Category: archives

  • Camillo’s works by adding warmth to menu

    FAMILY BUSINESSDiane Landis Hackett    When one of my best friends turned 50 recently, I had to find the perfect spot to celebrate on this appropriately shaky day. I needed a place that was not too pricey but cozy. I needed a little haven that offered something we could all use more of on a daily…

  • Voters deserve confidence in ballot process

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Nov. 14 By: Packet Editorial    In the wake of last week’s midterm election, a lot of Democrats are looking forward to the next couple of years for a lot of reasons.    In the foreign-policy arena, they see an opportunity to move President Bush off his "stay-the-course" direction in Iraq, draw a distinction between…

  • Mistakes costly for South football

    Pirates fall in CJ IV to Howell By: Justin Feil    One of the things that had been so consistent all season for the West Windsor-Plainsboro South football team was again there in the opening game of the Central Jersey Group IV playoffs Saturday.    The Pirates were able to give Ryan Lupo running room.    WW-P South…

  • Wrapper’s delight

    Three partners produce creatively-designed gift paper that will rival the present found inside By: Lauren Otis    The house on south Harrison Street is set back behind several large hedges, it’s shingled solidity fitting in well with its neighbors. The only clue to the creative enterprise which resides within is a hand-printed, boldly-patterned American flag hanging…

  • New Jersey seen overcoming its stereotypes

    Despite the state’s problems, professor sees it as the wave of the future for the nation By: Alice Lloyd George    Despite the negative stereotypes propagated over the past few decades, New Jersey is demonstrating a positive direction for the nation as a whole, argued Professor Kenneth Jackson of Columbia University in a lecture at Princeton…

  • Keeping the Spirit

    Ebenezer Scrooge goes to court at Bristol Riverside Theatre. By: Jessica Loughery    About a year or less after 9/11, playwright Mark Brown says he found himself longing for those few weeks after 9/11, but without all the pain and horror. "The outpouring of generosity and humanity was the best I’ve ever seen in my life,"…

  • November 13, 2006

    Carson C. Peck Jr.    Carson C. Peck Jr. of Punta Gorda, Fla., and Pennington died Nov. 9 at St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, Pa.    Mr. Peck was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in San Mateo, Calif.    He was a graduate of Princeton University, Class of 1946, and served his country in the U.…

  • Woven Wonders

    Fiber, baskets, bark, metallic threads and more take form at Grounds For Sculpture’s Toad Hall. By: Megan Sullivan    Within Nancy Kay Anderson’s carefully woven art forms live strength, human spirit and hope. Through these works, the Lambertville resident explores gestures, symbols of religions, birth and death. Inner bark of conifer trees, waxed linen, wool, willow…

  • Exchange program enriching for PHS teacher

    Thirteen months in Germany yields many lessons for Laurence Thebault By: Jake Uitti    Laurence Thébault, a French and German teacher at Princeton High School, left Princeton near the end of July last year to participate for 13 months in a Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program in Germany.    Upon her arrival in Wittenberg, Germany, she spent several…