Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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CENTRAL JERSEY: Power returns to customers
Fewer than 7,500 PSE&G customers remain without service due to Hurricane Irene, the company said Thursday afternoon. The outages are scattered throughout the company’s service territory. Having restored service to circuits that serve large numbers of customers, crews are now completing the isolated complex problems, such as where trees that have fallen across wires and…
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MONTGOMERY: Township adds to Cherry Brook
MONTGOMERY — The township has purchased a 16-acre forested parcel that completes the Cherry Brook Preserve in southern Montgomery. The property is surrounded by township-owned open space. This acquisition increases the acreage of the Cherry Brook Preserve to over 375 acres of contiguous open space. ”I am pleased to see that even in this economic…
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WEST WINDSOR: Passenger in Lexus smashes windshield
WEST WINDSOR After a green Lexus SUV was stopped by police on Aug. 25 for swerving and driving 20 miles under the speed limit, and officers determined that passenger Ran Reddy Thatigutla, 44, of Parsippany, had engaged his family in a verbal argument and punched out the windshield of the vehicle. At 9:38 p.m.…
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PRINCETON: Hardware store reaps benefits from Irene’s visit
By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer While Hurricane Irene negatively impacted many area businesses, one store fared quite well. George Smith, co-owner of Smith’s Ace Hardware in the Princeton Shopping Center, reported that his sales doubled during the storm, despite the store having closed on Sunday while it was without power. Come Monday though, the store,…
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PRINCETON: PFARS members recall Kenwood’s contributions
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer Michael Kenwood was an integral member of the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad. He was an emergency medical technician, a morale trustee, member of several committees and the information technology administrator and an ambulance driver. ”Mike was the kind of guy who would see a challenge, he would meet…
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IRENE: Rail services restored on Northeast Corridor
NJ TRANSIT restored rail service Wednesday morning on the Northeast Corridor from Trenton Transit Center to New York Penn Station, following a service suspension on a portion of the line between Trenton and New Brunswick due to damage caused by earlier flooding. After being given the all clear from Amtrak to run test trains Tuesday…
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PRINCETON: Fallen EMT laid to rest
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer A Princeton hero was laid to rest Wednesday. Emergency Medical Technician Michael Kenwood, 39, the Princeton First Aid and Rescue Squad (PFARS) member who died from injuries sustained during an attempted swift water rescue at an abandoned car in the western section of Princeton Township on Sunday, was memorialized Wednesday…
