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Vol. LXV, No. 40
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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Vol. LXV, No. 40
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
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 (Photo by Frank Wojciechowski)
BREAKING THROUGH: Princeton University football quarterback Tommy Wornham breaks through a Columbia defender last Saturday night at Princeton Stadium. Wornham passed for 194 yards and rushed for 55 in the game to help Princeton edge the Lions 24-21. The victory snapped Princeton’s program-record 10-game losing streak. For more details on the game, see page 33.
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The paring down of the United States Postal Service has hit home for Princeton patrons. The agency is planning to sell its Palmer Square station, though a spokesman says no final decision has been made.
Consolidation is without question the subject du jour in Princeton, and it’s likely to remain a hot-button issue until November 8, when residents of both municipalities get to vote for or against it.
The ongoing debate about consolidating Princeton Borough and Township continued at a joint meeting of Borough Council and Township Committee last Tuesday, September 27 at Borough Hall. Following a statement by Consolidation and Shared Services Commission Chairman Anton Lahnston, several residents of both municipalities expressed their views on the merger. The consolidation question will be on the ballot for voters November 8.
Riverside Elementary School enjoyed the distinction of being New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher’s first stop in a kick-off event for the first “Jersey Fresh Farm to School Week.”
The new and improved “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) announced last week between Princeton University, Princeton Borough, and Princeton Township reflects a summer of negotiations by a six-member committee from the three entities. Robert K. Durkee, who represented the University, has high hopes that the revamping will result in approval by the two governing bodies, giving the green light to the University’s plan for a $300 million arts and transit complex that would include moving the Dinky station.
Several days in advance of the August 30 meeting at which the Board of Education was supposed to announce which of two proposals it had chosen for the disposition of the Valley Road Building, the Board announced that it was postponing the decision until the autumn.
It looked like the Princeton University football team was headed for a recurring nightmare.
Sabrina King knows what it takes to lead the Princeton University women’s volleyball team to the Ivy League championship.
Competing in the high-powered Shore Coaches Invitational meet last Saturday without one of its frontrunners, the Princeton High boys’ cross country team seemingly had little chance to win the Varsity C title.
Standing a shade over 5’0 and weighing 100 pounds soaking wet, Emma Quigley looks like she would get run over in the traffic jams around the goal that are a staple of field hockey.
Stefanie Fox is determined to create a positive atmosphere around the Hun School field hockey team.
My father used to make gifts appear “by magic.” He’d go abracadabra and point to a chair and presto, I’d find a comic under the cushion. My mother’s magic was unannounced. For all I knew, she wasn’t even there when I walked in and saw four open-faced peanut butter and jelly sandwiches neatly arranged, two above, two below, on the kitchen table. Made with Wonder Bread no doubt. My mother must have been in the room, pouring a glass full of cold milk, but I only had eyes for those little darlings on the plate.
Vast character stretches are the order of the day in Theatre Intime’s production of Neil Simon’s dark, comic, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Lost in Yonkers (1991), running through October 8 at the Murray Dodge Theater on the Princeton University campus. This portrait of a troubled family’s struggles during the war years of the early 1940s focuses on two teen-aged boys and their ten-month stay at their austere grandmother’s Yonkers apartment, where they learn more than they bargained for about their fierce grandma, their mentally slow Aunt Bella, their Bogart-style, underworld Uncle Louie, and other challenges of coming of age.