Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: Historical Society celebrates 75th anniversary

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    The Historical Society of Princeton turned 75 on Thursday, an anniversary marking 75 years of preserving and telling the story of a community and its people.    Each year, some 15,000 visitors pass through the doors of the Bainbridge House, the colonial-era home that today serves as the organization’s headquarters…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    Princeton    Kaori Wilson, 35, of Princeton, was charged with obstructing the administration of law and false public alarms at a residence on Edwards Place. Police said Ms. Wilson was arguing with her husband when they arrived, was uncooperative and started dialing 9-1-1. Montgomery    Joseph B. Orosz, 24, of Somerville, was charged with possession of burglary…

  • PRINCETON: Annual deer hunt underway

       The annual town deer culling in Princeton was scheduled to start Monday between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m.    A notice posted on the town website says that the controlled hunts “may take” place on properties listed on the following streets:    Arreton Road    Cherry Hill Road    Cherry Valley Road    Crestview Drive    Drakes Corner Road    Gallup Road…

  • PRINCETON: Washington and Lincoln in arts and crafts

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    Maria Evans stood by a table covered with glue containers, buttons and other objects that included photo cutouts of past presidents that little people would turn into little pieces of art.    ”We’re making presidential pennants,” the artistic director of the Arts Council of Princeton told a child who had…

  • PRINCETON: Man indicted on animal cruelty charge

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    A Princeton man who passed himself off as a dog trainer was indicted Wednesday for third-degree animal cruelty in the death of a female German shepherd mix in August.    Michael G. Rosenberg, a Megan’s law sex offender who lived on Birch Avenue, faces up to five years in state…

  • PRINCETON: No decision made on chamber-proposed kiosks

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    The Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce made a formal pitch to the Princeton Council Monday to upgrade the two kiosk message boards on Nassau Street.    The chamber is interested in having cleaner, more organized boards that limit the unregulated use of the boards as they are today where people…

  • Plainsboro man gets 3 years in deal

       NEW BRUNSWICK — A Plainsboro man received a three-year state prison sentence on Monday for a drunken driving crash that killed a back-seat passenger in his vehicle last March.    The penalty was less than the six-year prison term that was part of a plea bargain Rohit Maddineni took in November when he pleaded guilty to…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    Princeton    (No blotter items were supplied by Princeton police.) West Windsor    Tindall & Ranson Inc. on Alexander Road reported that catalytic converters from four vans and four hubs from a truck were stolen sometime between 10:18 p.m. and 10:48 p.m. on Feb. 7. The total value stolen was approximately $4,200.    CA Technologies reported a laptop…

  • MONTGOMERY: Abrahams resigns from school board

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Christine N. Abrahams, the Board of Education vice president, unexpectedly resigned on Feb. 12, just a little more than halfway into her first term.    Ms. Abrahams said she could no longer make the time commitment due to the rigid early morning hours of her designated subcommittees.    As a…