Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON: Seafood company makes gefilte fish for Passover
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer Anyone looking for homemade gefilte fish for their Passover seder on March 6 need look no further than the Nassau Street Seafood and Produce Company. Gefilte fish is a dish made of poached ground white fish mixed with egg and matzo meal. Nassau Street Seafood has been offering the dish…
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PRINCETON: Probes continue at rooming house
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer Local and Division of Community Affairs officials are keeping watch over a rooming house on Nassau Street that was cited with a long list of violations, including bedbugs and turning the third floor into an additional rooming space instead of an apartment. With the majority of the state violations pertaining…
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PRINCETON: Stuart spends months preparing for author visit
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer The auditorium in the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart echoed with chatter as the lower school students filled the seats. Excitement mounted as the young girls got ready to see the woman whose work they had been reading for months Naomi Shihab Nye, an award winning…
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Literacy tutors sought; economic summit soon
By Bradley Koltz I often get to highlight in this column those who have done something special to make our communities better places to live and work. So it’s very gratifying when I get a chance to invite my readers to come together to do something special themselves. If you’re reading this, you might take…
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PRINCETON AREA: Goggles, golf carts drive drunk driving lesson home
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer The golf cart inched along at a snail’s pace, the driver desperately trying to maneuver around blurry traffic cones that appeared to dance around. Eyes attempting to concentrate on the out-of-focus turns and failing. One cone down. ”Oh no, you just hit a pedestrian,” screamed the students who had…
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PRINCETON: Battlefield project suit filed
A new counterattack is in the works as opponents of an approved housing project fight back to protect what they call the most “critical portion” of the Princeton Battlefield. Ten plaintiffs have brought suit against the Institute for Advanced Study to block the development of faculty housing. Opponents say the 15 dwellings a mix…
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WEST WINDSOR: Township get $220,000 aid grant
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR The New Jersey Department of Transportation awarded West Windsor a $220,000 grant from its 2012 Municipal Aid Program. The grant will go toward the town’s resurfacing project, which includes New Village Road between the Edinburg and Old Trenton Roads. ”This grant is another example of the ongoing…
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SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Birthday celebration ends in death, charges
By Charles W. Kim, Packet Media Group SOUTH BRUNSWICK A birthday celebration led to the death of the man who just turned 25 and aggravated manslaughter charges for a Plainsboro friend driving him home early on Saturday morning, according to police. According to police, Rohit Maddineni, 25, of Plainsboro, was driving Pavan Gottumukkala, 25,…
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MONTGOMERY: 3 school board candidates debate
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY With a handful of people in attendance, three of the four Board of Education candidates discussed their assets, ideas on improving the district and views on the April school election and the superintendent search at a March 29 League of Women Voters candidates debate. Four candidates are vying…
