Author: Central Jersey
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PRINCETON: Town officials to seek to hire more minorities
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Princeton officials said Friday they want to have more minority employees in the municipal work force, a goal they intend to reach by advertising job openings more widely. They could not say what the racial makeup was of their 208 full-time employees, only that they feel diversity is a…
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PRINCETON: Garden Theatre to reopen Wednesday
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The Princeton University owned Garden Theatre on Nassau Street is due to reopen Wednesday after being closed for the past month while the new management team renovated the inside. The theater, a two-screen cinema that opened in 1920, got a new concession stand, carpet and light fixtures and other…
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PRINCETON: Parking rules to be on the agenda
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer When Mayor Liz Lempert spoke before business leaders last week, she touched on a subject that she likened to a "third rail." It wasn’t taxes, public safety or government spending. It was parking. Later this year, the Princeton Council will have to determine what parking regulations should be in…
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MONTGOMERY: 13 cars broken into, 2 stolen
By Geena Molinaro, Special Writer MONTGOMERY — Someone broke into 13 cars in the Montgomery Woods development between June 25 and 26, according to a Police Department press release. The release said a 2011 Kia Sorrento and a 2001 PT Cruiser, which had keys left inside, were stolen. Capt. James Curry said the PT Cruiser…
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WEST WINDSOR: Recycling day to change to every other Thursday
By Geena Molinaro, Special Writer The township’s recycling day will change to every other Thursday starting on July 3. Under the new schedule, holiday makeup days will switch to Saturdays. The Mercer County Improvement Authority (MCIA) made the decision to change multiple townships’ recycling schedules to improve services to these areas, said a press release…
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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Special Planning Board meeting set July 8
Stout-Chorley House and Scotch Road-area rezoning plan on agenda The Hopewell Township Planning Board has set a special meeting for Tuesday, July 8, at 7 p.m., at the Municipal Building (auditorium), 201 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville. The agenda is expected to include a review of a proposed ordinance from the Township Committee — the one…
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PRINCETON: Town a pit stop for tour buses?
Officials to discourage short-term visitors By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Every week, tour buses bring travelers to Princeton for a quick one- or two-hour visit that is long enough for them to snap some pictures, buy a coffee and use a restroom. Officials, however, see this kind of tourism as adding nothing to the…
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PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter
Princeton A man reported on June 28 at 11:41 p.m. that he got into a fight with another man outside of a restaurant on the first block of Witherspoon Street after the two had argued inside. The man who reported the event had a scrape on his forehead but refused medical treatment. The other man…
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Union Boy Scouts Take Part In Historic New Jersey 350th Anniversary Event at Kean’s Liberty Hall Museum
By Yankee Public Relations UNION, N.J. – The Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University recently hosted the Boy Scouts of America Patriots Path Council Historic Hike and Camporee with scouts from throughout the state camping out for three days on the grounds of the home of New Jersey’s first elected governor and signer of the…
