Category: archives

  • Talkin’ trash

    Collection proposal draws mixed reviews from councilmen, public By: Vic Monaco    HIGHTSTOWN — After a two-hour presentation on automated trash collection that included a much more favorable financial analysis that just a week earlier, no one disputed the monetary advantages of the borough getting back in the business.    But some did question the long-term implications…

  • ‘La Belle Epoque’

    Eden supporters ‘dream’ of Paris By: Christian Kirkpatrick    A cheerful "bon soir" greeted guests as they entered the Hyatt Regency Princeton Saturday night. Dapper gentlemen in top hats and ladies in feather boas strolled through the hotel’s atrium, near a miniature Arc de Triomphe and Eiffel Tower. Cancan dancers chatted with bohemian artists while an…

  • Exhibit a tribute to World War II

    Aim is to commemorate veterans By: Lacey Korevec    World War II veteran Charles Dunlop, of Monroe, pointed to a case, mounted in the Cranbury Museum, that displayed an imperial Japanese Army flag signed by 31 major Japanese war criminals held at Sugamo Prison, in Tokyo, in 1947. Many of the officials who signed the piece,…

  • ‘Roadshow’ Stories

    David Rago dishes trash-to-treasure tales for an ‘Antiques Roadshow’ event in Princeton. By: Kristin Boyd (David Rago appraises a Yellin lamp on Antiques Roadshow.)    Antiques Roadshow and American Idol have one common element: Both television shows attract people often disillusioned with rags-to-riches fantasies.    For every Kelly Clarkson, though, there are 100 William Hungs. The ratio…

  • Tiger men hope to see improvement again

    PU returns from exam break with Seton Hall By: Jusin Feil    The Princeton University men’s basketball team doesn’t exclusively look at wins and losses as a judge of its success.    The Tigers look for steady and continued improvement, and for 13 games they were pretty happy with what they saw. An 0-2 Ivy League weekend…

  • Casey’s girls win MAPL title

    By: Sean Moylan    After taking on one juggernaut after another, the Peddie girls’ varsity basketball team went out this past week and showed what it could do against "normal" high school competition.    If it is possible to put a team away in the first quarter, Peddie did it in last Friday’s 70-46 home win over…

  • Borough is on board with anti-big rig resolution

    Effort to take Route 206 and 27 off list of permitted roads follows action by Princeton Township By: Courtney Gross    Following the township’s lead, the Princeton Borough Council approved a joint resolution Tuesday evening urging the state Department of Transportation to exclude so-called treacherous truck traffic from the borough’s "main streets."    Both Route 206 and…

  • Board begins process for local historic district

    By: Cara Latham    HIGHTSTOWN — The borough’s Historic Preservation Commission took steps this week toward drafting an ordinance that would designate Stockton Street as a local historic district and give it and the borough more control over changes there.    Its members also decided that while they would like to remain an advisory panel to the…

  • A done deal: Montgomery closes on NPDC

    $5.95 million purchase is sealed; much work lies ahead By: Jake Uitti    MONTGOMERY — It’s official. The township now owns the 256-acre former North Princeton Developmental Center and the accompanying sewage treatment plant, with township officials having closed on the $5.95 million property on Tuesday with state officials, including Deputy Treasurer Robert Smartt of the…