Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: SPOTLIGHT: Home energy audits save money, help the environment

    PRINCETON: SPOTLIGHT: Home energy audits save money, help the environment

        With cold weather fast approaching, Sustainable Princeton and the Princeton Environmental Commission analyzed energy audits from six area homes and found that with recommended improvements, each home could realize an average savings of $1,400 on their annual energy bills.     “On average, a typical home adds 6,500 pounds of carbon every year to the…

  • PRINCETON AREA: SCENES: ‘Water Works’ at the Watershed: Gala raises $118,000

    PRINCETON AREA: SCENES: ‘Water Works’ at the Watershed: Gala raises $118,000

    Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association/Photos by Nina Brenner     Dressed in finery and wellies, more than 250 friends of the Stony Brook- Millstone Watershed Association, central New Jersey’s first environmental group, enjoyed an evening of food, music and fun at the Watershed Association’s 35th Annual Watershed FEST: “Water Works.”     Held Saturday, Oct. 2, at the…

  • PRINCETON AREA: SCENES: ‘Water Works’ at the Watershed: Gala raises $118,000

    PRINCETON AREA: SCENES: ‘Water Works’ at the Watershed: Gala raises $118,000

    FEST co-chairs Marylou Ferrara and Bill Carmean, both Watershed Association trustees, get to work at the 35th Annual Watershed FEST. Not pictured is FEST co-chair Nancy Ross.

  • PRINCETON: SPOTLIGHT: Home energy audits save money, help the environment
  • PRINCETON: The Social Whirl

    PRINCETON: The Social Whirl

    Arts Council of Princeton’s Dining by Design: “La Soirée Surréaliste”     The Arts Council of Princeton’s annual fall fundraiser, Dining by Design: “La Soirée Surréaliste,” is coming up on Saturday, Oct. 23. Event tickets start at $175 per person and include a Gala Reception at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies Inc. in Montgomery (Skillman) from…

  • Candidates offer business, jobs plan

    Marilyn Silverman, Hamilton Last year, I took part in a business roundtable with Assemblywoman Linda Greenstein and Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo. Local business owners from throughout the 14th Legislative District came together with our representatives in Trenton to share our thoughts and concerns about our future in this economy.    Assembly members Greenstein and DeAngelo took what…

  • Most Democrats run from Obama agenda

    Beverly Elston, Princeton In connection with Frank and Grace Sinden’s letter to the editor (Sept. 28) it was obvious that the Sindens seek to promote Rush Holt’s re-election by asserting that President Obama needs Mr. Holt’s support in Congress. The Sindens, I’m sure, are aware that Mr. Holt has been a constant and loyal supporter…

  • Help alleviate suffering in Pakistan

    Adnan Shamsi, Princeton I just finished reading “ZEITOUN” by Dave Eggers, a vivid accounting of life experienced before, during and after the flooding of a major American city in 2005. This year was the fifth year anniversary of the decimation of New Orleans, brought on by Hurricane Katrina.    Now flooding resulting from monsoon rains has…

  • Call for candidate to answer questionnaire

    Daniel Harris, Princeton The following is an open letter to Scott Sipprelle, candidate for Congress in the 12th Congressional District: Dear Mr. Sipprelle: I have been dismayed to learn that you have refused to respond to either the bi-partisan Project VoteSmart questionnaire or the nonpartisan Peace Voter 2010 questionnaire. Your opponent, Rush Holt, has completed…