Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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‘Once Common, Now Treasured’: Monmouth’s Longstreet Farm opens a door to a fruitful past
Interior of the Work Shed at Longstreet Farm.
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Lamenting plans for Mount Rose
Carolyn Foote Edelmann of West Windsor Lamenting plans for Mount Rose To the editor: Every time I travel toward the Delaware River, in quest of hikes and history, I drive grieving through tiny doomed Mount Rose. Just a year ago, people of the Valley galvanized to save nearby St. Michael’s land from a mere…
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Princeton planners ignore environment
Grace Sinden of Princeton As a former member serving for the last 13 years on the Princeton Environmental Commission and Princeton Health Commission, I and others have often felt frustrated with the actions of the Princeton Regional Planning Board in their apparent lack of interest, and even dismissiveness, regarding environmental protection, with the notable…
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‘Paddle for Pink’: Teamwork on the water fosters hope in the fight against breast cancer
Photos by Suzette Lucas By Kristin Boyd Staff Writer The women sat two-to-a-row inside a 40-foot-long dragon boat, barely saying a word, focused only on the gentle waves ahead. Their paddles were in near-perfect harmony, their rhythmic rowing almost in sync with the water. On this warm spring evening, as the sun cast…
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‘Once Common, Now Treasured’: Monmouth’s Longstreet Farm opens a door to a fruitful past
Photos by Anne Zeman By Carolyn Foote Edelmann Special Writer At historic Longstreet Farm, tucked away in Monmouth County’s Holmdel, three unique greetings welcome photographer Anne Zeman and me: The first is the insistent midday crowing of the creature dubbed by the staff “our aggressive rooster.” The second is the headline, “Once Common —…
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‘Paddle for Pink’: Teamwork on the water fosters hope in the fight against breast cancer
Suzette Lucas Machestic Dragons president Terry Coleman with Midge Franco and the rest of the team listen up while coach Ellen Law, to right of boat, gives a little encouragement.
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‘Paddle for Pink’: Teamwork on the water fosters hope in the fight against breast cancer
Suzette Lucas The Machestic Dragons show their stuff on Mercer Lake.
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‘Once Common, Now Treasured’: Monmouth’s Longstreet Farm opens a door to a fruitful past
Almost like a still life: Rooster and plow.
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‘Once Common, Now Treasured’: Monmouth’s Longstreet Farm opens a door to a fruitful past
Longstreet Farm’s plush Victorian parlor.
