Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • WEST WINDSOR: Team of 2 to seek seats as mayor, council member

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Campaign season is just around the corner, but it’s already all systems go for residents Richard “Rick” Visovsky, Republican, and Martin Whitfield, a Democrat, who plan on seeking local office as a team.    This year, three terms are expiring: longtime Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh and council members Kamal…

  • PRINCETON: Environment groups warn of pipeline problems

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    Environmental activists are warning of the negative impacts of pipeline projects, this as a Southwest pipeline company is proposing an East Coast expansion that will go through part of Princeton.    The forum, arranged by a regional chapter of the New Jersey Sierra Club, was part education about, part advocacy…

  • MERCER COUNTY: Tourism dollars up for third straight year

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    They came to Mercer County in 2012 to visit historic places, eat at restaurants, stay at hotels, all to the tune of more than $1 billion in tourism spending for the second consecutive year, according to a report on tourism.    The data, collected by the Pennsylvania firm Tourism Economics,…

  • PLAINSBORO: Three held in baseball bat attacks

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — An aggravated assault attack on Tuesday night put one victim in the hospital and left two cars with thousands of dollars worth of damage.    Plainsboro men Oscar Arandi, 31, and Rony E. Reyes, 31, and Gerber Esau-Reyes, 22, of East Windsor, allegedly beat up three victims using baseball…

  • PHS PERSPECTIVE: Improv opens the mind and stretches imagination

    bY Miranda Alperstein    Sometimes it’s truly astounding to think how much of our lives is based on chance. A snap decision, a sunny day, a misdialed phone call.    For instance, as I walked down the hallways the September of my sophomore year, I happened to notice a poster on the wall. “Improv troupe auditions —…

  • PRINCETON: Rabbi killed, 2 injured in crash

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    The former director of Princeton University’s Center for Jewish Life was killed and two others were seriously injured when an apparent speeding car struck two parked cars on Riverside Drive Thursday morning, authorities said.    Rabbi James S. Diamond, 74, remembered as a pillar of the community, had just left…

  • WEST WINDSOR: School superintendent resigning

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — After nine years with the school district, Superintendent Victoria Kniewel is resigning to take another superintendent position out of state.    Board President Hemant Marathe said he received the notification a little more than a week ago. He had hoped all the details would have been resolved by…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Rash of phone, computer thefts at high school

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — A string of burglaries this week has so far cost six students more than $2,000 in reported stolen electronic devices at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North.    An array of cell phones and Apple products such as iPod Touches have been reported stolen almost every day this week.…

  • PLAINSBORO: Suspect in hospital sex offenses pleads not guilty

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    A former hospital employee pleaded not guilty Wednesday to committing sex offenses six months apart on two emergency room patients at University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro last year.    Edher Osorio, indicted in February, stood beside his public defender during his arraignment in Superior Court in New Brunswick…