Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • Decline Chatham building application

    Ellen Foos of Princeton    Why would the Princeton Planning Board (both Borough and Township) vote to curtail Princeton’s freedom to choose the lands it wants to develop? And to have its own zoning ordinances deemed null? This is the strange possibility the Planning Board will face when it meets ThursDay.    The Chatham development company, owner…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Enjoying a genuine ‘Wild Night’ with the Wilkinsons

    IN THE KITCHEN: Enjoying a genuine ‘Wild Night’ with the Wilkinsons

    Matt Wilkinson adjusting the seasoning of the Butternut Squash Soup with Cider Cream he was preparing for his annual ‘Wild Night’ dinner of gourmet fare. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Enjoying a genuine ‘Wild Night’ with the Wilkinsons

    IN THE KITCHEN: Enjoying a genuine ‘Wild Night’ with the Wilkinsons

    An annual ‘Wild Night’ dinner of gourmet fare featuring foods Matt Wilkinson ‘has personally hunted, fished, raised, grown, culled or foraged’ By Pat Tanner Special Writer     You might call the annual dinner party at the Princeton home of Janelle and Matt Wilkinson the wildest night of the year. In fact, the Wilkinsons and their…

  • CURTAIN UP! Dedication brings an actor ‘back home’ to Broadway

    Katharine Powell … From Princeton Day School to the Great White Way By Adam Grybowski Staff Writer     After two years at Washington University in St. Louis, Katharine Powell dropped out and moved to New York City to become a professional actor. She had no agent, no professional experience and no idea how to make…

  • BREAKING NEWS QUESTION: What is your reaction to Tuesday’s election results?

    The Princeton Packet Municipal offices in Princeton Township and Borough and Montgomery Township were among those decided Tuesday, along with State Senate and Assembly seats and four statewide ballot questions. Share your views on the results.

  • Red meat and cancer

    Ivan Slotsky of Princeton     A landmark study released recently by the prestigious World Cancer Research Fund has found a “convincing” link between consumption of red and all processed meats and an elevated risk of colon cancer, as well as a “likely” link with cancers of the lung, stomach, pancreas, esophagus, prostate, and uterus. The…

  • HEALTH MATTERS: Resistant staph, in perspective

    While MRSA has been a real part of our lives and poses new concerns because of its spread into community-associated settings, there are simple, everyday steps you can take to lower your risk of infection. By David J. Herman, M.D. Special to The Packet     The drug-resistant staph infection called MRSA is not a new…

  • Let’s preserve Princeton Ridge

    Jane Buttars of Princeton     The Princeton Ridge is again threatened. Robert Hillier has proposed building 146 condo units north of the Princeton Shopping Center on Bunn Drive. This land has, for almost 50 years, been designated by experts as “environmentally valuable” and a “critical habitat” for many species. Both the Princeton Environmental Commission and…

  • Lamenting fate of 1860 House

    Poona Pant, Suzanne Hunt, Lucy Graves McViker, Jean Davidson     As members of the Friday watercolor class at the Montgomery Center for the Arts, it is with great sadness and shock we read of the center’s financial demise and the 1860 House’s imminent closing (The Packet, Nov. 2).    For those of us who attended classes,…