By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
Borough officials have asked their attorney to provide them legal advice on what the official name of the consolidated municipality will be.
Borough Councilman Roger Martindell said Tuesday that officials also requested attorney Maeve E. Cannon to provide an opinion on who has the discretion to decide the name and what kinds of names can be chosen.
Mr. Martindell, favoring “Princeton” for its simplicity, said the issue needs to be addressed given that the name and still undecided logo of the municipality will have to go on government vehicles, letterhead and employee uniforms. “We should know that sooner rather than later,” before spending money, Mr. Martindell said in phone interview.
”It is an identity issue how we see ourselves,” he said.
Ms. Cannon did not return a phone call seeking comment.
The question about the name came into focus as a contest sponsored by the Arts Council is going on to see who can create a logo for the town. One of the contest rules stated the design had to have the words “town of Princeton” in it.
To township officials, the name issue was decided last year. Township Deputy Mayor Liz Lempert said Tuesday that the name of the consolidated community will be Princeton, based on language in the referendum that voters in the two communities passed in November to form one town.
Ms. Lempert, who is running for mayor this fall, said the Township Committee addressed the logo contest last week.
She said her colleague, Township Committeeman Bernard P. Miller, suggested the logo be required to have Princeton, New Jersey in it, since there are other towns in America named Princeton.
Ten states including New Jersey are home to a community by that name, according to information on the Internet search engine Google.
This comes with officials still needing to chose names for Borough Hall and the Township municipal building when the two towns merge. Some recent suggestions have included the Monument Building for Borough Hall and the Witherspoon Building for the township building.
For his part, Mr. Martindell said he felt the township building should be “Town Mahal,” a take off on Taj Mahal.

