Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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Immigration raid tactics alarm Princeton advocates
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer Accounts of a December raid on a Princeton Borough residence by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents portray a harrowing scene that immigrant advocates say occurs frequently statewide: ICE agents looking for a fugitive approach a residence in the early morning hours, enter without a search warrant and detain any…
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Consultants to review Hillier memo on West Windsor redevelopment
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — Township Council on Tuesday agreed to ask its consultants to review an August redevelopment memo prepared by RMJM Hillier on the train station area and report back at its March 7 meeting. The report, March 7, is expected to help the council decide how to proceed on…
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Nassau Inn gives Planning Board a look at its plans for expansion
Rendering shows how a renvoated Nassau Inn would look from Palmer Square West. The retail space housing Lindt Chocolate would be overhauled to make way for two new floors above, a new exterior entry, waiting area and outdoor dining space for the Yankee Doodle Tap Room. Courtesy Spiezle Group
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Nassau Inn gives Planning Board a look at its plans for expansion
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer The Nassau Inn has “room for improvement,” its attorney said Thursday — “no pun intended.” — In what attorney Thomas Letizia — and the inn’s representatives — have called a “rejuvenation,” the hotel on Palmer Square plans to renovate and expand on its site with a phased, three-year project that…
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Builder: sign meant to attract interest in unapproved project
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer The Princeton builder who posted the Quarry Street sign announcing a new townhouse project on the street said it was intended to solicit buyers, not herald a done deal. ”We’re just generating interest right now,” said Wayne Miller, who confirmed comments from Princeton planning officials that no formal plans have…
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POLICE BLOTTER, Jan. 22
Princeton Township Ciaran O’Callaghan, 22, of Princeton, was charged with offering an alcoholic beverage to an underage person at 5:24 p.m. Saturday. Mr. O’Callaghan was arrested at Princeton Shopping Center by plainclothes officers after he sold an alcoholic beverage to an undercover police officer posing as a high school student, police said. He was transported…
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University marks King Day with frank talk on immigration
Jose Huizar, Los Angeles City council member and Princeton University trustee, gives the celebration’s keynote address at Richardson Auditorium. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
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Split vote prevents Princeton Democrats from making endorsement
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer The Princeton Community Democratic Organization won’t endorse a presidential candidate after all. Although the organization held a vote for the endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate at its annual potluck and reorganization meeting Sunday, none of the candidates achieved the supermajority — 60 percent of the vote — required by…
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University marks King Day with frank talk on immigration
By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer An audience at Princeton University’s King Day celebration on Monday that had been swaying to steel drum music settled into their seats when the event’s keynote speaker Jose Huizar, the first Latino immigrant to serve on the Los Angeles City Council, began speaking about the relationship between the Rev. Dr.…
