Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar, May 1 – May 9

    PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar, May 1 – May 9

    Andras Visky’s ‘Juliet’ — The Westerly Series on Art and Faith presents three performances of Andras Visky’s critically acclaimed ‘Juliet,’ a drama of struggle and faith based on a true story from Ceausescu’s Romania, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 7, 8, and 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts’…

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

    PRINCETON: Scenes: The Princeton Festival beg ins its revelry

    QUARTET: Paulina Schmer, Paul Muldoon, and Carol Morrison, all of Princeton, and David Brown of Yardley, Pa., enjoy the revels at the Princeton Festival gala.

  • PRINCETON AREA: In the Kitchen: Taking the lead on school nutrition

    PRINCETON AREA: In the Kitchen: Taking the lead on school nutrition

    Gary Giberson, director of the Lawrenceville School’s Dining Services, addressing the New Jersey Farm-to- School Network’s inaugural conference. Mr. Giberson ‘delineated six steps to sustainable dining halls and encouraged those who are in charge of school food-service programs to ask the right questions about the food they provide.’ Paloma Torres/The Lawrenceville School

  • PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar, May 1 – May 9

    PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar, May 1 – May 9

    Helping hands at UMCP — Courtenay Harton, left, and Ellen Maranca, owners of Room Service Interiors, an interior design firm in Pennington, volunteer their time and expertise to install ArtFirst! at the University Medical Center at Princeton. ArtFirst!, an international juried exhibition and sale featuring the works of artists with physical and mental disabilities, opens…

  • 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.