Category: archives

  • Letter: Land swap is necessary

    To the editor:     There is a fair bit of hypocrisy in Monroe. Park Savers are strongly opposed to the idea of the new high school for Monroe taking up 35 acres of what is currently Thompson Park.    While the Park Savers’ point is semi-valid, it is imperative to note that a solution to the…

  • WW near salary pact with CWA union local

    By: Gwen McNamara    WEST WINDSOR — One of three township labor unions with contracts in limbo since the end of last year has agreed to settle.    The membership of the Communication Workers of America Local 1032 ratified a new three-year contract Wednesday night.    The contract provides the union’s approximately 73 white- and blue-collar workers with…

  • Princeton Packet Softball Player of the Year

    Heller continues to improve for Cougars By: Justin Feil    Amanda Heller worried only a little bit about how her encore to an outstanding freshman season would go. After all, she wasn’t going to be a surprise to Montgomery High softball opponents, who had managed just 0.70 earned runs a game last year off the left-hander.…

  • Kreps students give Locks of Love

    Middle school students, parents and staff members donated hair to help ill children. By: David Pescatore    EAST WINDSOR — Twenty-two students, parents and staff members of the Melvin H. Kreps Middle School donated their hair to sick children last week, during a ceremony culminating nearly two years of effort.    Over the past year, the Kreps…

  • Long list of borough road repairs likely to cause delays

    Hamilton Avenue, Jefferson Road, Madison Street, John-Witherspoon neighborhod, Elm Road, University Place … and the list goes on. By: Jennifer Potash    With several road-repair and reconstruction projects under way in Princeton Borough and even more to begin this summer and fall, motorists can expect to confront frequent delays and detours.    A reconstruction and repair program…

  • Letter: Appreciation for post-prom event

    To the editor:     We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Princeton and Cranbury communities for helping to make this year’s Princeton High School Post Prom Party a huge success.    More than 400 students attended the "Viva Las Vegas" festivities on Saturday, May 17 after the Junior-Senior Prom and a great time…

  • Scrap-yard owner guilty of noise ordinance violations

    Basin Street resident says neighbors trying to drive him out of business. By: David Campbell    Ziya Polat of Princeton Recycles, a scrap yard off Basin Street, was back in Municipal Court last week due to noise complaints by neighbors.    On June 3, Princeton Municipal Court Judge Russell W. Annich Jr. found Mr. Polat guilty of…

  • Court dismisses tax collector case

    Mindi Gyimesi was placed on administrative leave last year after $100 was missing from a deposit. By: David Pescatore    EAST WINDSOR — The case against a former township tax collector was dismissed last week, less than a year after she was suspended due to accusations she tried to cover up a $100 shortage in a…

  • Nelle Grazide

       Nelle Grazide, 81, died Tuesday, June 10, at the Compassionate Care Hospice at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton.    Born in Plainfield, she also lived in North Plainfield and Edison for 37 years before moving to Rossmoor in 1985.    Her husband, Omar E. Grazide died in 1978. She is survived by two daughters, Carole B.…