Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON: Officials: Prepare now for hurricanes
By Jennifer Bradley, Staff Writer Hurricane season for 2012 got underway on Friday and after the damages Hurricane Irene brought last year, all Princeton and Mercer County residents are being encouraged to begin preparing for this year’s hurricane season. Hurricane season last through Nov. 30. ”After Irene and especially with the consolidation, there has been…
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WEST WINDSOR: 44 dragon boat teams Paddle for Pink
By Jennifer Bradley, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR A stream of people dressed in pink entered Mercer County Park Lake on Sunday, June 3, as 44 dragon boat teams and their supporters participated in the Paddle for Pink festival and dragon boat races to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer. The event was hosted…
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PRINCETON AREA: Schools do well in rankings
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer The rankings for the top high schools in America for 2012 are in and it looks like the Princeton High School, Montgomery High School and both West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North and South all made the grade. Both “Newsweek” and “U.S. News and World Report” recently released their top picks…
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PRINCETON: Students win money for traffic safety captions
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer Six local students were awarded a total of $1,100 in privately donated cash prizes for winning a cartoon contest that will spearhead the Princeton Borough Traffic and Transportation Committee’s long-term “Safe Princeton” traffic safety education campaign. Four Princeton High School students and one student each from Montgomery High School and…
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PHS PERSPECTIVE:‘Pendulating’ high school
By Lucy Fleming Many years ago, before my first day of kindergarten, I sat on this swing. And now, as a high school senior two weeks from graduation, I am sitting here on this swing, swinging. Sometimes I watch the cars go by, but right now, there are none. A quiet evening. The lawn stretches…
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PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter
By staff Princeton Borough Christopher Smyth, 20, of Belle Mead, was charged with three counts of criminal attempted burglary at Fowler’s Gulf Station on Nassau Street on May 31 at 2:35 a.m. He was released on summonses. Helen Chavarriaga, 22 of Princeton, was charged with simple assault after she allegedly pushed, kicked and scratched a…
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PRINCETON: Couple robbed at gunpoint
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer A man and woman in their 30s were robbed and assaulted at gunpoint by three suspects in the heart of Princeton Borough early Saturday morning. Between 3 and 3:30 a.m. on June 2, the suspects approached the victims in the area of Nassau Street and Witherspoon Street brandishing handguns and…
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PRICETON: Steve Carell addresses class of 2012
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer Despite pouring rain Monday morning, throngs of Princeton University graduates gathered on Cannon Green for their Class Day ceremonies, where a local teen was made an honorary class member and actor Steve Carell addressed the students. Derek DiGregorio, 14, of Princeton, received the loud cheers as he was inducted as…
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PRINCETON: Shopping Center sale expected soon
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer A deal for the sale and purchase of the Princeton Shopping Center could be completed as soon as today, transferring ownership of the site from George Comfort & Sons to Edens of South Carolina. ”There is a contract signed to sell it,” confirmed Peter Duncan, president of George Comfort &…
