Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • 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…

  • MONTGOMERY: Township adds to Cherry Brook

    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…

  • 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.…

  • PRINCETON: PFARS members recall Kenwood’s contributions
  • 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,…

  • PRINCETON: PFARS members recall Kenwood’s contributions

    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…

  • PRINCETON: Squad, police, family bid farewell to EMT
  • 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…

  • PRINCETON: Fallen EMT laid to rest

    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…