Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Lawsuit with racketeering component alleges fraud against Latino tenant

    Lawsuit with racketeering component alleges fraud against Latino tenant

    Alicia Barrita appears at a news conference with her attorney, Roger Martindell, at his Princeton office on Monday. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Caroline Kennedy draws an adoring crowd to West Windsor book-signing

    Caroline Kennedy draws an adoring crowd to West Windsor book-signing

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Strong, dedicated to community service and exhibiting “Catholic values” are characteristics of Caroline Kennedy cited by people waiting to have her sign copies of her new book Monday night at the Barnes & Noble bookstore.    In a line that ran along half of MarketFair shopping center’s interior…

  • University near deal on South Brunswick research campus

    By Sean Ruppert, The Packet Group    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Princeton University has begun required road and utility work for a proposed science research park on Route 1.    Princeton-Forrestal, the real estate development division of the university, is nearing a deal to sell 90-acres to a private developer for the creation of a scientific research campus,…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    Princeton Borough    Adam Janson, 26 of Edgewater Park was charged with serving alcohol to a person under the age of 21 and possession of fireworks and Jacqueline Erickson, 18, also of Edgewater Park, was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of alcohol by a minor after police said they stopped a car driven by…

  • Lawsuit with racketeering component alleges fraud against Latino tenant

    Lawsuit with racketeering component alleges fraud against Latino tenant

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    The attorney for a Hightstown resident said a Princeton landlord “stole her dream” by illegally renting her a property and then refusing to refund the approximately $20,000 she spent on renovations.    Alicia Barrita of Hightstown was using the Franklin Township property as a residence and was planning a food distribution…

  • Princeton Township presents annual service awards to employees

       Princeton Township honored its longtime employees and volunteers with its annual Service Awards ceremony at township hall Monday.    Volunteers honored for five years of service included Library Board of Trustees President Katherine McGavern, Historic Preservation Commission member Avril Moore, Sidewalks and Bikeway Advisory Committee member Henry Acselrod, Board of Improvement Assessors member Margaret Hill, Shade…

  • West Windsor extended stay hotel room focus of major drug bust

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — A month-long drug investigation resulted in the seizure Thursday of $70,000 in crack and powder cocaine and the arrest of a convicted felon who was dealing drugs out of a township hotel, authorities said.    Law enforcement officials led by the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Unit…

  • AT WORK

    AT WORK

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer Linda C. Grimsley of Plainsboro Age: 43 Owner/Partner of Orpha’s Coffee Shop Montgomery Township    How did you get this job?     I was a coffee lover all my life. Everyone has a hobby and coffee is one that my husband and I share. He and I would do coffee tasting,…

  • Scottish visitors, video link enrich foreign exchange at school

    Scottish visitors, video link enrich foreign exchange at school

    Three visiting students from Scotland chat with Montgomery Upper Middle School teacher Margaret Weinberger. From left are Morag Skinner, 16; Eilidh Southren, 16; and Dean Johnston, 17. Staff photo by Katie Wagner