Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • Also opposing Greenview condos

    Julie Fox of Princeton     We are getting used to seeing Robert Hillier’s name in our paper and also in our letters to the editor objecting to his projects for Princeton. Mr. Hillier’s next assault, will come before the zoning board of the borough for his project on little Greenview Avenue.    We wrote quite a…

  • Offended by WW official’s COAH comment

    Susan Conlon of West Windsor     I am writing in response to a comment published in The Princeton Packet article “WW faces lesser impact from new COAH rules, officials say” on Feb. 15. West Windsor council member Heidi Kleinman, in reference to potential increases in new regulations that may raise the percentage of units in…

  • TRINITY’S RUMMAGE SALE: An eye for value

    TRINITY’S RUMMAGE SALE: An eye for value

    Mitch Forest of Forest Jewelers in Princeton appraises jewelry donated to the Trinity Church Rummage Sale as parishioner Janet Haring looks on. Mr. Forest has been donating his expertise to the rummage sale for some 25 years and has kept the organizers from making some costly mistakes. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • SPOTLIGHT: Princeton Festival to celebrate ‘Belle Epoque’

        Richard Tang Yuk, artistic director of the Princeton Festival, has announced that the 2008 festival season — its fourth — will take audiences to the end of the 19th century and “la Belle Epoque” (“the beautiful era”) of impressionism, Art Nouveau, the can-can, high-spirited good living, and flourishing art, music and technology.     The…

  • LOOSE ENDS: Can the Girls Scouts rescue Jon Corzine?

    By Pam Hersh Special Writer     What Governor Jon Corzine needs these days is a box of Girl Scout cookies.     The value of the cookies for him and other political leaders lies not in the contents (although a few Thin Mints might provide the sugar rush for a quick mood elevation), but rather in…

  • Wm. Kristol speaks on 2008 election at Princeton U.

    PRINCETON — William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and columnist for The New York Times, will be among the panelists in a discussion titled "Election 2008: Where Do Things Go From Here? Conservative Perspectives" at 8 p.m.Wednesday in 219 Burr Hall. The panel will be moderated by Robert George, director of Princeton’s James Madison…

  • TRINITY’S RUMMAGE SALE: An eye for value

    TRINITY’S RUMMAGE SALE: An eye for value

        Year after year, the organizers of the Trinity Church Rummage Sale have been bringing donated trinkets to Mitch Forest at Princeton’s Forest Jewelers — and Mr. Forest makes sure that they get their money’s worth.     Just recently, in anticipation of Trinity’s 38th annual sale this weekend, committee members came by with their gleanings,…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: The American diet and how it got that way

    By Pat Tanner Special Writer     By now, many of us have read or heard this mantra from the cover of “In Defense of Food,” Michael Pollan’s latest book: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” He elaborates for 200 pages on how he came to endorse each of these directives, and he does so…

  • Opposing Hillier condos on Greenview Avenue

    Albert S. Gates of Princeton     I am writing about an application for zoning variances by Hillier Properties, LLC that involves tearing down three houses on Greenview Avenue and building a block of condos in their place. The Borough Zoning Board is scheduled to review this application on Thursday, February 28 at 8 p.m. in…