Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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Turnpike toll hikes threaten local roads
Dave Saltzman of Princeton Governor Corzine’s financial restructuring plan is exactly the opposite of what is in Princeton’s best interests. Massive toll increases will be an even greater incentive to avoid the Turnpike and take Route 206 to get from free I-78 to free I-95 in Lawrenceville/Ewing. This is horrendously bad public policy: the…
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Thanks on behalf of Environmental Film Festival
Susan Conlon of the Princeton Public Library I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to the people of Princeton and the greater region who came out for the 2008 Princeton Environmental Film Festival held Jan. 2-6 and Jan. 12 at the Princeton Public Library. It was an opportunity to watch films and…
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Oppose housing on Princeton Ridge
Casey Lambert of Princeton A letter in the January 15 edition of The Packet purports to correct misinformation being circulated about the Hillier project. While the writer’s first point, regarding the upcoming ordinance vote, is correct, much of what follows cannot be allowed to stand. The coy use of quote marks around “preserving the…
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Treat graffiti like murder
Ethan C. Finley of Princeton At this moment there are graffiti sightings in three different parts of Princeton Township. On the corner of Washington Road and Faculty Road, near the Princeton University campus, there is graffiti on a computerized metal traffic box; on Rosedale Road a graffiti outlaw placed graffiti on a white and…
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Despoiling pristine woodlands
Bill Moran of Princeton Why is it, after the endless struggle of millennia that enabled mankind to escape the forest primeval, that some of us insist on dwelling in our precious natural resource, the Princeton Ridge? What atavistic urge impels those who would despoil these pristine woodlands (or what is left of them)? This…
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BOOK NOTES: ‘Northern Exposure,’ but for real
‘If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name’ is a valentine to small town living. At first glance, Heather Lende is just spinning stories about life in Akaska. But then the symmetry of the book emerges as By Joan Ruddiman Special Writer Heather Lende’s first book, “If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name”…
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LIVING WELL: Take a deep breath
’Yoga breathing exercises are most effective in helping people cope with stress, increase their energy level and recover from fatigue,’ says Deborah Metzger, director of the Princeton Center for Yoga & Health. By Deborah Metzger Princeton Center for Yoga & Health Are you really breathing? OK, so you’re thinking, “She’s got to be…
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LOOSE ENDS: Let’s try dates instead of meetings
‘The idea of the two Princeton municipalities consolidating is so old and so ho-hum that no one even listens any longer.’ By Pam Hersh Special Writer Enough already. I need no more lists delineating how I fail to get it together on many different fronts. I know I do not: eat right, sleep…
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Misinformation on Bunn Drive site
Rogie Rome of Princeton I am writing to correct some of the misinformation being circulated about the proposed zoning amendment and about the Bunn Drive site. The Township Committee is not meeting to approve Hillier’s plan. It is, rather, introducing an ordinance to amend and improve an already-existing ordinance that allows senior housing on…
