LOOSE ENDS 6/26: Raising awareness for lung cancer
By Pam Hersh
Two weeks ago, I received an email from my friend Isabella de la Houssaye asking me to join her friends and family...
SOLUTIONS 6/19: Environmental Unraveling
By Huck Fairman
While many Americans are observing social distancing, working from home and not traveling, with the result that a majority of, if not...
LOOSE ENDS 6/19: Joe Greene and his company
By Pam Hersh
I am no Pollyanna, but I discovered several glass-is-half-full aspects of this COVID-19 pandemic. The very clean glass becomes even fuller when...
Opinion: Be aware of important New Jersey Primary Election changes
The League of Women Voters of the Princeton Area reminds the public of changes to the upcoming July 7 Primary Election. As a result...
State Health Insurance Assistance Programs help seniors navigate the Medicare maze
Every day, 10,000 people across the United States celebrate their 65th birthday and become eligible for enrollment in Medicare. Even without the additional challenge...
Urban farms taking off
By Michele S. Byers
When you think of farming in New Jersey, what comes to mind? Maybe huge rolling fields planted in rows of crops,...
SOLUTIONS 6/12: Fighting Trump’s Fuel-Efficiency Rollbacks
By Huck Fairman
Having watched President Donald Trump’s denials, delays, lies and wild forays into questionable medicine, as well as his appointing law-breaking, self-serving, incompetent...
Opinion: We must protect cancer patients during COVID-19 pandemic
I’m a volunteer for the American Cancer Society, writing on behalf of cancer survivors and their caregivers. I write out of concern for this...
LOOSE ENDS 6/5: Women who embody the YWCA mission honored
By Pam Hersh
On Friday, May 22, McCarter Theatre ’s retiring Artistic Director Emily Mann, also renowned as a playwright, asked me – and dozens...
A message from the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey
The images of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis are deeply disturbing. Mr. Floyd’s death is being investigated not only by the Hennepin County Attorney’s...
LOOSE ENDS 5/29: Princeton artist Ryan Stark Lilienthal
By Pam Hersh
In the current phase of social isolation life, I became particularly nostalgic for social mingling, when I walked past Small World (the...
Opinion: A season of loss, from COVID-19 to the ‘virus’ of racism
This has been a season of expectations and loss.
Only because I am an optimist and I have very good friends who give me cause...
NJSIAA begins to plan for students’ return to high school sports in New Jersey
By Mary Liz Ivins
In my decades as an educator and school administrator, I’m hard pressed to find a situation as challenging as what we...
Opinion: How to prioritize mental health during pandemic
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and in the time of the novel coronavirus pandemic, mental health has never mattered more.
The pandemic is exacting...
LOOSE ENDS 5/22: Reopening of Alexander Road pales in comparison to COVID-19 crisis
By Pam Hersh
In hyperbolic language similar to what I hear from my six-year-old grandson, several of my friends declared a few months ago that...
SOLUTIONS 5/15: Community or Company Aggregation
By Huck Fairman
As a long time Princeton resident, I have been interested in, and have written a
number of, Packet opinion pieces on the climate...
LOOSE ENDS 5/15: Cranbury Station Gallery virtual classes ‘help keep it together’
by Pam Hersh
The good news is that artist and business entrepreneur Kathy Morolda, the owner of Cranbury Station Gallery (CSG) in Princeton and Monroe,...
LOOSE ENDS 5/8: The upsides of a virtual gala
By Pam Hersh
My friends are worried that the COVID-19 social distancing has made me go off the deep end – into a pool of...
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