Category: archives

  • Israeli basketball tour to make stop in Princeton

    Visit brings Brody close to home By: Bob Nuse    Tal Brody was a basketball legend in Trenton.    Tal Brody is a basketball legend in Israel.    Brody, who was part of the 1960-61 Trenton Central High basketball team that captured a state championship, had an outstanding career at TCH and then at the University of Illinois.…

  • Route 92 report has put to rest road’s future

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Oct. 10 By: Packet Editorial    For the past 50 years or so, official road maps of central New Jersey have featured a prominent dotted line, running east-west from Monroe Township to South Brunswick, designating a proposed highway that would link the New Jersey Turnpike with Route 1.    Some older versions have the roadway…

  • Library ‘Read to Vote’ effort targets young people

    They may not be able to cast ballots, but they can still be well informed By: Courtney Gross    For the Princeton Public Library, every vote counts.    Even if you’re not legally eligible to participate politically just yet, librarians said it is never too early to get children and adolescents interested in civic engagement.    And in…

  • Letters to the Editor, Oct. 10

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Oct. 10 Radical leadership destroying Democrats To the editor:     After weeks of listening to the far-left Democrats bleating that President Bush has neglected our security and that we are not safe enough, it is time to take a realistic view.    We are faced with a murderous enemy who will do…

  • Princeton Public Library slates program on writing college-admission essays

    By: Courtney    The Princeton Public Library will host an event at 7 p.m. Wednesday with representatives from Princeton University and Rutgers Preparatory Academy to give advice to students beginning the college admissions process.    The event — with Jill Lauck, an associate director of admissions at Princeton University, and Shelley Krause, co-director of college counseling at…

  • Montgomery Boy Scout Troop 850 joins the Army

       "They put a chain across the Hudson River?"    "Yep, they thought they could trap the British warships, and then bombard them with cannons from the cliffs here at West Point."    "Did it work?"    "They never got a chance to find out, because the British never sailed this far up the river," explained Cadet Private James…

  • OBITUARIES, Oct. 10, 2006

    Robert J. Anderson, Peter M. Grosz, Jean C. Bonnici, Hardy K. Pedersen Sr. Robert J. Anderson Retired borough police sergeant     Robert J. Anderson of Princeton died Sunday at home. He was 81.    Born in New Brunswick, he was a lifelong Princeton-area resident.    Mr. Anderson retired after many years of service as a sergeant with…

  • Experienced palates savor taste, variety

    Seniors are more particular and diverse in their tastes than ever before By: Faith Bahadurian    Arugula salad with cherries and pecans; braised rabbit; lobster tortelloni — all of these dishes might be expected on an upscale restaurant menu, but they are, in fact, just a sampling of the extensive dinner menu offered when I recently…

  • Deer bow hunting under way in Montgomery

    By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — Deer bow hunting season has started on various open-space tracts and some large private properties in the township, and will continue through Feb. 17.    Township officials ask that residents take precautions when hiking in posted areas.    Pursuant to its deer-management program, the township is allowing limited deer hunting this fall…