Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    Princeton Township    Zachary Humbert, 26, of Belle Mead, was charged with driving while intoxicated on Route 206 near Ewing Street on Sept. 21 at 12:40 a.m. He also received summonses for reckless driving, speeding and failure to change address.    Kevin Kuchinski, 43, of Pennington, and Atul Sharma, 43, of West Windsor, were in a two-car,…

  • PRINCETON: Liverman pleads guilty to drunk driving

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    Township Committeeman Lance Liverman, saying Wednesday that his drunk driving case is a “private matter,” did not want the media present when he pleaded guilty, so he took steps to have an unannounced court date on Sept. 20.    Mr. Liverman pleaded guilty to drunk driving and refusing to take…

  • PRINCETON: Encounters with prostitute alleged at University Store

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    A now former night manager at the Princeton University Store on University Place allegedly was having “sexual acts” with a $250 prostitute inside the store at least three different times, Borough Police said Wednesday.    Authorities have alleged that Eric Everett, a store employee for nearly three years, and Brittany…

  • BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS: Teamwork by community and business and fall fun

    By Bradley Koltz    I recently came across a wonderful reminder of how much of a positive impact local business interaction with the community can make.    Girl Scouts from Troop 71830 recently worked with neighborhood volunteers to clear a trail by Textile Research Institute to allow the Riverside community in Princeton better access to Carnegie Lake.…

  • PRINCETON: Benefit concert held for Kenwood’s wife, daughter

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    The pain of Michael Kenwood’s death has not gone away, not for his family who cannot believe he’s no longer here, or for the members of the Princeton First Aid & Rescue Squad who remember him as a fallen hero.    His smiling face was on the cover of the…

  • PRINCETON: University student charged with taking ‘sexually explicit’ photos

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    A student from Australia at Princeton University allegedly took “sexually explicit” photographs of another male student who had fallen asleep in a dormitory after drinking alcohol, borough police said Monday.    Richard Charles Tuckwell, 20, was charged with third-degree invasion of privacy in that he allegedly used a camera phone…

  • PRINCETON: Board OKs 300 university housing units

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    Princeton University plans to build more than 300 units of faculty and staff housing on 25 acres in the borough that includes the former Merwick Care Center.    The anticipated $80 million project was approved Thursday by the Princeton Regional Planning Board after a more than four-hour hearing that ended…

  • PRINCETON: Motorcyclist, 21, charged with fleeing from police

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    Aaron Chepiga, 21, of Princeton, was charged with eluding and hindering apprehension after allegedly fleeing from a police officer who attempted to pull the motorcyclist over on Nassau Street on Sept. 7 at 11:10 a.m.    Mr. Chepiga was allegedly riding an unregistered and uninsured motorcycle when he was seen by…

  • PRINCETON: Mayoral candidates discuss local transportation

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer    Democratic mayoral candidate Liz Lempert said on Saturday that municipal government needs to invest regularly on transportation alternatives to cars.    ”I think we need to have a target percentage of what we’re spending on road projects to be spent on bike and pedestrian facilities,” she said after participating in…