Category: archives

  • Study says new hospital site meets redevelopment criteria

    Plainsboro would gain more control over University Medical Center at Princeton project By: Greg Forester    PLAINSBORO — The Planning Board could officially recommend the township designate the future site of the University Medical Center at Princeton as an area in need of redevelopment as early as Monday after a township-commissioned report about the site determined…

  • Calu nets Ram girls’ tennis coaching job

    By: John Chester When he saw the opportunity was available, Matt Calu acted quickly.    After seeing an advertisement that Hightstown High School was seeking a head coach for the girls’ varsity tennis team, Calu picked up the telephone.    Calu proved to be the successful candidate and has succeeded Linda Petraglia as head coach.    The Hightstown…

  • Minute Maid rezoning to take a while

    Planners’ process could take four or five months, chairman says. By: Matt Chiappardi    HIGHTSTOWN — The Planning Board has begun discussing how to rezone the Minute Maid tract, one of only two significant developable pieces of land in the borough, and the process is expected to take quite some time.    Chairman Steve Misiura estimated that…

  • After years of delay, hotel project may go ahead

    Six-story, 160-room building proposed for site off Route 1 and Meadow Road By: Greg Forester    WEST WINDSOR — The township moved closer to bringing a significant commercial ratable onto the tax rolls Wednesday night, giving a thumbs up to a developer’s plans for the township-required safety features of an access road of a planned 160-room…

  • Mastering their p’s, q’s and Rx’s

    Teachers are schooled in pharmaceuticals By: Katie Wagner    MONTGOMERY — In a media center-converted classroom in Montgomery High School, one of the school district’s biology teachers posed a scientific question to 58 high school educators of a variety of disciplines from five states.    Paul Spinelli wanted to know what scientific information would be helpful for…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Joseph Critelli, 18, of Dover Court, was issued summonses for possession of CDS under 0.5 grams, failure to signal a turn and possession of CDS in a motor vehicle after he was pulled over for making a right turn onto Marshall Road with his left turn signal on at 10:03 p.m. Aug. 7.    Mr.…

  • Bunn Drive parcel for senior housing gets a fresh proposal

    Hillier makes pitch to lower qualifying age from 62 to 55 By: Nick Norlen    Architect and developer J. Robert Hillier surprised some members of the Princeton Township Committee on Monday by appearing with a pitch for an age-restricted housing project on the Bunn Drive site abandoned by developer K. Hovnanian in October 2006.    Representing his…

  • Balloons offer a hot photo op

    Festival held as part of camera club’s workshop. By: Megan DeMarco    Spectators and photographers flocked to the Wright South property behind the Cranbury School on Saturday night to see something never before seen in Cranbury.    A few minutes before 7 p.m., they got to see what they were waiting for as a big blue hot…

  • Borough to appeal ruling that would OK warehouses

    Almost all of project’s land lies in township. By: Matt Chiappardi    HIGHTSTOWN — The Planning Board is appealing a court ruling that recently reversed its rejection of a site plan for the construction of warehouses and offices near Airport Road and Route 33.    The 26-acre tract of land in question lies almost entirely in East…