Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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PLAINSBORO: State buying land for bridge repairs
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer PLAINSBORO The Department of Transportation is purchasing a small plot of land from Plainsboro in preparation for a bridge repair in the township. The parcel is a narrow strip that is required for the state to continue with the improvements to the Schalk’s Crossing bridge over the Amtrak railroad…
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PRINCETON: Waiter’s Race raises funds for nonprofits
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer It was a sweeping Terra Momo victory at the Waiter’s Race in Palmer Square this week with all the top finishers hailing from the restaurant group. The sprint around the square pitted 36 waiters from 13 restaurants against each other for cash and prizes, but most importantly, bragging rights. ”I…
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PRINCETON: Cherry Valley project changes
New traffic patterns will begin on Cherry Valley Road on Tuesday as the installation of curbing begins between Hillside Avenue and State Road (Route 206). Curbing can only be done during the daylight hours, said police. Alternating traffic will occur between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday during the third…
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PRINCETON: Soyuz capsule on display at mall
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer On the heels of the last U.S. space shuttle landing yesterday, a piece of Russian space history has come to Princeton. The Soyuz capsule that took a Montgomery resident to space and back will be on display at a local mall through the fall. Gregory Olsen, president of Princeton-based GHO…
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PLAINSBORO: Cardboard Canoe Race
PLAINSBORO The annual Great Plainsboro Cardboard Canoe Race is scheduled to take place on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Water’s Edge Park. Twenty-five teams of two will build and race boats made of corrugated cardboard and packing tape. It will be paddled by one member of the team. Each team will have one hour…
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WEST WINDSOR: InterCap quits transit village settlement
By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — Negotiations between Township Council, InterCap Holdings and Fair Share Housing Center to build a transit village in Princeton Junction are back to the drawing board, as the council failed to introduce a land use ordinance at Monday’s meeting and InterCap has revoked a litigation settlement. At the…
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MONTGOMERY: Church reaches out to Guatemala
Parishioners of Saint Charles Borromeo pose with members of the Guatemalan community of Santa Isabel in May. Courtesy photo
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POLICE BLOTTER: July 22
Princeton Borough Jacquelin Medini, 24, of Princeton, was arrested on Nassau Street on July 20 for a $392 active traffic warrant from Morris Plains. She was released on her own recognizance pending a court date in Morris Plains Municipal Court. Raymond Clark, 26, of Philadelphia, was arrested on July 20 for a $283 outstanding warrant…
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CENTRAL JERSEY: Proposed charter school gets another year to plan
By Charles W. Kim, The Packet Group The state Department of Education is giving the Princeton International Academy Charter School another year to plan before it opens. The Mandarin-immersion school, initially slated to open in September for 172 K-2 children from Princeton, South Brunswick and West Windsor-Plainsboro in a building on Perrine Road in the…
