Category: archives

  • CHANNEL SURFING

    A weblog, or online journal, by the paper’s managing editor. Channel Surfing has now become www.KaletBlog.com Channel Surfing explained Hank Kalet’s bio By: Hank Kalet Channel Surfing

  • Letters to the Editor, Nov. 3

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Nov. 3 Democracy is not a spectator sport To the editor:     The League of Women Voters of the Princeton Area would like to remind your readers to plan on voting in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 7. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.    Please study…

  • Students invited to take part in Poetry Out Loud

       Public and private high schools in New Jersey are invited to participate in the second-annual "New Jersey Poetry Out Loud" program, a new take on poetry and a chance to represent the state in a national competition.    The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, along with its partners the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey,…

  • Princeton Public Library hosts Canadian author Lauren B. Davis

    By: Jake Uitti    The Princeton Public Library will hold a discussion Thursday at 7:30 p.m., sponsored by Princeton University’s Canadian Studies Program, featuring author Lauren B. Davis in conversation with Princeton Professor Maria DiBattista.    Ms. Davis is the acclaimed and best-selling author of "The Radiant City," which was short-listed this year for the prestigious Rogers…

  • State berth another step in building a program

    By: Ken Weingartner    When the Monroe Township High football team won seven games last season, establishing a school record, and nearly qualified for the state sectional playoffs for the first time in history, it was one of the feel-good stories of the year.    In their first 29 years, the Falcons had just eight seasons of…

  • OBITUARIES, Nov. 3, 2006

    Clifford Geertz, Barbara L. Sutton, Dr. Lloyd J. Nimaroff, William E. Speers Jr. Clifford Geertz Cultural anthropologist at Institute     Clifford Geertz of Princeton, an eminent scholar in the field of cultural anthropology known for his extensive research in Indonesia and Morocco, died Tuesday following heart surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.…

  • Pay-to-play plan for pupils placed on board agenda

    By: Dick Brinster    The concept of requiring students to pay to participate in sports and other extracurricular activities, once considered all but dead, is now set for discussion by the East Windsor Regional school board, which seems intent on doing all it can to avoid another defeated budget.    "If the budget is defeated again and…

  • PU looks to bounce back against Penn

    Tigers host Quakers on Saturday By: Justin Feil    The Princeton University football team lost at the hands of then-Ivy League last place Cornell last week.    The University of Pennsylvania lost in overtime for the second straight week, both times when they failed to score a point in overtime.    The two teams with plenty of prove…

  • MHS girls win first CJ IV game

    WW-P South, North edged in state play By: Justin Feil    The state tournament brings with it heartache and euphoria, and it’s a thin line that can separate the two.    The Montgomery High girls’ soccer team won in its Central Jersey Group IV debut, 3-0, over Sayreville Memorial on Monday. The No. 2 Cougars advanced to…