Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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Home energy audit worth the effort
Ed Trzaska of Montgomery Last fall, my wife and I completed an energy efficiency renovation of our Pike Run townhouse via the state’s Home Performance with Energy Star Program. The results have been amazing — a 40 percent reduction in our energy consumption and utility bills. The program started with a comprehensive energy audit…
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New Jersey needs civil service reform
William G. Dressel, Jr. of NJ League of Municipalities “We the people” can amend our Constitution — our basic framework of civil rights and self-government — but we cannot rescind a personnel policy decision made decades ago and leave the civil service system. The voters of a municipality can choose to place their public…
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PRINCETON: Design Within Reach hosts hosts ‘Call of the Small’
ANDREA KANE Aura Star of Princeton peers at a room display designed by Christine Ferrara.
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PRINCETON: Design Within Reach hosts hosts ‘Call of the Small’
ANDREA KANE Lea Goldhammer, age 10, and her mother, Andrea Lass, of Plainsboro peek into the Kaleidoscope House featured by Christine Ferrara at the modern miniature design event.
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Helping diabetes sufferers in Princeton
Karen Rose Tank, Eileen Blanchfield of Princeton Diabetes is an epidemic that affects nearly 24 million Americans with another 57 million at high risk for developing this devastating disease. Of this population, over 1 million are diagnosed with type 1 or insulin-dependent diabetes where they no longer produce insulin. They must rely on external…
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PRINCETON: Mission to Haiti: A surgeon shares his diary of volunteer service in a Port-au-Prince field hospital
At the UN-sponsored Medishare field hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, distant, indeed, from Palmer Square, are anesthesiologist Dr. John Seybert, left, and thoracic surgeon Dr. John Heim, right. Photo courtesy of John Heim, M.D.
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PRINCETON: Mission to Haiti: A surgeon shares his diary of volunteer service in a Port-au-Prince field hospital
Dr. John Seybert, foreground, in the Operating Room. Photo courtesy of John Heim, M.D.
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PRINCETON: Mission to Haiti: A surgeon shares his diary of volunteer service in a Port-au-Prince field hospital
By John Heim, M.D. Special to The Packet Editor’s introduction: In mid-May, two University Medical Center at Princeton physicians, Dr. John Heim, a thoracic surgeon and chairman of the Department of Surgery, and his colleague, anesthesiologist Dr. John Seybert, left Princeton to vacation in a resort known for its beautiful beaches, majestic mountains and…
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Why doesn’t PRSD promote educators from within?
William W. Lee I have been a resident of Princeton for 36 years and have been a close observer of Princeton Regional Schools and an involved school parent since the mid-1980’s when my eldest child began school. I have an unusual vantage point from which to view the school system, since my children have…
