Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON: LOOSE ENDS: Setting the scene in living color
By PAM HERSH Special Writer On Black Friday, among the pushing and shoving crowds on the sidewalk at Nassau and Witherspoon streets, were two people who brightened my blue mood. A man and a woman were standing on the corner and each was holding up a sign saying “Free Hugs” in big bold letters.…
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PRINCETON: SPOTLIGHT: ‘The Macho Paradox’
Men’s activist targets violence against women By JOAN RUDDIMAN Special Writer How pervasive is sexual violence in the United States? The answer is shocking. In high school, about 10 percent of all students report that they have been forced to have sex. One-quarter of the women in college experience attempted or complete…
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PRINCETON: McCarter names ‘Christmas Carol’ kids
McCarter Theatre/Frank Wojciechowski In what has become a much-loved community tradition, McCarter Theatre once again casts children from the greater Princeton area in its annual production of ‘A Christmas Carol.’ These 14 young actors make up the children’s ensemble and also play additional crucial roles, including the Cratchit children, Scrooge as a boy, and Christmas…
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The Lewis School’s ‘Tree of Light’
Cathy Byers of The Lewis School of Princeton Everyone who drives to and from Princeton during the holiday season is greeted with a radiant light that shines so brightly against the nighttime sky; the word of its presence and message has spread both near and far, even all the way to the White House.…
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SPOTLIGHT: Helping hands: Church & Dwight backs up employee support for Crisis Ministry
By JANET HUGHES Special to The Packet Elizabeth Ferguson wears Burberry glasses. That’s the first thing I noticed about her. The second was her lovely, sincere smile, along with that dark, fashionably ruffled wavy hair which looked effortless to maintain. Her kind eyes and soft- spoken manner would make any living soul comfortable when…
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HOLIDAY BOUNTY: Show your support!
Compiled by Michael Redmond Holiday shopping at Historical Society On Thursday, Dec. 4, from 6 to 8 p.m., the Historical Society of Princeton will throw a Holiday Shopping Party in its Museum Shop, where a variety of Princeton-related merchandise and holiday gifts for family and friends will be on sale. “Please help HSP…
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SPOTLIGHT: Helping hands: Church & Dwight backs up employee support for Crisis Ministry
At Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, where the Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton has an office, AmeriCorps intern Rachel Pennington, left, and community volunteer Gretchen Jaeckel make sure that the food pantry is stocked. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski
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Gusciora gun bill was misrepresented
Bryan Miller of Cease Fire NJ One of the gun lobby’s wildest voices, Alan Gottlieb of the so-called Citizens’ Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), weighed in on the pages of the Princeton Packet recently, employing his usual disingenuousness and hyperbole, to oppose Assemblyman Reed Gusciora’s bill A-2116. Pro-gunners like…
