• PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    Princeton Borough    Thomas Mihlbachler, 37, of Vanwyck Dr., Princeton Junction, was arrested and charged with DWI on Chestnut St. at 1:35 a.m. on Sunday, July 24. He is scheduled to appear in court on August 1.    Anibal Solares, 34, of Witherspoon Street., was arrested and charged with DWI on John Street at 7:32 p.m. on…

  • Mercer County Community College Partners With Royal Karina Air Service to Provide Flight Training for Aviation Program

    By Saveria Symons West Windsor, NJ:  Mercer County Community College (MCCC) has entered into a partnership with Royal Karina Air Service (RKAS), based at Trenton Mercer Airport, which will operate the flight training component of the college’s Aviation Flight Technology program. Students will be able to begin the associate degree program when classes resume for…

  • Mercer County Community College to Offer Credit Courses at Hopewell Valley Central High School

    By Saveria Symons West Windsor, NJ:  Through a new agreement, Mercer County Community College will offer credit classes at Hopewell Valley Central High School beginning with the fall semester on August 29. The classes are open to all members of the community, including high school students above age 16 who are recommended by a teacher…

  • Two projects that need to go forward

    Jason Blum, Monmouth Junction To the editor: Will it ever end? As I write this I can think of four debates that seem intractable and all four deny the many for the very few.    The first concerns West Windsor’s plans to overhaul, for the public good, the Princeton Junction train station, into a town center…

  • PRINCETON: More than 100 teens volunteer time at library

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    A love of books inspired 14-year-old Gabrielle Lisk to volunteer at the Princeton Public Library over the summer.    ”I love books, so I decided I wanted to help other people to like books as much as I do,” said the Lawrenceville native. “I started reading when I was 3 before…

  • Help Lance find his centrist footing

    Michael Pratt, Skillman To the editor: I’d like to point out to my fellow Packet readers who live in the 7th Congressional district that our Republican congressman, Rep. Leonard Lance, voted to support the so-called “Cut, Cap, Amend” approach to our national budget debate.    It is a document that is far to the right of…

  • COMMUNITY RALLIES TO BREAK EDEN AUTISM 5K AND FUN RUN FUNDRAISING RECORD

    COMMUNITY RALLIES TO BREAK EDEN AUTISM 5K AND FUN RUN FUNDRAISING RECORD

    Runners at the start line for the 8th Annual Eden Autism 5K race sponsored by Munich Re.

  • PRINCETON: Local women meet on way to North Pole

    By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer    Plainsboro resident Rita Kusler and Princeton resident Ann Mantell met in an unusual way: they were on an icebreaker on their way from Murmansk, Russia, to the North Pole.    Ms. Kusler and Ms. Mantell traveled with the UK-based Quark Expeditions, an organization that arranges voyages to the North and South…

  • EDITORIAL: Just give in to the swelter

       How hot it is it? The question is famous as a vaudevillian setup for the old joke in which you can fill in the punch line as you wish.    With a rimshot of ba-doom-bah.    Whatever humor there has been in the triple-digit, energy-sapping weather of the past week has been worn away. We’re ready to…

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