Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: Help give needy kids a merry holiday

        Princeton’s Human Services Department seeks donors for its 12th annual Holiday Wish Program.     For the past 10 years, Princeton Human Services, township and borough employees, local businesses and organizations, and private donors have made hundreds of economically deprived Princeton children’s holiday wishes come true by providing them with at least one gift.    …

  • PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: Nov. 13 – Nov. 21, 2009

    PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: Nov. 13 – Nov. 21, 2009

    Friday, Nov. 13     Choral concert: Westminster Schola Cantorum and the Westminster Williamson Voices, conducted by James Jordan, will perform a concert titled “Laudate!” The program will include works by Rheinberger, Brahms, Ives, Rachmaninoff, Britt and O’Regan. A highlight will be Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms performed with the composer’s two- piano arrangement. The ensemble…

  • COUNTERPOINT: Frances Folsom Cleveland: A life in full

    COUNTERPOINT: Frances Folsom Cleveland: A life in full

    America’s youngest First Lady By Michael Redmond Lifestyle Editor     It has been some time since the White House was home to a young, vivacious and stylish First Lady with children still in grade school, but Michele Obama, who had just celebrated her 45th birthday when her husband was inaugurated, sets no records on that…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: Nov. 13 – Nov. 21, 2009

    PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: Nov. 13 – Nov. 21, 2009

    HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSES AT DRUMTHWACKET — Come to Drumthwacket’s popular December Open Houses and enjoy spectacular eco-friendly decorations by New Jersey’s premier garden clubs. Pictured above is the dining room. The 2009 theme is ‘EverGREEN!’ Invited judges choose which room wins the first prize, but all visitors may participate in the vote for the People’s…

  • COUNTERPOINT: Frances Folsom Cleveland: A life in full
  • A Princeton bridge too celebrated?

    Tim Pitts of Princeton    The news is good. The Rosedale bridge project is complete, and months of commuter anguish have come to an end. Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes and Township Mayor Bernie Miller attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony last Friday. According to reports, the leaders were delighted with the outcome of the project as…

  • West Windsor needs more than parking

    Jerry Foster of West Windsor     The “Plywood Junction” moniker is a painful reminder of the state of West Windsor’s Route 571 Main Street. I’m concerned that support for fixing up Princeton-Hightstown Road will be crowded out by building a new parking garage at the Princeton Junction train station since they appear to be competing…

  • WW-P custodians are worth keeping

    Andrea Crossey of Plainsboro     I am a long-time, taxpaying, voting resident of Plainsboro and a mother of three students in the WW-P School district attending South, Grover and Millstone River. I am both shocked and dismayed at the rather weak parental turnout at the school board meeting Tuesday night — in regards to the…

  • PRINCETON AREA: SCENES: Stony Brook Garden Club: Flowers, decor, graciousness …

    PRINCETON AREA: SCENES: Stony Brook Garden Club: Flowers, decor, graciousness …

    Jody Erdman, Annie Carden, Christina Henderson, Amy Granato and Alison Beers.