Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Police Blotter

    Princeton Borough    Debra Anne Marino, 42, of Plainsboro, was charged with credit card fraud at 9:12 p.m. Friday. Ms. Marino was arrested after an investigation revealed she had used a stolen credit card to purchase alcohol from Varsity Liquors on Nassau Street, police said. She was transported to police headquarters, processed and released after posting…

  • Defeating depression

    Defeating depression

    Haley Worsthorn, 20, of Montgomery, is now a nursing and psychology student at Rutgers University. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • WW Arts Council building study completed

    Structure can now be brought up to code By Greg Forester Staff Writer        WEST WINDSOR — An environmental study of the Princeton Junction Firehouse property has been completed, and now the structure can be brought up to code for use as the new home of the West Windsor Arts Council, township officials said Thursday.    The…

  • Food 101: Grow it yourselves

    Food 101: Grow it yourselves

    Princeton University junior Ruthie Schwab tends the garden project near Forbes College on Thursday morning. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • As he remembers Luciano Pavarotti

    As he remembers Luciano Pavarotti

    William W. Lockwood, left, with Luciano Pavarotti, following the tenor’s appearance in Princeton in 1980.

  • Plainsboro library construction project is put out to bid

    Planned for village center in 2009 By Greg Forester Staff Writer        PLAINSBORO — Township officials have put the construction portion of the library project out to bid as they move ahead with the plan to bring a bigger and better library to the Plainsboro Village Center in 2009.    A foundation of funding for the project…

  • In her hot pink book store, she is the ‘top banana’

    In her hot pink book store, she is the ‘top banana’

    Catering to a literary niche By Lauren Otis Business Editor     Watch out all you drab and serious Princeton book merchants, Chicklet Books has come to town, flaunting it’s hot pink inner bibliophile.     Deb Hunter, owner of Chicklet Books in Hillsborough, Glen Echo Books on Nassau Street in Princeton and a wholesaling business —…

  • In her hot pink book store, she is the ‘top banana’

    In her hot pink book store, she is the ‘top banana’

    Deb Hunter of Chicklet Books in her store window. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski.

  • As he remembers Luciano Pavarotti

    As he remembers Luciano Pavarotti

    William Lockwood booked tenor at McCarter in 1980 By Michael Redmond Lifestyle Editor    His is one of the unforgettable images of 20th-century show business — that bear of a man, bearded and richly dressed, clutching a white handkerchief, mouth wide open, shooting tones of molten gold into the stratosphere. To millions of people throughout the…