Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • Defending Westerly Road Church plans

    David Keddie of Princeton     I first started attending Westerly Road Church in 1997 as a freshman at Princeton University. At the church I found a community with whom to share my faith and bridge the gap between town and gown. Today I write to support Westerly’s effort to build a building sufficient to continue…

  • PRINCETON: Loose Ends: Passover 2010: Next year in the Frist Center?

    By Pam Hersh Special Writer     “What Would Bubbie Do?” said Kate Fischl, answering a question rather than asking a question.     I had asked the Princeton University student, Class of 2011, how she celebrated Passover last year, and she responded by reciting the tile of the seder service she led for students at the…

  • Watershed to church: Don’t destroy Princeton Ridge

    Jim Waltman of Stony-Brook Millstone Watershed Assoc.     Respect and care for the environment has been embraced as a moral issue by a broad diversity of religions. More and more local churches and synagogues are encouraging their communities of faith to become stewards of the environment, while the nation’s largest religious denominations are increasingly voicing…

  • Dismayed by church plans for Princeton Ridge

    Susan Kapoor of Princeton     It was dismaying to learn of the plans of the Westerly Road Church (WRC) to build a sprawling building and parking lot on the Princeton Ridge. This development will create eight acres of impervious land cover and destroy over 500 trees on this environmentally sensitive land. The Princeton Ridge has…

  • Recommending Shamsi for PRSD school board

    David E. Cohen of Princeton     I am writing to share with my fellow Princetonians the high regard I have for Afsheen Shamsi, Princeton Township candidate for the Princeton Regional School Board this spring.    I met Afsheen about a year ago through our mutual involvement in Organize for America, an effort to turn the energy…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: Simply dazzling!: Young Audiences goes to Carnival
  • Family gives thanks for love and support

    The Gianacaci Family of Hopewell Township Our family would like to thank the countless numbers of people who prayed for our daughter, Christine, and our whole family ever since we first heard that she was missing at the Hotel Montana after the earthquake in Haiti. The love and support not only from family, friends, our…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Spotlight: Princeton’s Taste of the Nation is back — and bigger than ever — April 26

        Princeton’s hottest chefs, restaurants, and mixologists will gather for Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation, Central Jersey’s premiere culinary benefit. Taste of the Nation Princeton will raise critical funds needed to support Share Our Strength’s efforts to end childhood hunger in Central Jersey and across the nation. This year’s event will be held…

  • Church proposal will be destructive

    Huck Fairman of Princeton We bicycle weekly past the Poor Farm/Bunn Drive/Herrontown proposed site for the Westerly Road Church construction. It seemed like an unnecessarily large and destructive proposal. Now, with the Princeton Environmental Commission report, the destructiveness of the proposal is confirmed.    I hope that more Princetonians will voice their opposition. Huck Fairman Mount…