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  • Penguin helps kick off reading club

    Children and parents "flock" to meet Saba the penguin By: Jessica Beym    Even though Saba the penguin likes to spend her days in icy water, she braved the heat last week during a visit to the Cranbury School to kick off the Cranbury Public Library’s Summer Reading Program.    The Large Group Room was packed June…

  • Company gets pet protection

    Animal group donates pet-size oxygen masks By: Jessica Beym    Whether they’re saving the life of a person or a pet, the volunteers at the Cranbury Fire Company need the right equipment and thanks to a local veterinarian, they now have another tool to help them do that.    Danielle Palmer, of Best Friends Pet Care on…

  • Charity combines gala parties with help for New York’s disadvantaged

    GOTO traces its roots back to Princeton University graduates By: Hilary Parker    With time at a premium, is there any way successful young professionals can make a difference in the lives of New York City’s disadvantaged youths while simultaneously attending posh parties?    Absolutely, if they’re going to bashes thrown by GOTO, "Giving Opportunities to Others,"…

  • Parking lots cannot retain region’s rains

    PACKET EDITORIAL, June 30 By: Packet Editorial    For the past year or so, municipal officials across New Jersey have been struggling to comply with new state regulations requiring them to craft stormwater-management plans.    Every town is under the gun to come up with a detailed scheme for developing and adopting best management practices that conform…

  • E.W. 12’s struggle late in LL opener

    By: Sean Moylan    Nearly midway through the fourth inning, it was still very much anybody’s game.    Sam Badillo’s second-inning sacrifice fly, which plated Nick Sudnick, who had reached on the first of his two walks, had cut his East Windsor 12-Year-Old All-Star’s baseball team’s deficit to 2-1.    Moreover, East Windsor starter Nick Senatore had made…

  • Antiwar exhibit aims to open people’s eyes

    43 pairs of empty boots to go on exhibit in front on Borough Hall By: Kara Fitzpatrick    Forty-three pairs of boots — each one symbolizing a lost life — will be standing in front of Princeton Borough Hall today during the debut of Eyes Wide Open: New Jersey.    The exhibit — created by the American…

  • West Windsor opens with convincing win

    Softball team is a District 12 favorite By: Kyle Moylan    WASHINGTON TWP. — Like all of the other teams in the District 12 softball tournament for12-year-olds, Washington has been chasing after West Windsor for several years. Washington has come closer than most of the other teams. Going into this year’s tournament, several of the other…

  • Arts Council building project is right on track

    Michael Graves-designed center set to open in fall of 2007 By: Kara Fitzpatrick    One year after a groundbreaking ceremony for The Arts Council of Princeton’s expanded facility, construction on the project is right on track, according to Jeff Nathanson, Arts Council executive director.    "So far, knock on wood, things are going on schedule," Mr. Nathanson…

  • Big chops

    Area woman makes the grade in world of karate competition By: Jake Uitti    In the world of karate, honor is held above all when it comes to competition.    For Alexis Watson, a graduate of Princeton High School who now attends Lynchburg College in Virginia, there has been no greater honor in her 13-year karate career…