Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter
Princeton Township A resident of Wendover Drive reported that a deer fence that borders his property was damaged on July 23 at 12:47 p.m. Police said the fence appeared to have been cut. Carmela Freda, 70, of Kendall Park, and Constance Danser, 74, of Princeton, were in an accident on Route 27 near Locust Lane…
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CENTRAL JERSEY: Customers asked to conserve water for 24 hours
Beginning at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 24, New Jersey American Water will begin emergency repairs on a 60-inch water transmission main in Manville that distributes water to 19 municipalities in four counties. The company anticipates that repairs will last for 24 hours and asks that customers conserve and curtail outdoor water use until 7…
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PRINCETON: Battlefield group appeals Planning Board finding
By Jennifer Bradley, Staff Writer The Princeton Battlefield Society has filed an appeal of the Princeton Regional Planning Board’s decision to allow the Institute for Advanced Study to build faculty housing on a part of the battlefield known as Maxwell’s Field on Friday, and is also seeking funds to support the society’s fight. According to…
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PRINCETON: Young filmmakers show their work at annual festival
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer As the lights went down inside the Princeton Library Thursday night, the first of 12 short films or videos appeared on a large screen. For more than two hours, film lovers got to watch works by a young generation of American and foreign filmmakers at the ninth annual Princeton…
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PHS PERSPECTIVE: Students making their marks this summer
By Jinwoo Chong and Tiffany Wang Summer brings many things sweltering heat, horrid humidity, painful sunburns, unseemly sweat stains and, of course, a reason to think up an amazing but nigh impossible to accomplish list of summer plans. Many students know the feeling of being completely free of obligations no school,…
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PRINCETON: Colorado shootings draw precautions in area
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Tuc Sargentini stood outside the Princeton Garden Theatre on Friday waiting to see the mid-afternoon screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” unwilling to be scared into staying away. ”Terrible things happen every day,” he said as the nation learned that a masked gunman had killed 12 patrons and wounded…
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PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter
Princeton Township Lake Hiawatha residents Conrad Maszack, 22, and Malcolm Ward, 21, were both charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly getting into a fistfight at a party on Gulick Road on July 21 at 2:35 a.m. Mr. Maszack was also charged with simple assault and both of them were taken to a local hospital for…
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PRINCETON: Lindi unlucky for a second time
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer A stuffed Icelandic ram that has been the mascot of a Nassau Street woolen shop for more than 30 years disappeared last week. Lindi last was seen around 3 p.m. July 16 in its usual place in front of Landau of Princeton, a three-generation, family run business owned by…
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PRINCETON: Car fire causes evacuations
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer When Jaime Geter and her friend left Chuck’s Spring Street Café in downtown Princeton, they found their car in flames resulting in business and residential evacuations on Saturday afternoon, according to police. Police said the 1999 green Dodge Stratus belonged to Joann Geter, Ms. Geter’s mother. Ms. Geter and…
