Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

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

    Jeffrey Scott of Montgomery     I have been a volunteer member of Montgomery Township’s Budget Finance Advisory Committee (BFAC) since 2006. The BFAC spent considerable time preparing a 10-year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for the township. BFAC looked at the township’s long-term capital improvement projects for the next 10 years. Included in the plan was…

  • W. Windsor’s closed bridge and bad traffic

    Dennis Cruz of West Windsor     I, along with many of my neighbors in West Windsor, are frustrated with word that the Alexander Road bridge will be closed for at least another three months. We were all told in June that the work wouldn’t stretch past September, a timeline that burst with the discovery of…

  • AROUND TOWN, Oct. 16, 2008

    Selected by Michael Redmond ‘More Vibrant Life’ with Dr. Oz     Mehmet Oz, M.D., author, TV personality, and professor of surgery at Columbia University, will speak about “How to Live a Longer, More Vibrant Life” during a benefit for the Community Hospice of Greenwood House which will take place on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 7…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Scorn not the humble bean

    IN THE KITCHEN: Scorn not the humble bean

    by PAT TANNER Special Writer     Have you noticed how the recent economic downturn has generated numerous stories on how to cut corners on your food budget?     Frankly, I resent that food is the first place Americans are expected to economize on. Before that, I’d cut back on clothes, cars, cable TV and electronic…

  • LOOSE ENDS: Hey, pal, Rahway deserves a shout-out

    By PAM HERSH Special Writer     “How does Rahway rate a shout-out?” shouted out a jogger to his running mate, as they — in their Princeton University T-shirts — whizzed by the Nassau Street sign that shouted out “Rahway — 27 miles.”     “Who cares how far away it is? Why would anyone want to…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Scorn not the humble bean
  • Whitman cancellation a setback for women

    Sarah Schulte and Rachel Gittleman, students     As students of Stuart Country Day School we have been taught To appreciate the evolution of women in society over the last century. It’s been almost 90 years since women were granted the power to vote. Almost 65 years later the first woman was inducted into the Supreme…

  • Commending bishop for canceling Christie Whitman talk

    Mena Shaddow of Bloomsbury    I think it is commendable that Bishop Smith made a stand against allowing a speaker who has made it clear that she is pro-abortion to speak at a Catholic institution. I’m also a bit disturbed by Sister de La Chapelle’s regrets at the incident, as she should have been aware of…