Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    Princeton Township    A child’s bike worth an estimated $500 was reported stolen at Community Park South sometime between 4:30 p.m. on June 16 and 4:30 on June 17.    A resident of Leigh Avenue reported her car windshield has been smashed on Leigh Avenue sometime between 4 p.m. on June 15 and 2 p.m. on June…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Cooling sites being designated for the public

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    With excessive heat warnings in effect, many area facilities are offering their spaces as cooling centers for those looking for relief.    The lobby of the Princeton Township Police Department, located at 1 Valley Road, has been opened to the public through Friday afternoon. Water will be provided.    Additional Princeton cooling…

  • PLAINSBORO: Ravi released from prison

       PLAINSBORO — Dharun Ravi, 20, of Plainsboro was released from jail Tuesday after serving 20 days of his 30-day sentence for video spying on his Rutgers roommate during a sexual encounter with another man.    The roommate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide days later by jumping off the George Washington Bridge.    After his conviction for bias intimidation,…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Kidnapped boy found safe in South Carolina

       WEST WINDSOR — The child reported to be kidnapped from West Windsor by his grandfather was found safe Tuesday morning in South Carolina and the grandfather has been arrested.    At approximately 11:30 a.m., police received a tip that Morris Lundy, 50, of Old Meadow Road in West Windsor, and his grandson, David Lundy, 5, were…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    Princeton Township    Christine Papp, 48, of Lawrenceville, was arrested on an active warrant in the amount of $89 on State Road at Hillside Avenue on June 14 at 10:43 a.m. She also received summonses for driving while suspended and failure to make repairs to her vehicle.    Police received a report that a child’s bicycle was…

  • PRINCETON: PHS told: Pursue your passions

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    Parents hungrily snapped pictures, friends cheered and grandparents dabbed away tears as the Princeton High School Class of 2012 gathered together as students for the last time.    More than 350 seniors graduated on Monday afternoon at the high school. As the school band fired up “Pomp and Circumstance,” the seniors,…

  • PHS PERSPECTIVE: Students who refused breathalyzer explain

    By Byrne Fahey and Pia Chakravarty    ”Just state your name and address,” repeated each Princeton High School administrator on the evening of May 24. Roughly 400 students lined up to speak into passive alcohol sensors at the door of prom. Thanks in part to the Board of Education’s recent implementation of policy 5335, which gave…

  • WW-P North: ‘We will remember the teachers’

    By Jennifer Bradley, Staff Writer    ”Pomp and Circumstance” echoed throughout the Sun Bank Center in Trenton as the West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North orchestra played for the members of the Class of 2012 proudly filing in to receive their diplomas on Friday, June 15.    Friends, families and administrators filled the ascending rows of the stadium…

  • PRINCETON: New 9/11 memorial design is revealed

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Vertical limestone pillars will surround a steel beam from the World Trade Center and horizontal memorial stones will be embedded in the earth nearby in the latest concept for the future 9/11 memorial.    The permanent memorial to all that died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, is proposed…