Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • Kindness of strangers appreciated

    Mary Julia Kephart of Princeton     Recently I was startled by a call from a borough policeman. He said he had my wallet. At that point, I didn’t know that my wallet was missing. He said it was found on the sidewalk, near where I’d parked my car. A passer-by spotted it and turned it…

  • SCENES: West Windsor steps out with style

    SCENES: West Windsor steps out with style

    Architect J. Robert Hillier, honorary chair; Ilene Dube, event chair; Ruth Kusner Potts, president, West Windsor Arts Council, and Heidi Kleinman, board member, enjoy the reception. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • SCENES: West Windsor steps out with style

    SCENES: West Windsor steps out with style

    The performance area of the atrium at RMJM Hillier, transformed for the evening into a cabaret where more than 30 artists exhibited their work. The benefit for the West Windsor Arts Council attracted some 200 people — a bigger turnout than the organizers had expected. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Don’t phone and drive

    David Weinstein of AAA Mid-Atlantic     On March 1, a new state law regarding cell phone usage behind the wheel goes into effect. It prohibits drivers from using a hand-held cell phone and makes doing so a primary offense – which means police can stop and ticket solely for that reason. The law also prohibits…

  • BOOK NOTES: Wordsworth — and a mysterious fugitive

    Val McDermid’s ‘The Grave Tattoo’ is truly an intriguing concept, with a modern-day mystery and murder tied up with a fascinating tale from two centuries before. By Joan Ruddiman Special Writer     Val McDermid has more than two dozen murder mysteries to her credit. She has been called “England’s most successful mystery writer.”     “The…

  • SCENES: West Windsor steps out with style

    SCENES: West Windsor steps out with style

    Lisa Weil, right, vice president of the West Windsor Arts Council, welcomes Joe and Joan Needham of Hopewell to the ‘Cabin Fever Cabaret.’ Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Cabin Fever Caberet a success

    Ilene Dube and Ruth Kusner Potts of West Windsor     The board of the West Windsor Arts Council and the Cabin Fever Cabaret Planning Committee would like to thank the greater West Windsor community for their outpouring of support to make our fundraiser, Cabin Fever Cabaret, such an amazing success.    On Saturday night Feb. 23…

  • Office development unwelcome in WW

    Peter and Helen Shriver of West Windsor     Here are some thoughts on the recent mailing by InterCap Holdings trying to develop our town, which we address to them:    I have been a resident of West Windsor for 18 years. I moved here with my family to get away from the congestion of northern New…

  • Let’s remember reusable grocery bags

    Judy Sarvary of Princeton     The other day in the grocery store, I overheard the woman next to me at the checkout asking her daughter to run and fetch her reusable bags from the car where she had left them. At this point I realized that mine too were, unhelpfully, in the car. Oh well,…