Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Debate over redevelopment rages on in West Windsor as year ends

    Debate over redevelopment rages on in West Windsor as year ends

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — For West Windsor Township, 2007 will forever be associated with redevelopment and the twists and turns the community has undergone as it strives to arrive at an acceptable plan for the 350 acres encircling the Princeton Junction train station.    The key question remains what to include in…

  • Skillman Village looms large for Montgomery in 2008

    Skillman Village looms large for Montgomery in 2008

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — It was a year of preparing for new development for Montgomery, with the township’s purchase of the former North Princeton Development Center — a 260-acre former state institution the township has had its eye on for more than a decade — kicking off 2007.    The demolition of 92…

  • Shopping center weathers a soft holiday sales season

    Shopping center weathers a soft holiday sales season

    Stephanie Kleier has her hands full at Chicklet Books in the Princeton Shopping Center. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Defunct arts charter school owes Princeton schools $100,000

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    Princeton Regional School District officials are seeking approximately $100,000 in tuition payments that they said are owed by the now-closed Mercer Arts Charter School, but a state Department of Education official said a full reimbursement is “doubtful.”    The charter school, which was in its inaugural year, was ordered closed by…

  • Princeton Public Library wins $500,000 grant, but there’s a catch

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    The National Endowment for the Humanities has offered the Princeton Public Library a $500,000 grant with just one catch: The library has to match those funds with $1.5 million.    Assistant Library Director Elba Barzelatto said the library was well aware of the conditions of the matching grant when it applied…

  • Shopping center weathers a soft holiday sales season

    Shopping center weathers a soft holiday sales season

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    Separated from the central downtown shopping destination — and with their façades still under renovation — the stores of Princeton Shopping Center weathered this holiday season with mixed success, according to merchants.    Among the most popular locations for holiday shopping activity was the recently reopened post office inside Chicklet Books,…

  • Borough police lieutenant now has an FBI education

    Borough police lieutenant now has an FBI education

    Princeton Borough Police Lt. Nicholas Sutter is back on the job after completing special training at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Plainsboro history gets a new overseer

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — Following the retirement of longtime Plainsboro Historical Society Executive Director Robert Yuell last month, a Recreation Department employee with years of experience in running museums and historical sites has been tapped as the new township history czar.    Patricia Millen was given the position because of her past experience…

  • More Plainsboro commerical zones face fees for affordable housing

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — The Township Committee passed an ordinance revision Thursday that will include additional commercial zones in the township’s development fee schedule.    Those fees assessed to developers support the township’s affordable housing program.    Several zones that had been left out of the fee schedule — including the Village Center Zone…