Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • LOOSE ENDS: A stimulating chat with Jim Floyd

    LOOSE ENDS: A stimulating chat with Jim Floyd

    A concert by jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and colleagues ‘served as the (community’s) Spirit Recovery Act, boosting my spirit and those of the hundreds of audience members listening to the uplifting music.’

  • LOOSE ENDS: A stimulating chat with Jim Floyd

    LOOSE ENDS: A stimulating chat with Jim Floyd

    By Pam Hersh Special Writer     Everyone is talking stimulus package these days. I have been part of at least a dozen community meetings in the past few weeks whose participants are counting on Daddy Warbucks/Uncle Sam to give them some economic recovery funds to help solve their budgetary problems — including their own personal…

  • POINT TAKEN: Where to buy 80,000 books. Cheap.

    By Fred Tuccillo Fortunately for this week’s Bryn-Mawr-Wellseley Book Sale, not everyone is as reluctant to part with used books as I am. That’s why they’ll have 80,000 books available for purchase beginning Wednesday and I’ll still have my complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica Juniors.    It’s not as if they’ll be missed, though. Encyclopedias still…

  • SPOTLIGHT: The flavor of Central Jersey: Princeton’s Taste of the Nation slated for April 20

    SPOTLIGHT: The flavor of Central Jersey: Princeton’s Taste of the Nation slated for April 20

         With a passion to fight childhood hunger, Central Jersey’s hottest chefs, restaurants, and mixologists will be gathering once again for Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation Princeton, springtime’s premier culinary benefit, which will take place on Monday, April 20, at The Westin Hotel at Forrrestal Village, Plainsboro.     The 17th annual Taste…

  • BIRTH NOTICES: 02/20 — 03/18, 2009

        University Medical Center at Princeton has announced the following births to residents of the municipalities served by The Packet:     a daughter to Sasirekha Palaniswamy of Plainsboro, Feb. 20;     a daughter to Simona Rojas and Atenogenes Lopez of Princeton, Feb. 21;     a daughter to Celia Nieto and Marcelino Carrera of Princeton, Feb.…

  • Lifting restrictions on stem cell research

    Dr. Lucin Brijn of The ALS Association Lifting restrictions on stem cell research To the editor:     President Barack Obama’s decision Monday to lift restrictions that havelimited federal funding for embryonic stem cell research will significantly aid the search for the causes and cure of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. While…

  • Liz Lampert announces re-election campaign

        I am writing to announce my campaign for Township Committee. I joined Township Committee in December and I am asking for your support in the June primary election.    I was inspired to get involved in local government by my work with the Obama campaign. As co-chair of Mercer for Obama, I helped to build…

  • Right-to-die movement under attack

    S. Davies, R. Denard, B. Fleming, R.Fleming, L. Lerner, D. Levine, R. Levine, S. Stember, J. Higgins of Princeton     Many Princeton-area residents are members of the Final Exit Network, which is a volunteer right-to-die organization dedicated to serving people who are suffering from an intolerable condition of misery and who wish to end their…

  • PRINCETON: Remembering Mrs. Floyd

    PRINCETON: Remembering Mrs. Floyd

    James Floyd Sr., left, holds the inaugural Fannie E. Floyd Racial Justice Award on behalf of his late wife, with Judy Hutton, CEO of the YWCA Princeton. They stand under ‘the watchful eye’ of a portrait of Mrs. Susie B. Waxwood, the first African American executive director of the YWCA Princeton — and of any…