t miss a beat this fall.    "I definitely thought this year we outplayed ourselves," said the Cougars junior forward. "I was…

  • Former Gov. Whitman to give talk at Mary Jacobs Library

    By: Jake Uitti    ROCKY HILL — Former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman will be making a special appearance 7:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at the Mary Jacobs Library.    The author of a best-selling political memoir, "It’s My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America," she is expected to talk…

  • Letters to the Editor, Nov. 24

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Nov. 24 Transit proposals make good sense To the editor:    In Tuesday’s Packet, letter writer Barry Goldblatt wonders about the return of traffic circles and guest columnist Mark Peel is depressed when contemplating the planned construction of any more roads.    The first writer is understandably confused, since New Jersey has been…

  • Include Dinky in a regional transit system

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Nov. 24 By: Packet Editorial    Princeton’s venerable Dinky — the little train that makes the shortest regularly scheduled railroad trip in the United States, shuttling back and forth between University Place in Princeton Borough and the Princeton Junction train station in West Windsor — faces an uncertain future.    Not that this is anything…

  • Two Woodrow Wilson graduates receive alumni honors

       Two graduates of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs who have devoted their careers to public service have been selected as the 2007 recipients of the university’s top honors for alumni.    Paul Sarbanes, a 1954 graduate and a five-term U.S. senator from Maryland, has been chosen for the Woodrow Wilson Award. Julius…

  • Mixed views on Black Friday

    For some Princeton merchants it is ho ho ho, but for others, ho hum By: Courtney Gross    Owners and managers of retail, jewelry or specialty shops in Princeton Township and Princeton Borough don’t seem to be holding their collective breath for the usual nonstop shopping bonanzas of today’s Black Friday.    For many stores in Princeton,…