Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2000
GETTING IN
MASTERING THE ADMISSIONS INTERVIEW AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

A midsummer's walk down Nassau Street reveals two changes in the general atmosphere; the first is that traffic has let up. The second is the increase of threesomes walking around the streets — two parents and a college age son or daughter who have come to look at Princeton University.  Story
Writing for your life — the admissions essay

Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2000
PRINCETON GROUP SEEKS TO EASE U.S.-IRAN TENSIONS
AMERICAN IRANIAN COUNCIL AIMS FOR NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS

In a cramped but neat office off Nassau Street, Hooshang Amirahmadi explains why the United States cannot ignore Iran: His native country contains 75 percent of the world's energy resources and 45 million of its 65 million people are under 30 years old.  Story

Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2000
SOLDIER'S HONORS COME HALF-CENTURY LATE
FOR 'GI CARRYING A GUN,' A LONG-OVERDUE TRIBUTE

It took almost 55 years for Percy Siskowitz of Princeton to receive his Purple Heart for valor in World War II. The 92-year-old was presented with the medal by U.S. Rep. Rush Holt at a ceremony at the Merwick unit of The Medical Center at Princeton.  Story

Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2000
N.J. DEMS TO PLAY KEY CONVENTION ROLES
BRADLEY, MENENDEZ TO SPEAK WHILE CORZINE WILL LEAD DELEGATION

Members of the New Jersey Delegation will play central roles in the Democratic National Convention in LA. Former Sen. Bill Bradley will speak following Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Senate candidate Jon Corzine will be delegation chairman.  Story

Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2000
OPEN-SPACE TAX BACKED FOR HIKE
USE OF EXISTING TRACTS DEBATED

On a night when the Princeton Township Committee unanimously approved putting a 2-cent open-space tax on the November ballot, it also decided Monday to apply to the state to remove restrictions on several open-space parcels.  Story

Monday, Aug. 14, 2000
WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE
ROCKINGHAM ON THE MOVE, AGAIN

Rockingham is moving again. But perhaps it is fitting that Gen. George Washington's last headquarters hasn't halted. For in those last months of the Revolutionary War, when the general lived at Rockingham, he — and the American government — seemed always to be on the road.  Story
No easy move

Monday, Aug. 14, 2000
AUDUBON CENTER COMING TO PLAINSBORO
600-ACRE PRESERVE TO HOST NATURE AND EDUCATION CENTER

The Plainsboro Preserve, scheduled to open to the public this month, is expected to be the site of an Audubon Society-run nature center next year. Plans were unveiled last week for a 6,500-square-foot Environmental Nature and Education Center.  Story

Monday, Aug. 14, 2000
STATE DEP CITES 3M FOR POLLUTION OF STREAM
MONTGOMERY BOARD OF HEALTH ASKS FIRM TO MONITOR AIR QUALITY

The state Department of Environmental Protection has cited the 3M plant in Belle Mead for an unpermitted discharge of nontoxic stone dust into Montgomery Township waterways. And the Board of Health asked 3M to return next month with plans to monitor airborne dust.  Story

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000
MIXED RESULTS IN CRIME REPORT
PRINCETONS FARE WELL; OTHER LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES DON'T

Crime dropped 6 percent across New Jersey last year and declined in the Princetons, according to the 1999 Crime Report, issued this week. But the crime rate rose significantly in Montgomery and West Windsor, two growing communities in the Central Jersey area.  Story

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000
STORM DAMAGES PARK'S THEATER
AN UNEXPECTED ENTRANCE RESULTS IN A DRAMATIC IMPACT

The Princeton Repertory Company suffered an estimated $10,000 loss this week when a thunderstorm wreaked havoc with the company's equipment at the site of its Shakespeare Festival shows in Community Park North's Pettoranello Gardens.  Story

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000
'NO ONE IS SAFE,' SAYS MEGAN'S MOM
MAUREEN KANKA GIVES TALK ON 'STRANGER SAFETY' FOR PARENTS

"My son Jeremy came to me and asked, 'Who is OK and who is not?' This was on the heels of Megan's death," Maureen Kanka said this week during a talk she gave sponsored by the Princeton Family YMCA and the West Windsor Police Department.  Story

Friday, Aug. 11, 2000
SHOCK AND SHRUGS FOLLOW BANK ROBBERY
SECURITY CAMERAS MISSED SUSPECT, BUT SKETCH BEING DRAWN UP

Merchants and shoppers expressed mixed feelings this week as the investigation continued into Monday's armed robbery of the Third Federal Savings Bank in the Princeton Shopping Center and the suspect remained at large.  Story

Thursday, Aug. 10, 2000
PRO SOCCER TEAM EYES MILLSTONE SITE
NEW JERSEY STALLIONS SEEKING MONMOUTH, OCEAN STOMPING GROUNDS

A professional men's soccer team has expressed interest in building a sports facility in Millstone Township. The New Jersey Stallions soccer club wants to build a soccer field and spectator seating for up to 5,000 fans on about 40 acres on Route 526.  Story

Thursday, Aug. 10, 2000
SCAM ARTISTS PREY ON ELDERLY VICTIMS
REPAVING, TREE-TRIMMING, LAWN-CUTTING ARE AMONG THEIR TRICKS

Three men stopped to talk to an 80-year-old resident about paving her driveway. By the time the victim realized one of the men had followed her into the house to find out where she kept the money, it was too late. The men had cleaned out her purse, and left the area.  Story

Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000
PAYING THEIR FINAL RESPECTS
RABBI'S HEADSTONE CEREMONY DRAWS 3,000

A throng of Jewish mourners from New York traveled to South Brunswick Tuesday morning to the cemetery where their religious leader was laid to rest last week. Three thousand Bobov Hasidic Jews attended a ceremony unveiling the headstone of Grand Rabbi Solomon Halberstam at a Jewish graveyard on Deans Rhode Hall Road.  Story

Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000
INVASION OF THE GIANT CABBAGES
SUMMER'S BOUNTY ABOUNDS AT THE TRENTON FARMERS MARKET

Mammoth-sized cabbages, peaches, corn and more are in abundance at the Trenton Farmers Market. Ask many of the farmers how many years their farm has been coming and the most common response will be "about 50 years." And those are only the ones who have been trucking their produce to the "new" Spruce Street location.  Story

Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000
LOOSE ENDS
TRADITION OF GRAVITAS THRIVES HERE

In an effort to be included within the spirit of inclusion characterizing the upcoming presidential election, Packet columnist Pam Hersh did a poll asking whether Princeton has "gravitas," touted as a crucial quality for those who intend to lead America into the 21st century.  Story

Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2000
HELPING VOLUNTEERS FIND A GOOD MATCH
VOLUNTEER CLEARINGHOUSE CONNECTS PEOPLE AND NONPROFITS

Are you a person wishing to spend some time volunteering? Or a nonprofit organization looking for volunteers? There's a Princeton Borough-based nonprofit organization that can help. Hands On Helpers connects volunteer hopefuls with nonprofit groups.  Story

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