Author: Central Jersey
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PENNINGTON: Santa rolls into town for Holiday Walk
Santa Claus rolled into Pennington on a fire truck Friday night for the borough’s 32nd Holiday Walk, sponsored by the Pennington Business and Professional Association. Enjoying the relatively mild early winter night, a crowd had gathered under and around a tent on the Howe Commons on Main Street for the festivities marking the start of…
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PRINCETON: Municipality rejects university’s applications for Butler Tract demolition permits
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The municipality on Wednesday rejected Princeton University’s applications for demolition permits for tearing down its former graduate housing complex known as the Butler Tract. Construction official John Pettenati said he wants to see more detailed plans from the university, which is seeking to tear down the some 115 structures…
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LAWRENCE: Pennsylvania man shatters driver’s window with flashlight in road rage incident
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer LAWRENCE — A road rage incident that started in Pennsylvania and ended on Lawrence Road resulted in an assortment of charges filed against an Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, man after he shattered another driver’s car window with a flashlight, according to the Police Department. Louis Eric Freeman, 54, was charged with…
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PRINCETON: Police seek help in locating three believed involved in theft at restaurant
By Leah Kahn, Staff Writer The Princeton Police Department is asking for help in tracking down two women and a man who were involved in the theft of a wallet from a patron at the Panera Bread restaurant at 136 Nassau St. on Nov. 8. The suspects used the victim’s credit card to make purchases…
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HOPEWELL: Harvest Fair gives community grants
On Dec. 2, the Hopewell Harvest Fair gave away $4,000 in grants to 22 local nonprofit organizations. The Harvest Fair grant program, which has now distributed more than $200,000 in funds in almost 30 years, is a result of the community coming out to support the Hopewell Harvest Fair. Representatives from many of organizations joined…
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PRINCETON: Nearly three years later, consolidation advocates tout benefits of merging borough, township
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer On the first day of 2013, Mayor Liz Lempert proclaimed that the historic merger of the borough and the township that took effect that morning would succeed, a model for not just the state but the entire nation to follow. “Today, with the beginning of our newly consolidated government,…
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PRINCETON: 90-year-old man on scooter crashes into back of dump truck, suffers only minor injuries
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer A 90-year-old man was injured when he fell off the scooter he was riding after it struck the back of a Mack truck on Cherry Hill Road shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Princeton Police Department. William F. Otis, Jr., 90, of Princeton, was traveling south on Cherry…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Mock ‘birthday party’ for Doris Duke holds somber tone
By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor There was a sheet cake and cone-shaped party hats, but Sunday’s 103rd “birthday party” for Doris Duke grew a bit somber at times. Objectors to the demolition of the residence of the reclusive philanthropist on the 2,500-acre estate in northern Hillsborough held the symbolic party in the Duke Island County…
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PRINCETON: Preservation commission debates merits of proposed Witherspoon-Jackson historic district
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer The Historic Preservation Commission met Monday afternoon to discuss the fate of the proposed Witherspoon-Jackson local historic district before about a dozen interested citizens at Witherspoon Hall. The commission met last week to listen to consultant Robert Wise outline the rationale for the historic district, whose boundaries would be John…
