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  • Good to see cooler heads prevail in West Windsor

    PACKET EDITORIAL, July 20    The prospect of West Windsor Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh and the Township Council becoming embroiled in a lawsuit over Township Attorney Michael Herbert has been averted by a compromise. That is good news for several reasons.    First, the sight of taxpayer dollars being converted into billable hours by litigators is never pretty,…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Ismael Perez, 21, of Farm Road, was charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of theft and one count of fraudulent use of a credit card after police found he had attempted to use a stolen credit card at an ATM.    Police said two Farm Road residents reported on May 27 that their…

  • E. Windsor softball 10’s advance to Final Four

    By: Sean Moylan    Don Oberg’s "Dazzling Dozen" from East Windsor went out and pounded the first three District 12 10-year-old Little League All-Star softball teams it faced to advance out of pool play and into the Final Four.    Using a combination of great hitting and sensational plate discipline for walks, East Windsor crushed West Windsor,…

  • Yeshiva ‘dorms’ closed by state

    By: Vic Monaco    Three buildings housing students from the controversial Me’on Hatorah yeshiva in Roosevelt were recently ruled to be illegal dormitories and cited as "imminent hazards" by the state, which forced their closure.    The buildings at 53 N. Rochdale Ave. and 18 and 28 Homestead Lane were lacking required sprinkler systems and certificates of…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    By:    Roseann Barb, 46, of North Ninth Avenue, was charged with being a disorderly person at 8:44 p.m. July 6 at the corner of South Main Street and West Camplain Road after police received reports of her walking in the road and yelling obscenities at cars and pedestrians.    She was turned over to Somerset County…

  • Church addition nearly complete

    Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg improvements could be completed in early August By: Bill Greenwood    JAMESBURG — Improvements to the Presbyterian Church of Jamesburg on Gatzmer Avenue are in "the home stretch" and could be completed in early August, said Frank Moschella Sr., a member of the church’s construction committee.    Mr. Moschella said Tuesday that only…

  • Letters to the Editor, July 20

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, July 20 In defense of Princeton Township Police To the editor: This letter is a response to the rude and outlandish comments Ms. Leslie A. Winter of Lawrence made in the July 13 Princeton Packet regarding the Princeton Township Police Department’s conduct during the fireworks display at the beginning of the…

  • Complaint against PU public safety raises interface issues

    Was an incident at Lake Carnegie parking lot an assault? By: Nick Norlen    A Princeton Borough resident’s complaint regarding an alleged "assault" by Princeton University’s Public Safety Department officers could lead to questions about how and what the university’s policing unit communicates with police departments in the municipalities it works within.    At Tuesday’s Princeton Borough…

  • Bacardi

    Bacardi, a very sweet 6-month-old smaller-sized, female Shepherd mix, is in need of a loving home and available for adoption from SAVE, Princeton’s animal shelter, 900 Herrontown Road, Princeton. For information about adopting "Bacardi" or another cat or dog, call (609) 921-6122. SAVE: http://www.petfinder.org/shelters/NJ143.html