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Witherspoon-Jackson Neighborhood Celebrated By Arts Council Quilt
Candace Braun
A permanent tribute to Princeton's historical Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood was unveiled by the Arts Council of Princeton on Sunday: a hand-crafted quilt by West Windsor quilter Gail Mitchell.
PDS Receives $11 Million For Financial Aid Program
Candace Braun
Princeton Day School Trustee Bob Carr and his wife, Jill Carr, have donated $11 million to the private school to fund financial aid grants to underprivileged families who would otherwise be unable to send their children to a private school like PDS.
Borough Residents Band Together To Prevent Razing of "Jane's House"
Matthew Hersh
Nearly a dozen residents of the Jugtown section of Princeton Borough gathered last week before Borough Council to keep a private developer from tearing down a South Harrison Street home that they feel is essential to the character of the neighborhood.
YMCA's After-School Program Begins This Fall at Witherspoon
Candace Braun
Sports, tutoring, tap dance classes and a fashion and design history course will all be offered as part of a new after-school program for students that will begin October 3 at John Witherspoon Middle School.
Borough Couple Take AIDS Awareness To The Pavement in 250-Mile Bike Tour
Matthew Hersh
In the late 1980s, when Borough Councilman Andrew Koontz started his professional career as a television editor, headlines were dominated by the spread, and the subsequent fear of, AIDS and HIV — the virus that causes the immune deficiency syndrome.
SAVE Receives Large Donation From Appreciative Pet Owner
Candace Braun
SAVE recently received a donation of $1,000 from the owner of a dog that was adopted from Princeton's no-kill animal shelter three years ago. The donor was 12-year-old Alanna Allen, a seventh grader at Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School in Somerset County.
Proposed Seven-Home Subdivision Approved Amid Legal Wrangling
Matthew Hersh
Following an emotional session marked by legal stand-offs including a threat of arrest, the Regional Planning Board of Princeton last Thursday unanimously approved plans to build seven homes on a 15-acre parcel near the corner of Van Dyke Road and Snowden Lane.
Book Review: The Ultimate Shock and Awe
Stuart Mitchner
Two simple numbers have come to stand for the defining catastrophe of our time. Try it with Pearl Harbor — 12/7? Hiroshima: 8/6? Would 10/11 work as well as 9/11? What if it had happened on the eleventh of July? With 7/11 you'd end up inadvertently associating the attack on the World Trade Center with a chain of convenience stores. As it happens, the way 9 and 11 go together gave the media (and the rest of us) the formula needed to reduce the "day of infamy" (as FDR titled 7/41) to a shorthand perfectly representative of the e-mail era.
