Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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Enclave of West Windsor residents mull zoning change
Neighbors divided on benefits By Greg ForesterStaff Writer WEST WINDSOR — Residents who attended a town meeting about possible zoning changes in the Bear Brook Road area of the township Monday were told to go home, talk to their neighbors and try to come to a consensus about what the township should do about the…
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Nierenberg House faces demolition
WW to open bids this week By GregForesterStaffWriter WEST WINDSOR — The fate of the Nierenberg House will be sealed this week as bids for the demolition of the dilapidated 1800s farmhouse near the entrance of Community Park are themselves unsealed by township officials. ”I have been inside that building before, and it is really…
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PRSD ends summer of renovation
Ready for new school year By NickNorlenStaff Writer This summer, Princeton Regional School District’s focus was on completing its renovation of offices and classrooms. But now, the focus will be on what happens in those spaces. Students from kindergarten through 12th grade will return for a full day of classes Sept. 6, and Superintendent Judy…
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Montgomery schools prep for opening
Enrollment at 5,470 for 2007-2008 By Katie Wagner Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — Bobbi Kahn is just putting the finishing touches on her first-grade classroom in Montgomery Lower Middle School this week. She’s already decorated bulletin boards with photos from her family’s vacation to Europe, pushed student desks together to make cooperative learning tables, hung up…
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Cost hike delays skateboard park
Project won’t happen in 2007 By Nick NorlenStaff Writer A potential cost increase will delay the construction of the skateboard park planned for Hilltop Park on Bunn Drive in Princeton Township. At Thursday’s Princeton Joint Recreation Board meeting, Recreation Department Executive Director Jack Roberts estimated that the project could be $75,000 short due to design…
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Sticker shock for WW senior center
Project bids come in too high By Greg ForesterStaff Writer WEST WINDSOR — Township officials are expected to reject all bids received for renovation work on the township’s Senior Center today after all the responses were significantly more than what the township was looking to pay for the work. Three bids came in, and all…
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Wanted: Essays on WW II recollections
In conjunction with Ken Burns series The Princeton Packet is inviting readers to submit essays about their experiences during World War II as part the upcoming Ken Burns series “The War,” to air on public television. About 1,100 World War II veterans die each day, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Packet…
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Safety work slated at Montgomery’s Village School
As opening approaches, spotlight shifts to playground area By Katie WagnerStaff Writer MONTGOMERY — Parents’ fears that their children were still at risk of asbestos exposure, because of demolition work at the former North Princeton Developmental Center this summer, were eased after township officials shared results of asbestos testing and agreed to pay for cleaning…
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3M plant manager says Montgomery had toxic waste data
Version conflicts with account of township officials By Katie WagnerStaff Writer MONTGOMERY — The manager of 3M’s Belle Mead quarry defended his handling of information about potentially toxic metals stored on the company’s Sourland Mountain site, stating on Wednesday that he had regularly provided township officials with the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory…
