Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • ‘First grade is such a big deal’

    ‘First grade is such a big deal’

    Nathan He, who is getting ready to begin first grade next, visits with Orchard Hill School principal Tom Barclay. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Vote pending on designation for new hospital site

    Plainsboro planners recommend old FMC site as area in need of redevelopment By Greg ForesterStaff Writer    PLAINSBORO — The Township Committee on Sept. 10 will consider a resolution officially designating the future site of the University Medical Center at Princeton as an area in need of redevelopment.    The designation was unanimously recommended by Plainsboro’s planning…

  • Light donation sparks bicycle safety effort

    Police in effort to aid after-dark cycling commuters By Katie WagnerSpecial Writer    Cycling at night is about to become safer for some local bicyclists. Starting Monday, the Princeton Township Police Department will be handing all cyclists found without bicycle lights a letter encouraging them to pick up free front and rear bicycle lights at the…

  • Greenview condos? Foes emerging early

    Greenview condos? Foes emerging early

    Greeenview Avenue resident Julie Fox, second from left, talks with neighbors about a proposed condominum project. She lives in house at left. House at right would be one of three to be demolished. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ‘First grade is such a big deal’

    ‘First grade is such a big deal’

    Students reveal their hopes and plans By Kristin BoydStaff Writer     Inside Room 117 at Orchard Hill Elementary School, 6-year-olds clump together, exchanging “hellos” and discussing their summer vacations.     Soon enough, they’ll begin sharing the secret rules of first grade:     • Lunches can be swapped for something of equal or lesser value.     • ”Stuff”…

  • Greenview condos? Foes emerging early

    Greenview condos? Foes emerging early

    Charmed by Hillier, but not his plan By Nick NorlenStaff Writer    Despite his intention to simply gather neighborhood input about the plan, Architect J. Robert Hillier’s preliminary meetings with residents about his proposed condominium project on Greenview Avenue in Princeton Borough have left several of the nearby homeowners ready to oppose the plan even before…

  • Four armed assailants still at large

    For Montgomery, a rare gunpoint robbery By Katie WagnerSpecial Writer    MONTGOMERY — Police are still looking for four assailants in a gunpoint robbery of a Montgomery Township resident that occurred last week.    This is the first reported armed robbery of any kind the township has experienced in a few years, with the last one having…