Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • LAWRENCE: Proposed budget would result in 5-cent tax hike

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Township property owners are in line for a five-cent increase in the municipal property tax rate for 2013, under a proposed $42.9 million municipal budget unveiled before Township Council Tuesday night.    The budget, which would hike the municipal property tax rate from 89 cents per $100 of assessed value to…

  • MONTGOMERY: Township engineer seeks sidewalks policy

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — For as long as Township Engineer Gail Smith can remember, dealing with residential sidewalk repairs and maintenance has been a chronic problem in her department.    With no official code to specify township and resident responsibilities, engineering officials continue to struggle with how to uniformly respond to the various…

  • PHS PERSPECTIVE: Trying to comprehend the incomprehensible

    By Miranda Alperstein    Twenty children and six adults.    I repeated these numbers in my head for two weeks after the tragedy that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. I hoped that at some moment, I would suddenly understand the full weight of that loss. I would feel empathy for the family…

  • PRINCETON: Second dog owner alleges animal cruelty by trainer

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    A second alleged victim has come forward claiming that a Princeton man representing himself as a dog trainer committed animal cruelty, Princeton animal control Mark Johnson said Monday.    Mr. Johnson said he took a statement on Friday from the dog owner, a Montgomery resident, who met the suspect, Michael…

  • PRINCETON: New boarding school coming to Princeton

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    A boarding school, funded by the head of a major Chinese company, is aiming to open in 2014 at the site of the old American Boychoir School on Lambert Drive.    The Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science will seek to attract high-schoolers from around the world for an…

  • PRINCETON: 40 Princeton students treated for norovirus

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    A stomach bug resurfaced at Princeton University in the past few weeks, the school said.    Forty students with symptoms of gastroenteritis — described as an inflammation of the stomach and intestines — were seen at the university health center since Jan. 8, university spokesman Martin Mbugua said Monday. He…

  • PRINCETON: Task force moving fast on hospital site

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    A task force wants to move fast to send the Princeton Council a proposed ordinance to rezone the former University Medical Center of Princeton.    The group, meeting for the first time Thursday, tinkered with the current zoning to prohibit a swimming pool, either outdoor or indoor. The Task Force,…

  • PRINCETON: Compost material recycling being expanded

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    An eco-friendly way to get rid of food and other household waste will made available to 1,000 households in Princeton on a first-come, first-served basis.    Organic trash collection, due to begin Feb.1, enables residents to throw away food, animal bones, eggshells, vegetables and other items in green containers that…

  • MONTGOMERY: Smoking ban in parks being debated

    By Charley Falkenburg, Special to the Packet    MONTGOMERY — Smokers may soon be forced to leave their cigarettes behind if they want use any of the town’s public parks.    At the request of local, county and state health officials, the Township Committee is considering creating an ordinance that would ban smoking in all township-owned recreation…