Category: archives
-

School formula policy warrants open debate
PACKET EDITORIAL, July 17 For several years now, the state Department of Education has been kicking around a wide array of new ideas and concepts each calling for a new and different formula for distributing state aid to local school districts. With state school aid now totaling some $8 billion a year, these…
-

Loose ends unreconciled in billing gap between township and borough
Borough awaits report on payment status By: Nick Norlen Princeton Borough is still awaiting a report from the township on its payment status of more than $2 million in old capital ordinances, but Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi said the process is intended to reconcile funding discrepancies, and could even reveal that the borough is on…
-

Property Transfers June, 2007
The Princeton Packet Inc. publishes information on real estate transactions in its core market as a public service because it believes the information is newsworthy and appropriate. The information is all on the public record. In some cases the listing represents the property’s mailing address rather than the municipal location. While the intention is to…
-

Landowner in WW redevelopment area offers free trip to view projects
Seeking examples of outstanding development in Washington area in bid to counter Hillier planning effort By: Greg Forester WEST WINDSOR A resident with property in the train station redevelopment area is looking for public input about the project, inviting community leaders on a trip to the Washington area to examine similar developments. Steve Goldin…
-

Assuring your food is safe
Inspectors are on the case By: Nick Norlen You take it for granted. It’s the small, white placard in restaurants, grocery stores and delicatessens that says "Satisfactory" a sign that the establishment has been inspected and approved to serve food to the public. But behind that single word is a complicated process one…
-

Area trio has rough start to Final Nine
C-P, Princeton, WW look to bounce back in losers’ bracket By: Justin Feil HAMILTON In succession, Princeton, West Windsor and Cranbury-Plainsboro lost their first-round games in the District 12 Little League 10-year-old Baseball Tournament on Sunday at Nottingham’s Sayen Field. All three face a tough road through the losers’ bracket, but are optimistic that…
-

Princeton Union semi-spectacular
Only nation’s best stops soccer team By: Justin Feil Teams will be looking at the Princeton Union 90 soccer team with a little more respect when they travel to North Carolina for the Score at the Shore Tournament this weekend. Princeton Union earned a new measure of it by advancing to the semifinals of the…
-

OBITUARIES, July 17, 2007
Luigi Porcaro, George J. LemMon, Oswald G. Hoepfner, Jack L. Cover Luigi Porcaro Longtime Princeton resident Luigi Porcaro of Princeton died suddenly Monday at his home while tending his garden. He was 82. Born in San Giovanni, Cippaloni Benevento, Italy, and the oldest of seven siblings, he was a Princeton resident since 1958. Prior…
-

D&R Greenway seeks art for fall exhibit
D&R Greenway Land Trust, a leader in land preservation in New Jersey, invites artists to submit their work for its curated fall exhibition, "The Road Not Taken," which will be on display Oct. 15 through Jan. 11. Works will be exhibited in the Marie L. Matthews Gallery at the Johnson Education Center, located at 1…
