Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • WEST WINDSOR: Board reviews InterCap ordinances

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — At its Wednesday meeting, the Planning Board reviewed the ordinances regarding InterCap’s proposed transit village for consistency with the township’s master plan.    Linda Weber of Brown & Keener, an urban design firm, presented a report to the board reviewing the ordinances.    The decision was made to recommend…

  • PRINCETON: Additional pool funding introduced by committee

    By Victoria Hurley-Shubert, Staff Writer    More than $1 million additional funding for the Community Park Pool project has been introduced by the Township Committee.    The measure, introduced Monday night, provides a supplemental appropriation of $1,461,625 for the installation of a new $6.3 million pool complex. It authorizes the issuance of $1,388,543 in bonds or notes…

  • PRINCETON: Coach talks basketball and business

       Basketball and business have a lot in common; more than just businesses buying seats at a game for clients.    Mitch Henderson, the new Princeton University men’s basketball coach, took center court at the Nassau Club this week and outlined some of the similarities at a Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce breakfast.    He spoke about his…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Library of Congress drives into town

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Ever want to see a working draft of the Declaration of Independence? A copy of the first Spiderman comic from 1962? Papers from Alexander Graham Bell?    The place to see all these things was the “Gateway to Knowledge,” a traveling exhibit from the Library of Congress at…

  • PRINCETON: School crossing guards needed

       The Princeton Township Police Department is in urgent need of responsible individuals with an interest in the Princeton community who are willing to become school crossing guards.    Civilian school crossing guards serve a vital function in assisting the Police Department in keeping children safe as they walk and ride to and from school. With enough…

  • PRINCETON: Man who crashed into garage still critical

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    George Atkins, 86, of Clifton, who crashed the Cadillac he was driving into the Spring Street garage on July 30 is still in critical condition, said Capt. Nicolas Sutter of the Princeton Borough Police.    ”We have been unable to interview him due to his condition, but we are still operating…

  • PRINCETON: Police blotter

    Princeton Township    A resident of Kimberly Court reported that at 11:14 p.m. on Aug. 16. a burglar stole two cell phones and a purse from his home. The resident saw an individual with a flashlight in his home and yelled for the burglar to leave. The burglar jumped out of a window. Anyone with information…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Council requests fiscal analysis for transit village

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — One of the repeated requests among West Windsor Council members and members of the public has been for a fiscal analysis of InterCap’s plan for the proposed transit village at Princeton Junction.    The council on Monday came to a verbal agreement to request that a fiscal analysis…

  • PRINCETON: Powder scares in Princeton

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer Two unrelated suspicious powder instances were reported in Princeton on Monday, disrupting operations and forcing quarantines at a business and the hospital.    The first was in Princeton Township when an employee at Church & Dwight, a parent company of Arm & Hammer, reported an unknown powdery substance in the mail…