Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar, May 30 – June 8
RETURN ENGAGEMENT — Washington State-based singer-singwriter-guitarist Peter Spencer, formerly a resident of Rocky Hill, performs Saturday, June 13, at 8 p.m. at Grover’s Mill Coffee House, 295 Princeton-Hightstown Road, West Windsor, introducing his new CD, “From the Island.’ He repeats the show on Sunday, June 14, at 8 p.m. at Kline’s Gallery, 25 Bridge St.,…
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PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar, May 30 – June 8
NOT IN OUR TOWN — U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) congratulates Not in Our Town awardees from Princeton High School and John Witherspoon Middle School. From left: Tamara Curtis, Moriah Akrong, Mr. Holt, Javon Pannell, Jamyl Williams, Kahlil Howard, Kenneth Nwachukwu and Sam Nelson. Princeton students receive interfaith awards Not In Our Town (NIOT), an…
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PRINCETON: In the Kitchen: The family that cooks together …
Featured recipe: ASPARAGUS FRITTATA By Pat Tanner Special Writer Among the culinary specialties Jacob Hanan cooks up for his Princeton family are eggs (scrambled or sunny-side up), vegetable rice soup, and pears with honey. He’ll make toast, too, as long as someone else switches on the toaster oven. That’s because Jacob, who has been…
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Urging support for Crumiller
Eleanor J. Lewis of Princeton I urge all registered Democrats in Princeton Borough to vote on Tuesday, June 2 in the Democratic Primary Election for Jenny Crumiller for Borough Council. Jenny has already found several problems and addressed them as best she can as a taxpayer. She will do even more to resolve these…
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McCarter Theatre Gala Benefit was ‘fabulous’
Cheryl Goldman, Kathleen Kund Nolan of Princeton McCarter Theatre’s annual Gala Benefit on May 16, featuring a performance by jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli with cabaret star Jessica Molaskey was one of the best parties of the year. Not only did everyone have a fabulous time – dinner, dancing, live and silent auctions, champagne dessert…
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Township can’t hold off rising tax rate
David W. Blair of Princeton The Princeton Township Committee is justly pleased to report that the 3.5 percent increase in the municipal budget is less than the cap of 4 percent, but Township Administrator James Pascale says the township will eventually get to that 4 percent cap. It is likely that the Mercer County…
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Backing Jenny Crumiller for boro council
Dan Preston of Princeton Democratic Committee Jenny Crumiller has been my friend, neighbor and fellow activist for 18 years. We first worked together in the 1990s on neighborhood preservation issues, and later to protest the impending war in Iraq. Long before it was fashionable, Jenny exemplified a “yes we can” attitude with natural talent…
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Wilkes and Crumiller for Princeton Boro Council
Roger Martindell of Princeton Boro Council Princeton Borough primary voters have two gifts to consider, and they would do well to embrace each gift heartily in the voting booth on June 2 Kevin Wilkes, an architect and planner, is an exceptionally talented candidate for Borough Council — thoughtful, hardworking, personable. He has a…
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Princeton elections after consolidation
Mark Killingsworth of Princeton Now that there seems to be growing agreement that the township and the borough should consolidate, it is time to start discussing how Princeton’s new council would be elected. Some council members would probably be elected at large. However, for several reasons, election of at least some council members from…
