Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON AREA: Tasty!: Taste of the Nation delights ticket holders

    PRINCETON AREA: Tasty!: Taste of the Nation delights ticket holders

    Andrea Kane Cheers! Betty Dixon, Angie McGowan, Sofia Kounelias, Patti Higgins, Joy Neath, and James Mendez of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at Taste of the Nation.

  • PRINCETON AREA: In the Kitchen: Three cheers for el Cinco de Mayo!
  • PRINCETON AREA: Tasty!: Taste of the Nation delights ticket holders

    PRINCETON AREA: Tasty!: Taste of the Nation delights ticket holders

    Andrea Kane Photo Evan Staats of Ewing and Anthony Sitoy of Montgomery try Thai Shrimp Salad with Laughing Bird shrimp, avocado, peanut and pineapple served by Justin Kurvilla of elements.

  • Anti-gay views in Princeton

    Scott Weingart of Princeton     By any objective measure, Princeton is a liberal town. Together, Township and Borough residents cast 79 percent of their votes for Barack Obama in last November’s election. Princeton is home to the state’s only openly LGBT legislator, and Princeton University undergraduates voted by overwhelming majorities to support marriage equality both…

  • A way forward on Princeton consolidation

    Chad Goerner, Barbara Trelstad, Wendy Benchley of Princeton        The Local Option Municipal Consolidation Act that was passed in 2007 provides additional flexibility to the consolidation process and was created as a direct result of the failure of the last consolidation study in the Princetons. We have gathered some of the concerns and questions that residents…

  • Princeton University and borough taxes

    Anne Waldron Neumann of Princeton     Princeton University Vice President Robert Durkee wrote recently “that Borough taxpayers benefit financially from the University’s presence,” and that “This finding is consistent with the fact” that “Princeton Borough taxpayers pay the lowest tax rate of any community in Mercer County.”    Does “lowest tax rate” mean less in total…

  • Charlie Morgan for mayor of West Windsor

    Vincent Manzari of West Windsor    The only reason West Windsor has a set of principles designed to guide redevelopment is because Charlie Morgan insisted, against Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh, that the residents of West Windsor be protected from the potentially negative effects of massive redevelopment.    Mayor Hsueh publicly stated he “did not want to tie…

  • It’s time to have one Princeton

    Casey Lambert of Princeton     No matter where in the world I find myself, when asked where I’m from I reply Princeton, New Jersey. It would never occur to me to say “Princeton Borough” or “Princeton Township.    Take a good look at the main street map of Princeton Township, with Princeton Borough in its midst,…

  • Charlie Morgan responds on WW quorum dispute

    Charlie Morgan of West Windsor Township Council     Two of Ms. Heidie Kleinman’s statements in Tuesday’s Princeton Packet article about the budget meeting quorum issue simply are not true. The article quotes her as saying that she “repeatedly” asked me “over two weeks to change the meeting time because she could not make it.” The…