Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: Watershed FEST celebrates ‘Green & Growing’ at 60
Watershed FEST co-Chairmen Bill Carmean and Nancy Ross, of Yardley, Pa.
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PRINCETON AREA: Scenes: Watershed FEST celebrates ‘Green & Growing’ at 60
Longtime Watershed Association supporter the Rev. David McAlpin Jr. of Skillman and Stephanie Harris of Hopewell enjoy the Watershed FEST. Rev. McAlpin is the son of Watershed Association founding member David McAlpin and is a former Trustee and Board Chair.
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Friends of the Princeton Public Library
Pam Wakefield of Princeton On behalf of the Friends of the Princeton Public Library I want to thank thepublic and the library staff for making our annual book sale, held this pastweekend, an unqualified success. Delighted dealers, collectors and hundredsof happy residents left the sale laden with treasures. We soldextraordinary art books and valuable…
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Send aid, not troops, to Afghanistan
The Rev. Carol S. Haag of Princeton Open Letter to President Obama: Our military attacks on Afghanistan are triggering a cultural response that is making us as Americans less safe, not more safe. Afghanistan is a tribal culture that maintains its equilibrium by revenge — you hurt my family, my village, my tribe and…
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Honoring a coach and teacher in WW
Ted Phelan of WWP HS North Baseball Club As we start the school year, parents all want the best teachers for their students and coaches for their student athletes. I am encouraging you all to begin with the end in mind. Our teacher of the year will get you all to look for the…
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Protect our fragile democracy
Rebecca H. Rhodes of West Windsor On Monday of last week, soldiers in the distant Republic of Guinea, a West African nation of 10 million people, ruled by successive military juntas since 1984, brutally entrapped pro-democracy demonstrators in the capital’s largest stadium, opened fire on them with live ammunition, and then beat and raped…
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PRINCETON: Loose Ends: On ratifying a new public holiday
By Pam Hersh Special Writer I looked in all the newspapers for the half-price sales at the car dealers or the “midnight madness” sale at Macy’s or the blow-out sale at Wal-Mart. I searched the Sunday newspaper inserts for the ubiquitous picture of Uncle Sam with his finger pointed at me and saying, “We…
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PRINCETON: SPOTLIGHT: John Calvin: Princeton Theological Seminary is celebrating a testimony of faith
Portrait of John Calvin by Ary Scheffer. The great Protestant Reformer and theologian was born Jean Cauvin in the town of Noyon in Picardy, France, in 1509. In addition to his magnum opus, ‘Institutes of the Christian Religion,’ he wrote commentaries on most of the books of the Bible as well as theological treatises. Calvin’s…
