Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • WEST WINDSOR: Apply here for your poetic license

    April, the most poetic month     The West Windsor Arts Council is taking poetic license with its eighth annual poetry event. Spring Poetry Awakening, to be held Sunday, April 26, will feature a workshop with esteemed poet, professor and editor Maria Mazziotti Gillan at 12:30 p.m. The one-and-a-half-hour workshop, open to anyone with a pen…

  • WW redevelopment plan is a ‘crazy decision’

    R. Moody of West Windsor     It’s mind boggling to learn that West Windsor Township has finally voted “Yes” to the inane plan to erect a village transit center within close proximity and earshot of the Princeton Junction train station. Where else has a development of this eclectic nature been built around a crowded railroad…

  • Corzine’s budget and state colleges

    Paul Shelly, NJ Association of State Colleges & Universities     The austere budget proposed by Governor Corzine contains a cut of five percent in state appropriations to the nine state colleges and universities. Collectively, the colleges/universities would lose $13.8 million, bringing the state appropriations down to the same level (in dollars, not adjusted for inflation)…

  • Congratulating Princeton Day School

    Betty Wolfe of Princeton     Congratulations to Princeton Day School students and staff for winning the national Green Cup Challenge by reducing their energy use by 22 percent last month. Their efforts were a fantastic combination of common sense technical decisions — such as finding a way to clean at night without having all the…

  • Mercer Chamber opposes trust fund diversion

    Jeffrey Perlman, Michele Siekerk of Mercer Regional C of C    The Mercer Regional Chamber of Commerce is calling for legislation that will prohibit the future diversion of money for the Unemployment Trust Fund.    The New Jersey Unemployment Trust Fund is the means through which unemployment claims in the state are satisfied. New Jersey pays out…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Friday, March 27 to Friday, April 3, 2009

    COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Friday, March 27 to Friday, April 3, 2009

    JUBILEE! — The Westminster Jubilee Singers, under the direction of J. Donald Dumpson, present ‘An Afternoon of Spirituals, Hymns and Gospel Songs: Hope in Turbulent Times’ on Sunday, March 29, at 3 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the Princeton campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University. On the program are traditional and contemporary gospel…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Friday, March 27 to Friday, April 3, 2009

    COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Friday, March 27 to Friday, April 3, 2009

    Friday, March 27     ‘Cinema at the Whole Earth Center’: “WWOOF ‘n Wander: Opportunities on Organic Farms from Hawaii to the Himalayas” with Princeton’s Joshua Halpern, film director. Hour-long documentary on the work of WWOOF – Willing Workers on Organic Farms (wwoof.org). 7:30, repeated Saturday, 7:30 p.m. The Whole Earth Center Café, 360 Nassau St.,…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Scenes: ‘Home Is Where the Art Is’

    WEST WINDSOR: Scenes: ‘Home Is Where the Art Is’

    Ruth Kusner Potts presents West Windsor Mayor Shing-Fu Hseuh with a plaque expressing appreciation the West Windsor Arts Council’s appreciation. Staff photo by John Keating

  • WEST WINDSOR: Scenes: ‘Home Is Where the Art Is’

    WEST WINDSOR: Scenes: ‘Home Is Where the Art Is’

    Laura McMillan and John Henry Goldman. Staff photo by John Keating