Category: archives
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Smokey Bones
Cheerful, professional staff serve up tasty, fall-off-the-bone barbecue at the Langhorne, Pa., location of this national chain. By: Amy Brummer When it comes to the letters BBQ, I’m drawn like a moth to the flame of a charcoal pit. So while it is rare that I review a national chain restaurant, I just couldn’t get…
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Xu leading Knights to faster finishes
Senior captain helping young North cross country By: Justin Feil HOPEWELL Julia Xu has been a perfect captain for the West Windsor-Plainsboro North girls’ cross country team. The Knights are young this season, and it’s part of their struggles. But Xu is living proof that things can only get better and is trying to…
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Letters to the Editor, Oct. 6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Oct. 6 New trail will provide better access to woods To the editor: On behalf of the Board of Friends of Princeton Open Space, I write in response to your brief report (The Packet, Oct. 3) of the Planning Board’s approval to subdivide out .8 acres from a 3.2-acre lot…
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Series of programs to be hosted by Plainsboro preserve
By: Molly Petrilla PLAINSBORO The Plainsboro Preserve will host a series of free programs on weekends through late November. In all, seven family events will take place on Saturdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the preserve. On Oct. 14, participants in a "Fall Foliage Forest Foray" will collect leaves while hearing about why…
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Montgomery slates flu vaccination clinic for Nov. 8
By: Jake Uitti MONTGOMERY A free flu vaccination clinic for senior citizens has been scheduled for November, with pre-registration already open. The township’s Health Department encourages people over 65, and any adult with chronic health problems, to get an annual flu shot. A flu vaccination clinic is slated for Nov. 8 at the Otto…
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Washington Town Center
Our current selection features gracious single-family homes and choice town homes Sharbell Development Corp.’s Washington Town Center, located in beautiful Mercer County, offers a wonderful selection of early delivery homes that will delight even the most discerning homebuyer. Construction is well under way and homebuyers can move in this fall. "Early deliveries are always a…
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A new life
Princeton University scholar looks beyond immigration fracas to Oxford studies By: Hilary Parker Dan-el Padilla Peralta, the Princeton University class of 2006 salutatorian, left the United States on Sept. 15 for the first time since he was brought here at the tender age of 4 by his mother. The winner of the university’s Daniel M.…
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DISPATCHES by Hank Kalet: Enforcement slows speeders
Child-designed signs put up in hopes to educate drivers of speeding dangers By: Hank Kalet Local and county officials want to remind drivers to ease off the gas in residential neighborhoods. To that end, they have unveiled a new program designed to educate drivers about the rules. The county will be posting about 375 signs…
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Hess’ girls start 6-3-1
By: Sean Moylan "Sleep in the winter" is a saying often used by the best teams in Major League Baseball (the saying used to be "sleep in November" until the New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks actually played in November in 2001). Managers often use the saying to inspire their players once it comes time…
