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  • Princeton High School taking aim at tardiness

    Get-tough policy could mean loss of academic credit for serial offenders. By: Rachel Silverman    Forget about the old "I had to go to the bathroom" excuse and don’t even think about hitting the snooze button. Princeton High School is taking student tardiness seriously these days.    According to a resolution introduced Monday afternoon at a Board…

  • Zoners nix cell tower

       The zoning board unanimously denied Omnipoint Communications’ request Wednesday to build a 150-foot cellular tower on Plainsboro Road. By: Elaine Worden    The zoning board unanimously denied Omnipoint Communications’ request Wednesday to build a 150-foot cellular tower on Plainsboro Road.    The board, which declined the application of a use variance and a minor site plan, expressed…

  • One-year teacher deal ratified, 3-year pact delayed

       The school board has approved a one-year contract with the Cranbury Education Association, but left a separate three-year deal to be addressed in April after the school board elections. By:Josh Appelbaum    The school board has approved a one-year contract with the Cranbury Education Association, but left a separate three-year deal to be addressed in April…

  • Library Place sheriff’s sale brings in $3.35 million

    Mortgage company buys house of investor charged with defrauding federal agency. By: Gwen McNamara    Going, going … gone. The Princeton Borough home of embattled local businessman John Torkelsen and his wife, Pamela, was sold for $3.35 million at a sheriff’s sale Wednesday.    PMJ Capital Corp., a Greenwich Conn.-based mortgage company holding a second mortgage on…

  • POCKETS OF NEED: Locals help Food Pantry reach record numbers

    POCKETS OF NEED: Part of an occasional series focusing on issues of hunger and financial need in South Brunswick. By: Joseph Harvie    The township helped a record number of families in need this year and received enough donations to make its annual Holiday Program a success, said LouAnne Wolf, director of Social Services.    Ms. Wolf…

  • Strike slows Princeton garbage collection

    Waste Management service in borough and township affected. By: Jennifer Potash    A strike by a sanitation union has not caused serious garbage woes for Princeton Borough and Princeton Township this week, but municipal officials are examining a number of options in the event the strike lasts for a longer period of time.    The borough’s trash…

  • OBITUARIES: Joseph A. Stevenson

    Joseph A. Stevenson    Joseph A. Stevenson, 83, of Hightstown, died Tuesday, Jan. 11, at the University Medical Center at Princeton.    Born in Atlantic City, he was a longtime resident of Central New Jersey before recently moving to Hightstown. He is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of World War II, serving in the Guadalcanal and South…

  • Professor brings Homer to life in visit to Princeton High School

    Robert Fagles reads from his much-acclaimed translation of "The Odyssey." By: Rachel Silverman    The world of ancient Greek mythology came to life Wednesday afternoon at Princeton High School as Princeton University Professor Robert Fagles read part of his much-acclaimed translation of "The Odyssey" to the entire freshman class.    The 357 ninth-grade students had just completed…

  • Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Chen leads PHS girls’ ice hockey to victory By: Justin Feil    As a freshman, Vicki Chen told Princeton High girls’ ice hockey coach Matt Becan that she was a defenseman. He used her on offense and the rest, as they say, is history.    Chen was the leading scorer for the Little Tigers as a freshman.…