Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Grant sought for shared service Web site

    Would leverage Plainsboro cooperative By Greg Forester    PLAINSBORO — County officials are seeking state grant monies that would help Plainsboro use its own shared service organization to build a Web portal available for use by other municipal agencies looking for specialized equipment or vehicles.    The $200,000 state grant the county’s own Shared Services Department is…

  • POLICE BLOTTER

    As published October 30 Princeton Borough    Ivan Vassileff, 37, of Paris, France, was charged with driving while intoxicated 12:51 a.m. Friday subsequent to a motor vehicle stop on Nassau Street, police said. Mr. Vassileff was transported to police headquarters, processed and released on his own recognizance.    Wallace Tsoi, 23, of Cranbury, was charged with driving…

  • More charges in choir college death

    Prosecutor acts on evidence from Princeton apartment By Nick Norlen Staff Writer    Searches of the car where Westminster Choir College student Justin Warfield was injected with heroin as well as the apartment where he was brought after he passed out have resulted in additional drug charges against the four students involved in the case, a…

  • Talk show accents 2008 presidential race

    Taped at PU; to air Oct. 31 By Nick Norlen Staff Writer    It was probably meant as a compliment, but it didn’t come out that way.    ”I can’t tell you people how weird you are,” said Cliff Zukin to the 75 or so people who showed up at a Princeton University lecture hall on a…

  • Playing fields an issue in Montgomery’s committee race

    $30,000 a year to bus HS students to practice By Katie Wagner Playing fields an issue in Montgomery’s committee race Katie WagnerStaff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Opponents in this year’s Township Committee elections have different opinions on where and how land should be converted to athletic fields.    Frank Drift, a Republican candidate for one of the…

  • Princeton Boro PD to grow by 2

    Council approves increase to 24 officers By Nick Norlen Staff Writer    A resolution passed by Princeton Borough Council Tuesday will allow the borough police force to increase its official number of officers from 32 to 34.    The move will allow the department to reinstate its Safe Neighborhoods Unit, which will increase officers’ on-street presence in…

  • Taxes, budget dominate 16th LD races

    Senate, Assembly district includes Montgomery By Katie Wagner Staff Writer    Candidates in the 16th legislative district, which includes Montgomery and Rocky Hill, all list property taxes and school funding as among New Jersey’s biggest challenges.    In the district’s state senate election, Assemblyman Christopher “Kip” Bateman, a Republican is running against Wayne Fox, a Democrat of…

  • Lack of support cited in Montgomery arts funding crisis

    Fingerpointing by former board members and director By Katie Wagner Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Former Montgomery Center for the Arts board members blame lack of community support, lack of state funding and the failure of the organization’s former program director, Emily Logue, to raise money, as behind the center’s financial demise, while Ms. Logue points…

  • Absentee ballot deadline looms

    Oct. 30 for Mercer County residents Staff Report Absentee ballot deadline looms    Oct. 30 is the last day for Mercer County residents to apply for an absentee ballot through the mail to vote in the upcoming Nov. 6 election.    ”In New Jersey, any voter can now vote by absentee ballot for any reason,” stated Mercer…