Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: Simply dazzling!: Young Audiences goes to Carnival
Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes and Pam Hughes.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Non-profits’ actions speak volumes
Grace Sinden of Princeton The contrast between the actions of two non-profit organizations, Isles of Trenton and the Westerly Road Church (WRC) in Princeton is stark and startling. On one hand an editorial in the Times of Trenton (“LEEDing the way,” March 21) described the continuing environmentally sustainable projects of Isles in current plans to…
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BRT is a chance for a better system
Marvin Reed of Princeton Letter writer William S. Moody (The Packet, March 23) has a right to be concerned about the Dinky. Over the years it has served us well. But, service cutbacks and breakdowns continue to threaten local transit service we in Princeton have come to value. We have an opportunity, working with NJ…
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PRINCETON: Qiang Tu, cellist: From Beijing to Manhattan to Richardson Auditorium
Chris Lee New York Philharmonic cellist Qiang Tu returns to Princeton as soloist with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra on Sunday in Richardson Auditorium. Photo by Chris Lee
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PRINCETON: Qiang Tu, cellist: From Beijing to Manhattan to Richardson Auditorium
By Pat Summers Special Writer “Well, here we are once more on the scene of our former triumphs!” – Col. Calverley in Gilbert & Sullivan’s “Patience” Qiang Tu’s three cellos are as storied and important to him as other men’s sports cars might be to them. Mr. Tu’s instruments serve as markers along his…
