Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Bikers bring hog heaven to nursing center

    Bikers bring hog heaven to nursing center

    Motorcyclists serve barbecue at Princeton Care Center By Kristin BoydStaff Writer    Some Princeton Care Center residents sat outside in their silver wheelchairs, others pulled back their curtains and peered from the windows while they waited anxiously to hear one sound: Rumble. Rumble. Rumble.    ”Do you hear ‘em? I can hear ‘em,” Recreation Director Berni Perrong…

  • Fixing a stopped clock’s place in history

    Fixing a stopped clock’s place in history

    Roland Bisio, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Michigan, left, and Princeton University professor Michael Littman, right, with a clock mechanism that was housed in a Trenton shirt factory. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Office space moves slowly, study reports

    Office space moves slowly, study reports

    Signs along Alexander Road in West Windsor herald the availability of office space. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Engineering a more ‘auto’ automobile

    Engineering a more ‘auto’ automobile

    Princeton University vehilce advances in U.S. research competition By Katie WagnerStaff Writer    A group of Princeton University students have taken another stride in their quest for developing technology for motor vehicles they think could save lives.    On August 9, the students were notified that their engineering team would be advancing to the semifinals in the…

  • Engineering a more ‘auto’ automobile

    Engineering a more ‘auto’ automobile

    Princeton University engineering student Gordon Franken shows off the array of electronics under the hood of an SUV that was qualified for DARPA’s Urban Challenge. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • New township fee aims to take a bite out of dangerous dogs

    License would cost $700 under plan By Nick NorlenStaff Writer    An ordinance introduced by both Princeton Borough and Princeton Township this week would require residents to pay a $700 licensing fee for dogs deemed “potentially dangerous.”    That designation could only be applied by a municipal judge to dogs involved in violent incidents — biting people…

  • Township-borough rift on financing goes public

    Township-borough rift on financing goes public

    Councilman claims borough is owed ‘millions’ on pump station; township administrator issues rebuttal By Nick NorlenSpecial Writer    The retirement of debt service for a sewage pumping station has become a persistent point of contention between the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township, according officials of both municipalities.    The pumping station on Mount Lucas Road was…

  • Mastering their p’s, q’s and Rx’s

    Mastering their p’s, q’s and Rx’s

    Montgomery High School teachers Karen Stalowski and Chris Resch collaborate in a lab exercise in the high school media center on Tuesday morning. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • After years of delay, hotel project may go ahead in West Windsor

    After years of delay, hotel project may go ahead in West Windsor

    Six-story, 160 room project targeted for site off Route 1 and Meadow Road By Greg ForesterSpecial Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The township moved closer to bringing a significant commercial ratable onto the tax rolls Wednesday night, giving a thumbs up to a developer’s plans for the township-required safety features of an access road of a…