Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: FreeB shuttle bus has been gaining ridership

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    The Daytime FreeB, a free shuttle bus service around the Princetons, is becoming more popular, with increasing ridership.    The mini-bus makes a loop through the borough and township on Mondays, Wednesday and Saturdays and is free to hop on and off.    An average of 30 people use the Daytime FreeB…

  • WEST WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO: School board votes to keep April election

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Board of Education on Feb. 7 joined the ranks of those New Jersey public schools that have decided to keep the annual school election in April.    The board agreed to take a cautious approach and observe the impacts on the districts that chose to consolidate elections…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Local educators weigh in on both sides of charter schools bills

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    Two controversial charter school reform bills are working their way to the full Assembly after the Assembly Education Committee approved them at a Feb. 2 hearing.    The first bill would require a public referendum before the establishment or expansion of new charter schools.    The other would increase charter school educational…

  • PRINCETON: Tree panel had a busy year

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    The Princeton Borough Shade Tree Commission had a busy year last year and is looking to expand to continue its work in one last busy year before consolidation, said Polly Burlingham, outgoing chair of the commission as she gave the group’s annual report at last week’s Borough Council meeting.    Twenty-two…

  • PRINCETON: Food waste program coming to borough

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Princeton Borough residents will have an option to reduce their garbage and save the municipality money with a new food waste composting program expanding to their town.    Borough Councilwoman Heather Howard already participates in the program and gladly pays $20 per month out of pocket for it, even though trash…

  • PHS PERSPECTIVE: Use the semicolon; it can add emphasis

    By Melissa Delikouras    When asked to define a semicolon, students at Princeton High School produced a variety of responses that revealed a level of uncertainty associated with this form of punctuation. According to Katie Hayes ‘12, a semicolon is “a dot and a comma vertically parallel to each other that indicate a pause and are…

  • WEST WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO: Schools to consider Diwali next year

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The West Windsor-Plainsboro school district will not be adding Diwali to its list of school holidays just yet.    Recently, Rajan Zed, a Hindu statesman from Nevada, said Hindus want the West Windsor-Plainsboro district along with seven other New Jersey school districts to declare Diwali as a school…

  • MONTGOMERY: Benson donates car to foundation raffle

       MONTGOMERY — Former New York Giants legend Brad Benson and his colleagues at Brad Benson Hyundai on Route 1 in South Brunswick are donating a 2012 Hyundai Veloster to benefit the Montgomery Township Education Foundation raffle.    Tickets are $100 each and no more than 500 tickets will be sold.    The drawing for the winner will…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Parking rates for new lot not decided

    By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Parking Authority talked rates and timelines for the new, 360-space South Lot near the Princeton Junction train station at its Jan. 8 meeting.    Chairman Andy Lupo estimated that the authority would be out in the market with the new bonds sometime in April and that commuters…