Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: School budget passes, election results

      Both Princeton Township and Borough residents have voted to pass the $75.6 million school budget on April 17. “We are very grateful to all who voted and appreciative of the support of the 2012-13 budget,” said Superintendent Judy Wilson. Borough residents voted to re-elect Board President Rebecca Cox with 387 votes and elect Martha…

  • MONTGOMERY: School budget passes, school board results

    Montgomery and Rocky Hill residents officially passed the Montgomery Township $80.8 million school budget. Voters also passed the second question, which would require Montgomery Township and Rocky ill residents to support the general fund levy which is $65.39 million. This translates to $63.87 million for Montgomery residents and $1.51 million for Rocky Hill.   As for…

  • PRINCETON: University assistant professor wins Pulitzer Prize for poetry

       Tracy K. Smith, an assistant professor of creative writing in Princeton University’s Lewis Center for Arts, today won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for “Life on Mars,” which the prize committee calls “a collection of bold, skillful poems, taking readers into the universe and moving them to an authentic mix of joy and pain.”…

  • WEST WINDSOR: School election results

    The West Windsor and Plainsboro citizens went to the polls on Tuesday and approved the $161 million budget for the 2012-13 school year. Between the two towns, 2,090 voted yes, while 939 voted to defeat the budget. As for the West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education, Michele Kaish beat out Peter Abitanto by 965 votes for…

  • MONTGOMERY: EMT gets the call for home-delivery

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Sometimes babies want a say in where they’re born — and on April 12, Alice Duxbury insisted on being brought into the world in the comfort of her own home.    When nine months pregnant Ellen Duxbury started feeling inconsistent contractions two to three minutes apart around 5:30 p.m.…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Brush fires hit area

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Firefighters had a busy weekend fighting several brush fires, and a couple of Princeton residents had a scary end to a weekend hike.    Brush fires erupted in Princeton and West Windsor on Saturday and Sunday. And East Windsor also had a two-alarm structure fire on Saturday.    Cindy Williams and Stephen…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    Princeton Township    Brenda O’Hara, 42, of Ewing, was arrested on a charge of having an active traffic warrant for $304 out of Ewing. She was released after posting the bail.    Steven Chiocchi, 24, of Asbury, was arrested on a charge of having an active traffic warrant for $120 out of Phillipsburg. He was released after…

  • PRINCETON: Robin Hood rides into Princyclopedia

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    A jousting knight by the name of “Sir Eric” lounged behind an array of armor. The collection happened to be bits and pieces of the opponents he defeated in his 20-year career.    ”I’ve never lost a tournament. I mean, I’ve been disqualified a bunch of times — I’m not a…

  • MERCER COUNTY: Economy rated well at summit

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Economic experts gave their partly sunny forecasts for the local and regional economies at the 7th annual Mercer County Economic Summit held last week at Mercer County Community College in West Windsor.    Despite a slump in ratables since the economic summits began in 2006, Mercer County Executive Brain Hughes sees…