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  • Grundy makes move up

    Former freshman coach is new MHS boys’ varsity basketball coach By: Bob Nuse    Kris Grundy didn’t want to make any assumptions, but when the job as head boys’ basketball coach at Montgomery High opened up, he was ready to jump right in.    "Jeff (Tagliareni, the former coach) told me toward the end of last school…

  • Karin Court tenants urged to form group

    Benefits of residents’ organization cited by borough’s Housing Authority By: Marjorie Censer    The Housing Authority of the Borough of Princeton is taking steps to help Karin Court residents form a residents’ organization.    Toni Whitaker, the authority’s operations manager, hosted a recent meeting to provide information for residents on how to create a group that could…

  • Princeton Holiday Fund aims to help needy

    Neighbor helping neighbor effort begun more than 55 years ago    Once again, the Princeton Holiday Fund is reaching out to the Princeton community, continuing a long tradition of "neighbor helping neighbor" that was started more than 55 years ago by Donald Stuart and Dan Coyle.    Even in a town thought to be quite affluent, there…

  • Two fires, one suspicious, investigated at university

    In one incident, a sprinkler head was tampered with, preventing it from operating By: David Campbell    Fires broke out in two dormitories on the Princeton University campus early Sunday morning, one of which is being investigated as an act of arson, university spokeswoman Cass Cliatt said Wednesday.    Students in Lourie-Love and Scully halls were awakened…

  • Confident Naylor gives PHS early boost

    Cranbury resident starts well By: Justin Feil    Cranbury’s Jonathan Naylor began this winter feeling a lot more confident than last year about his ability to contribute to the Princeton High boys’ ice hockey team.    Naylor quickly overcame last year’s pre-season jitters to contribute four goals and five assists in his freshman year for a Little…

  • Local artist is a ‘wrong century’ realist

       MONROE — Artist Salomon Kadoche. By: Leon Tovey    MONROE — "I was born in the wrong century," Salomon Kadoche said Nov. 18, gesturing widely at the artistic clutter that fills the basement studio of his Greenbriar at Whittingham home: paintings on canvas and quick charcoal studies on paper piled here and there in the midst…

  • Borough Council shifts housing burden onto builders

    Amendments considered to lessen impact on homeowners By: Marjorie Censer    The Princeton Borough Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance that shifts the affordable-housing obligation created by residential and nonresidential development to builders — but council members said they would look immediately to amending the ordinance to be less onerous for homeowners.    The council voted 5-1…

  • Johnson Avenue proposal stirs objections from neighborhood

    Residents seem to agree with the need for more affordable housing in the Eggerts Crossing neighborhood. But a proposals for affordable units on township-owned land has sparked some opposition. By:Lea Kahn Staff Writer Few people would dispute the need for affordable housing or the desire to revitalize the Eggerts Crossing neighborhood, but a proposal to…

  • Grant to pay part of mandated stormwater work

    The state says the township must identify and locate all pipes emptying water into rivers and streams within a year. By: Melissa Edmond    The Township Committee will use a $20,619 state grant to defray the costs of a $45,000 contract needed to meet the state’s new stormwater regulations.    The contract was awarded to Maser Consulting…