Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON: Mercer’s Run for Dad: Eight years and going strong
http://community.acsevents.org/runfordadnj “Is this really our eighth Run for Dad?” asked Glenn Parker of Montgomery, the co-founder of Mercer County’s annual Father’s Day event that raises awareness and money to fight prostate cancer, the most common cancer in American men after skin cancer. Mr. Parker was enjoying the food, beverages and entertainment at the…
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Westerly Road Church is not a medical center
Jane Buttars of Princeton It was really depressing to listen to the Westerly Road Church consultants and leaders at the Planning Board meeting on May 20. One of the various reasons was their comparison of their plan to the medical arts building in their proposed site’s vicinity. This is not an equal comparison. The…
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Supporting Neumann for Princeton Borough Council
Barbara Trelstad of Princeton Borough Council I hope Princeton Borough voters will vote for Democrat Anne Neumann in the primary election June 8. I have served with Anne on both the Princeton Environmental Commission and the Site Plan Review Advisory Board. I believe she has the necessary experience to serve the community well as…
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Mayor’s primary pitch for Rocky Hill
Mayor Ed Zimmerman of Rocky Hill The good people of Rocky Hill will be receiving a sample ballot for the June primary election from the Somerset County Clerk in the next few days. On it they will see that the mayor’s position and two Borough Council seats are up for election this year. They…
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Westerly Road should make suggested changes
Louis Slee of Princeton What do the Westerly Road Church, Princeton Planning Board and environmentalists share in common? The answer is stewardship. All are called to sound stewardship in the exercise of their responsibilities to the community. The pastors and elders of the church have shown stewardship primarily to their congregation and in outreach…
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More reasons to keep Princeton’s Dinky train
Herb Hobler of Montgomery It’s been reported that some 4,500 people have signed a petition to keep the Dinky Princeton/Princeton Junction train. Among so many arguments supporting that position, I respectfully note there are two I have yet to read about. One is about weather. The Dinky lets passengers in Princeton and Princeton Junction…
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Unhappy with Fay and Wilson on school budget cuts
Margaret M. Windrem of Montgomery I would like to congratulate the Montgomery school budget subcommittee for their hard work. The subcommittee was tasked to reduce the $65 million tax levy proposed by the Board of Education. Last month, the board’s budget was overwhelmingly defeated for good reason. The proposed $550 tax increase per household…
