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  • Bill to be $68,000 for garage review

    Attorney will prepare agreement for Borough Council approval Tuesday By: Jennifer Potash    The Princeton Borough Council will pay a New York firm $68,000 to conduct an economic and architectural feasibility study of a downtown parking garage.    The borough’s attorneys will draw up a professional-services agreement for Desman Associates for the council’s approval at its Tuesday…

  • EDITORIAL: Cellphone bans are unnecessary

       It’s one of those things that drives some people crazy.    You’re driving down the highway, obeying the speed limit, paying attention and being careful, when suddenly, a late-model SUV flashes by, its driver, cigarette dangling from his lips, tuning the radio with one hand, dialing a cellular phone with the other and evidently steering with…

  • Forsgate light still a year off

    A proposed traffic light at the intersection of Forsgate Drive and Perrineville Road is still in its preliminary stages By: Nick D’Amore    JAMESBURG – A proposed traffic light at the intersection of Forsgate Drive and Perrineville Road is still in its preliminary stages.    A traffic consultant brought in by Middlesex County Engineering Office is working…

  • Open space plan blocks Monroe developer

    The site of the proposed Hawthorne Acres development on Buckelew Avenue is among the township’s projected acquisitions for open space By: Al Wicklund    MONROE – The site of the proposed Hawthorne Acres development on Buckelew Avenue is among the township’s projected acquisitions for open space.    The agenda for Monday’s Township Council business meeting includes a…

  • Higher parking meter fees get council backing

    Borough Council is expected to introduce an ordinance that would also extend the hours for the meters and initiate Sunday fees. By: Jennifer Potash    Parking meters in the center of downtown Princeton Borough will likely cost more and be enforced for more hours, including Sundays, beginning in the fall.    The Princeton Borough Council on Tuesday…

  • Cardboard canoe race caps a summer camp

    It was a case of sink, swim or paddle. By: Jane Karlicek        It was a case of sink, swim or paddle as nine cardboard canoes took to the water of the Princeton Community Park Pool on Thursday.    And while some of the cardboard vessels sank, forcing their paddlers to swim, others miraculously made it…

  • Garden Theater to bloom again

    University-owned theater to closes for 12 to 14 weeks for a renovation to cost at least $600,000. By: Jeff Milgram    The Garden Theater closed Thursday in preparation for a $600,000-plus renovation program that will upgrade its seats, refurbish its bathrooms and install new screens, projectors and sound system.    The renovations are expected to take 12…

  • Monroe vet draws from war experience for novel

    By: Al Wicklund    MONROE – Happiest when he’s doing something, Bernard Binder turned a 1994 Caribbean vacation into the start of his first novel.    Mr. Binder, a Navy veteran of World War II and a retired businessman, had the pleasure of seeing his book, "Once There Was Aaron," available to the public when it was…

  • George’s wins rec hoop title

    Burston leads way in series sweep By: Bob Nuse    Somehow, every player on the George’s Roasters & Ribs basketball team had some connection to one of his teammates.    This group of friends of friends came together at the right time this summer, capturing the championship of the Princeton Recreation Men’s Summer Basketball League Wednesday night…