Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON: State Legislature hopefuls to debate
Candidates for the state Legislature’s 16th District will debate and answer questions from the audience on Monday, Oct. 17 in Princeton. Since redistricting took place, Princeton and South Brunswick are new to the 16th District and to its incumbents and their challengers. The event, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Princeton Area,…
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PRINCETON: Borough mayoral candidates answer questions
Editor’s note: These are the verbatim responses of the candidates for Princeton Borough mayor to questions presented by The League of Women Voters of the Princeton Area in cooperation with The Princeton Packet. The candidates were allowed to vary the length of their answers to the three questions but were given a word limit for…
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PRINCETON: Details of fatal rescue attempt released
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer The death of Michael Kenwood, a Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad (PFARS) member, has been ruled accidental because of acute asphyxia due to drowning, according to details in materials provided to The Princeton Packet from Princeton Township Police under an Open Public Records Act request. It is also revealed…
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PRINCETON: Music, food, fun for a cause
By Miriam Geronimus, Special to the Packet With 30 seconds left, Callum McKenney, 12, shoved his face into a pumpkin pie and twirled the dish in a circle as he slurped up its contents. With face, hands and shirt covered in pie, he won the children’s pie-eating contest at the Witherspoon Grill’s third annual Harvest…
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MONTGOMERY: Township committeeman resigns
MONTGOMERY Republican Township Committeeman Thom Carter resigned on Thursday after serving two years of his three-year term to take a job in Australia. Mr. Carter, 33, has been working for Major League Baseball in Australia since mid-June. The assignment was to have been for three months, but officials inside Major League Baseball and the…
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PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter
Princeton Township Barton R. Cartwright Jr., 25, of Leigh Avenue was charged with a traffic warrant arrest at 9:53 p.m. on Oct. 6 at the intersection of Witherspoon Street and Leigh Avenue. Police said Mr. Cartwright was released on a $114 bond out of West Windsor Municipal Court. Joaquin Monge, 39, of Varsity Place was…
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PRINCETON: PCDO chairman joins Wall Street marchers
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer The chairman of the Princeton Community Democratic Organization joined the Occupy Wall Street march in New York earlier this month because he is “in sympathy with the views being expressed.” Dan Preston described the demonstrations as “a rallying cry, a demand that society work for the vast majority and not…
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PRINCETON: Board OKs arts district zoning changes
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Changes to Princeton Borough’s zoning ordinance and Princeton Township’s zoning ordinance that relate to Princeton University’s proposed arts and transit development project were approved by the Regional Planning Board of Princeton last week. Now it will be up to the Princeton Borough Council and Princeton Township Committee to take final…
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PRINCETON>: 25 years of helping adolescents
By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer HiTOPS, with its quiet facade on Wiggins Street, is nearing its 25th anniversary. During the quarter of a century since its inception, the nonprofit has expanded its reach and touched the lives of thousands of area youth with its aim of promoting the health and well being of adolescents, defined…
