Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • Proselytizing complaint was appropriate

    R. Kirk Williamson of Princeton    I would like to thank The Packet for publishing the letter “School is proselytizing for President Obama” by Ms. Villegas Londregan on Friday, May 1. It gives me the motivation to report a similar experience with our Community Park 3rd grader last year. My son asked one evening at the…

  • Princeton U. vp wrong on borough tax burden

    Walter Neumann of Princeton    In a recent reply to an earlier letter from my wife Anne Neumann, Princeton University Vice President Robert Durkee said she had not addressed his point that Princeton Borough has the lowest property tax rate in Mercer county, and that Princetonians benefit from their high property values.    The tax rate is…

  • West Windsor council quorum flap

    Paola and Andrew Blelloch of West Windsor     I am disappointed that Charlie Morgan has justified the calling of a 5 p.m. Township Council meeting recently to discuss the West Windsor Township budget by suggesting that other council members were lying about their availability at that time. The nature of his remarks with respect to…

  • PRINCETON: PFARS’ Auxiliary to celebrate 50th

    With applause and thanks!     The Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad will mark 50 years of service to the rescue squad and the community with a celebratory dinner on Monday, May 11.     Founded in 1959, the auxiliary’s purpose is to raise money for the rescue squad and to assist…

  • Morgan is wrong on WW bond rating

    Charles Wan of West Windsor     I was appalled by West Windsor Council President Charles Morgan’s proposal of spending down Township’s “surplus funds”in order to reduce our taxes, even if such a move would ruin the township’s AAA rating on its municipal bonds.    Let me try to understand Mr. Morgan’s proposal by using analogies in…

  • PRINCETON AREA: HomeFront to present ‘A Toast for Hope’ at Springdale

    May 15 event will benefit needy kids     HomeFront’s Week of Hope, running May 9 through 16, will bring together friends and neighbors throughout Central Jersey, all recognizing the need for positive change in the lives of families who are homeless or are in the crisis of poverty.     A highlight of the week will…

  • PRINCETON: Scenes: The Princeton Festival beg ins its revelry

    PRINCETON: Scenes: The Princeton Festival beg ins its revelry

    ARIA: Dr. Babette Pachence of Princeton won the gala’s grand prize for costume.

  • School proselytizing for President Obama

    Maria Victoria Villegas Londregan of Princeton     I ask for your attention to tell the people of Princeton that I witnessed political proselytizing in my daughter’s third grade class at Community Park School. I know what that is because I grew up in Chile. During the Socialist government of Salvador Allende, we little girls were…

  • For Linda Geevers in W. Windsor

    Heidi Kleinman, vp, W. Windsor Township Council     I endorse West Windsor Councilwoman Linda Geevers for re-election in the May 12 municipal election. Linda has worked tirelessly for our community for 10 years as a council member and as a West Windsor-Plainsboro school board member. She is a decisive, analytical, sensitive decision maker. She believes…