• Kudos to environment film festival in Princeton

    Grace Sinden, Princeton To the editor: Kudos for the excellent Princeton Environmental Film Festival held over the past three weekends in the Princeton Public Library.    Special appreciation and thanks to the library, its director, Leslie Burger, to Susan Conlon the library’s director of the Film Festival since its inception six years ago,to Sustainable Princeton, the…

  • Thanks for meeting, delaying Route 1 test

    Carly Meyer, Princeton Merchants Association To the editor: On behalf of The Princeton Merchants Association and the business community of Princeton, we would like to thank Commissioner James Simpson and the Department of Transportation for meeting with members of our board and those members representing Princeton University recently.    The discussion regarding the trial experiment on…

  • Martindell letter was baffling

    Mayor Chad Goerner, Princeton Township To the editor: I am writing in response to Councilman Roger Martindell’s baffling letter (“Task Force Needs to Reinvent Government”) that appeared in the Feb. 14 issue of the Princeton Packet.    Perhaps Mr. Martindell did not read the resolution that he voted for establishing the Transition Task Force (TTF) because…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Area sends 30 to MOC track

    Sport change benefits Banks By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    They were tough decisions, but Chris Banks elected to move to two different sports as a senior in preparation for a future on the track.    The West Windsor-Plainsboro North senior moved from football to soccer in the fall, and this winter, he stopped playing basketball…

  • CHESTERFIELD: A child is dead; a community mourns

    Three seriously injured in school bus accident By Birgitta Wolfe, Managing Editor CHESTERFIELD — The community is mourning the death of 11-year-old Isabelle Tezsla who died Feb. 16 when her school bus en route to Chesterfield Elementary School collided with a dump truck and critically injured the triplet’s two sisters and another boy. Sophie Tezsla…

  • Common sense needed for Route 1 solutions

    Philip Rhodes, Princeton To the editor: The crossings of Route 1 at Princeton have been a victim of bad planning and a political football for 10 years. At that point in time, as traffic jams grew, there was an obvious and relatively low cost solution.    This solution had two parts; (1) add a second lane…

  • PRINCETON: Tigers keep title hopes alive

    Bray steady for PU men’s basketball By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Riding a four-game winning streak and playing its best basketball of the season, the Princeton University men’s basketball team appears to be peaking at the right time.    In any other league in the country that would mean the Tigers were playing their best as…

  • Letter missed the point about protests

    Paul Budline, Princeton To the editor: The Rev. Robert Moore managed to write a 400-word letter without ever addressing the main point of my As I See It piece, “Where Have All the Protests Gone?”    This has nothing to do with Kosovo, Clinton or other history. The simple fact is that our current president has…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: U.S. Marshals help catch fugitive

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: U.S. Marshals help catch fugitive

    By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor U.S. Marshals helped police capture a Trenton man who allegedly tried to elude an officer by going the wrong way on Route 1, according to police. The incident started at 8 p.m. Jan. 28 as Patrolman Michael Leung was conducting radar patrol at Route 1 and Independence Way, Sgt.…

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