Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: Sept. 9 – Sept. 19, 2009

    PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: Sept. 9 – Sept. 19, 2009

    Focus: YMCA’s ‘Green and on the Scene’  Wednesday, Sept. 9     Free Musikgarten Demonstration Classes: The New School for Music Study will be offering free Musikgarten demonstration classes Sept. 9 and 10 at 9:30 a.m. and Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. at Kingston United Methodist Church, located on 9 Church St., Kingston. Suitable for newborns…

  • PRINCETON: A resident favors police merger

    Grant Wadley of Princeton    I would like to express my support for the municipal consolidation agenda, advocated by the late borough Police Chief Federico, the Borough Council members, and Mayor Trotman. Not only would the community save approximately $850,000 in officer salaries — freeing 10 officers to fight crime in communities that desperately need them…

  • PRINCETON: Philippa Gregory: When civil war was strictly a family affair

    PRINCETON: Philippa Gregory: When civil war was strictly a family affair

    English historical novelist Philippa Gregory appears Sept. 15 in Princeton in a reading from her new book, “The White Queen,” to benefit the Princeton Public Library.

  • Health care changes are needed

    Joan Jennings of Monroe     I am writing because I see a great need for reform and changes in the way our medical system exists currently. Medicare is a government program and my Medicare works very well.    I can’t understand why people believe the errors that say healthcare reform is socialized medicine and will lead…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Arts Council’s ‘Avenue of the Arts’ at MarketFair

    Party, Sept. 12; arts, food, shopping, Sept. 26     Life’s pleasures come in fours — eating, listening to music, viewing artwork and shopping. The West Windsor Arts Council will offer all these and more in a month-long celebration, “Avenue of the Arts,” at MarketFair in West Windsor.     Feting the grand re-opening of the Michael…

  • A big YMCA thanks for a special day

    Tom Libassi of South Brunswick YMCA     The Indo-American Cultural Foundation of Central New Jersey and the South Brunswick Family YMCA partnered to celebrate India Independence Day on Saturday, Aug. 15 at the Y. On behalf of the Y staff and Board of Directors, we thank Councilman Mac Shah, Tarak Patel, Tushar Patel and Dr.…

  • PRINCETON: Loose Ends: Sometimes it’s hard for a grandma’am to get the picture

    By Pam Hersh Special Writer     Taking “gramaternity leave” must agree with me, I thought. The friendly hospital-uniformed woman, when she saw me standing outside of the hospital room where my daughter was nursing her newborn, greeted me as “Miss” instead of the matronly “Ma’am.” She had a camera in her hands, and I wondered…

  • Good news about Schalks Crossing bridge

    Silvia Ascarelli of WW Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance     The West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance is delighted that Plainsboro is working hard with Amtrak to replace the Schalks Crossing bridge by 2012 and to add bike lane and sidewalks on the bridge (The Princeton Packet, Aug. 21). This will be a major improvement for…

  • Letter of protest to Scottish government

    Anne Sweeney of Monmouth Junction   The following letter was sent to the Scottish Minister of Justice, Kenny MacAskill:    Dear Mr. MacAskill: As former employee of Pan American World Airways, I am shocked and saddened by the decision of the Scottish government to release the convicted bomber of Pan Am Flight 103, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, on…