Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PLAINSBORO: House evacuated after kitchen fire

    By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — A small fire that started in the kitchen led to the evacuation of an Aspen Drive house on Saturday evening, Nov. 12.    ”It was just a small, isolated incident,” said police Lt. Joseph Duffy. “We bring as much resource we think to contain it.”    Police got the fire…

  • MONTGOMERY: School head is resigning

    By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Montgomery Township School District Superintendent Earl Kim is resigning as of June 30 and will be moving to Hawaii, where he grew up.    Mr. Kim, 48, who has been the superintendent for four years, notified the Board of Education on Nov. 9. He will take a position as…

  • MONTGOMERY: Skillman family happy with name of new park

    By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Although a piece of Skillman history has a new name, that doesn’t change its meaning to its namesake family.    The former Skillman Village, now known as Skillman Park, is part of the town that is named for the great-grandfather of life-long resident and seventh-generation Thomas Stryker Skillman.    He…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

       William Johnson Ogilvy Holden, 19, of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., was charged with criminal mischief, resisting arrest, aggravated assault on a police officer, obstructing the administration of law at 2:59 a.m. on Nov. 13 at the Dinky train station. Police said Mr. Holden was breaking windows on the south side of the station. When he…

  • MONTGOMERY: Veterans Memorial dedicated

    By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Former Princeton Township mayor and World War II veteran Winthrop Pike, 91, came out to see his name on the new Montgomery Park Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day.    His wife, Nancy, and his daughter, Kristina Hadinger, who is Montgomery Township’s attorney, accompanied him.    ”It was great to see…

  • Princeton observes Veterans Day

    By Heather Niccoli, Staff Writer    The borough and the township got together once again on Friday, Veterans Day, to remember those who have served and those who are serving.    ”Many of you know, over the years I have stood with you as we pay tribute to the veterans of this country and also as we…

  • PHS PERSPECTIVE: Sleep deprivation: An inevitability at PHS?

    By Byrne Fahey and Pia Chakravarty     What time did you go to bed last night?     “Usually I’ll go to bed at two and wake up at six,” said Meryl Stone, a senior at Princeton High School.     Catherine Sawyer ‘13, estimated that she gets “maybe five to six hours of sleep a night”…

  • PRINCETON: New track taken in Dinky debate

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Some borough officials are hoping to remove the motivation to move the Dinky station by introducing an amendment to the proposed zoning for Princeton University’s proposed arts and transit project.    The $300 million proposed project moves the station 460 feet south from its current location. Five years after the train…

  • PRINCETON: Packet Media Group offered for sale

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Packet Media Group, which includes The Princeton Packet and Packet Publications, is for sale as owner James B. Kilgore prepares for retirement.    The 63-year-old Princetonian has been in publishing for 37 years and at The Packet for 35 years, 31 as publisher. He did not announce a specific date for…