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  • ‘Crank’

    With deadpan dialogue, throwaway jokes and killings often played as slapstick, this film is like a dessert meant to be forgotten once it’s finished. By: Elise Nakhnikian    Sometimes life imitates art, sometimes art imitates life. And then there are the times when art imitates video games.    "We have ADD, and so do 70 million other…

  • Property Transfers — September 6, 2006 — Part 2

    The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to…

  • In Princeton, numbers add up to big celebration

    A PREVIEW OF THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR By: Hilary Parker    The Princeton Regional Schools will open on Thursday, so it’s time for a little word problem.    How many causes for celebration will the district’s community — including its 356 teachers and 3,425 students (and counting) — enjoy in the 2006-2007 academic year?    Apparently, plenty —…

  • Skillman Village lake to be reviewed by Montgomery Township Committee

    Playground equipment for Van Horne Park also on agenda By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — In its first meeting in more than a month, the Township Committee on Thursday will discuss issues ranging from the restoration of Sylvan Lake and installation of playground equipment in Van Horne Park to authorizing the solicitation of bids for the…

  • Letters to the Editor, Sept. 5

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Sept. 5 A serious plan for GOP dominance To the editor:     As a longtime registered Republican, I have sent the following plan to Republican headquarters in Washington D.C.:    Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.    Allow those women who want to marry women, marry…

  • Plainsboro police seek recruits for citizen academy

    By: Courtney Gross    PLAINSBORO — The township Police Department is recruiting for its fall Citizen Police Academy, which will begin Sept. 12 and last 11 weeks.    The program is designed to better inform citizens on the duties and responsibilities of the department — not to train civilians to carry out the duties of officers, police…

  • E-mails among West Windsor council members raise public-records issue

    ANALYSISFor public officials, electronic communications are no longer personal By: Courtney Gross    In the confines of cyberspace, closed-door meetings unnoticed to the public could be happening right now — meetings that transcend time and physical space, conversations over AOL, Gmail, Comcast or Hotmail.    Even though this technology is accessible and the delete button has no…

  • Yes, there are ways to control storms’ impact

    PACKET EDITORIAL, Sept. 5 By: Packet Editorial    A little more than a year to the day after Hurricane Katrina turned the Gulf Coast into a disaster area, central New Jersey got but a tiny taste of nature’s wrath over the weekend in the form of Tropical Depression Ernesto.    It could have been a lot worse,…

  • Wave of the future?

    Ocean Power Technologies hopes its buoy generators will help power the world By: Lauren Otis    PENNINGTON — Anyone who has ever gone to the beach and waded into even modest surf has a good idea how powerful ocean waves are. While others find the buffeting of surf simply invigorating, George Taylor found inspiration and an…