Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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WEST WINDSOR: Turtle crossing signs due to 3d-grader efforts
By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR Wednesday afternoon was the culmination of a year-long effort by a Wicoff Elementary School third-grade teacher and her students when they stood before two “Turtle X-ing” signs at Grovers Mill Pond. The project began after Lizbeth Reil’s class heard a lecture by Dr. Sven Strnad about road…
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PRINCETON AREA: Towns eye school elections
By Charley Falkenburg Staff Writer New Jersey municipality and school district officials begin to weigh the pros and cons of moving their April school elections to November after a bill was passed giving them the option to do so. The bill that the Assembly passed on Jan. 10 gives voters, municipalities and school districts the…
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Mergers, changing of the guard and some specials
By Bradley Koltz Two family-owned real estate brokerages have recently merged. NT Callaway and Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty have become Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s International Realty, with five offices covering much of Central Jersey. The new firm, with more than 200 agents, will keep principles from both firms, each with deep roots in Princeton and Central…
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PRINCETON: Three borough residents named to task force
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer Three borough residents were named to the Transition Task Force on Tuesday night. Brad Middlekauff, an attorney; Mark Freda, the borough’s former emergency services director; and Hendricks Davis, who has developed affordable communities and has social service experience. Jim Levine,who has human resources experience, was named as an alternate. Mayor…
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WEST WINDSOR: School bus driver charged after hitting police cruiser
By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR A school bus driver was charged with careless driving on Tuesday morning after her bus, with 20 students on board, struck a police cruiser, sending an officer to the hospital. None of the students or the bus driver was injured, but the officer suffered a neck injury.…
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PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter
Princeton Borough Jose Wahlung, 39, of John Street, was charged with possession of marijuana under 50 grams at 2: 14 a.m. on Jan. 13 on Greenview Avenue. Police said he was stopped after riding his bicycle in a hazardous manner in the lane of motor vehicle traffic that was on Wiggins Street. Nimit Bansal, 41…
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MONTGOMERY: Community comes to aid of leukemia victim
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY When 16-year-old survivor Liam Terregrossa of Rocky Hill was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia in the summer of 2011, Mary Penney wasted no time in banding together the greater Montgomery community to support Mr. Terregrossa and his family. Communities of people united together to go above…
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WEST WINDSOR: Shared services on agenda
By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR There will be a full agenda for the West Windsor Township Council meeting tonight. The main item on the agenda is shared services with different municipalities. ”We will continue shared service talk about what we want to do,” said Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh. “We wanted this new council…
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PRINCETON: Middle school students, mayors celebrate MLK
By Charley Falkenburg, Staff Writer The John Witherspoon Middle School celebrated the life, legacy and leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 12 with a special assembly that has become a long-standing tradition at the school. The assembly featured former Princeton mayors Mildred Trotman and Michele Tuck-Ponder and Mayor Yina Moore, performances by…
