Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • Thanks from West Windsor-Plainsboro HS

    Charles D. Rudnick, principal    On behalf of the faculty and staff at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, we would like to recognize the community spirit of Wayne Kalinowski and John Martel of the Windsor Farm. They were very generous in their donation of Fall mums to beautify our school for Back to School Night…

  • Sen. Obama and corruption

    Steve Allen of Montgomery     I cannot believe the hypocrisy of Sen. Barack Obama, who claims that he does not want four more years of the same garbage that we as a nation have endured under our current president. Now, it puzzles me that a man so steep in corruption can make that kind of…

  • Consider selling the Skillman Village site

    Jessie Havens of Montgomery     I was astonished to read Montgomery Township Committee members’ negative reaction to a Somerset County freeholder offer to consider buying the former North Princeton Developmental Center site for a county park. If this were not Montgomery Township I would readily conclude it was pure partisan politics; why else would anyone…

  • Let the county buy the Skillman site

    Ed Trzaska of Montgomery     I recently heard about Kacey Dyer and the Montgomery Republican’s proposal to sell the old North Princeton Development Center to the county as a new park. What a truly wonderful idea. This can really clean up the mess Mayor Cecilia Xie Birge and the local Democrats have created.    Under Democratic…

  • GOP’s bad idea for Skillman Village

    Steve Heckel of Montgomery     Skillman Village is a fantastic opportunity for Montgomery to create a place that becomes a destination like no other. The local Republicans can’t figure out what to do about it so they have turned it, sadly, into a political football.    First they wanted to just turn the property over to…

  • SPOTLIGHT: Jarrett Kerbel: Keeping the lights on in Mercer

    SPOTLIGHT: Jarrett Kerbel: Keeping the lights on in Mercer

    Jarrett Kerbel, executive director, Crisis Ministry of Princeton and Trenton

  • Save Princeton’s Speer Library

    Bruce C. ‘Rob’ Robertson of Princeton     Historic Princeton has a heritage and a beauty of which we all can be proud. To its great credit, the borough has a broad consensus with residents through the Master Plan that this heritage is worth preserving and enhancing.    And so it is with shock and dismay that…

  • Skillman Village needs county bailout

    Thom Carter of Montgomery   Now it seems as if the recent trend toward government bailouts has reached Montgomery Township. Because of poor planning by our mayor and her colleagues that resulted in eroding of the municipal surplus and building a monumental debt, the taxpayers of Montgomery are facing a substantial new burden. The primary culprit…

  • BOOK NOTES: Food fraud: New book takes a look at ‘a dark history’