Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: Dec. 11 – Dec. 20, 2009

    For more events, see Packet Picks, Page 13A, and TIMEOFF maga zine. For Police Blotter, see Tuesday’s Packet. Calendar ÿ8CALENDARÿ Friday, Dec. 11     Princeton Regional Schools Board of Education Program Committee, noon, Valley Road.     “A Cappella Jam and Toy Drive”: Princeton University student a cappella groups will regale localshoppers and diners with a…

  • Montgomery school chief lauds bond vote

    Earl Kim, Montgomery school superintendent     On behalf of the Montgomery Township Board of Education, I would like to thank the residents of Montgomery and Rocky Hill as well as your newspaper (The Princeton Packet) for the time taken to better understand the school district’s recent referendum.    Your reporting and our residents’ thoughtful consideration resulted…

  • PRINCETON: Loose Ends: I (heart) ‘topping out’

    By Pam Hersh Special Writer     My friend standing in a big box discount store on Friday, Nov. 27, at 5 a.m. was armed with her weapon — a blue felt-tip marker pen. Waving the pen at the hordes of people as though it were a victory flag, she went to the ladies room and…

  • PRINCETON: Morven: Festival of Trees 2009

    Staff photos by Mark Czajkowski The Festival of Trees is the annual holiday event at the Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton where festive trees decorated by local businesses and garden clubs grace each of Morven’s galleries. This year’s festival opened Tuesday, Dec. 2, and will run through Jan. 10 at Morven, 55 Stockton St. Tickets…

  • PRINCETON: Fighting hunger here at home

    As the need rises, volunteers roll up their sleeves By Pat Summers Special Writer     Picture 14 full-size SUVs filled with food. That’s equivalent to the 34 tons of food collected for the Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton’s food store since December 2008 by one organization — “Yes We CAN!” Food Drives, a volunteer…

  • McCaffrey’s is thanked for turkeys

    Peter Y. Rapelye, headmaster, Princeton Junion School     On behalf of the faculty, staff, parents, and children of the Princeton Junior School, I would like to express our deepest gratitude to McCaffrey’s Supermarket for the generous donation of turkeys to our Thanksgiving basket drive last week. Our school collected an assortment of food items to…

  • Fighting hunger in Mercer County

    Alison Politizner of Princeton    On behalf of “Yes We CAN!” food drives, I would like to thank The Princeton Packet for its excellent article by Pat Summers, “Fighting hunger here at home” (Dec. 2). The writer successfully captured the determination of our group to relieve hunger in Mercer County.    For a year now, “Yes…

  • Historical Society thanks supporters

    J.H. Dumont, Erin Dougherty, Historical Society of Princeton     It’s been quite a fall season for the Historical Society of Princeton. We presented three enormously successful events, all of which were made possible by generous corporate support and a spirit of dedicated volunteerism in our community.    During the last weekend of September, the fifth annual…

  • Not happy about Obama’s troop speech

        It sounded like I was back in 1967 or 1968 listening to Lyndon Johnson talking about sending more troops to Vietnam.    Oh, Pete Seeger, where are you, now that we need you to go sing “Waist Deep In The Big Muddy” on the White House lawn? Stephen J. Davidson Princeton