Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter
Princeton Township Jaime Valenzuela-Zavala, 30, of Lanham, Md., was charged with driving while intoxicated within 1,000 feet of a school, reckless driving and failing to keep right after police received a call at 1:33 a.m. on July 4 reporting an erratic driver in a Ford pickup swerving and driving slowly on Jefferson Road in Princeton…
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WEST WINDSOR: Township wins tax exempt ruling
WEST WINDSOR The New Jersey Supreme Court has affirmed an earlier decision by the Appellate Division that property owned by International Schools Services in West Windsor is not tax exempt. As a result of the determination made by the township to remove the property from tax-exempt status, the township will have received more than…
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PRINCETON: No finding yet on beaver killings
By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer Two months after two beavers were shot and killed in a park by the Princeton animal control officer, the investigation is ongoing with no real results given by officials. State officials are still examining the shooting of the beavers in Pettoranello Gardens in Community Park North in May by Princeton…
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PRINCETON: Bus from Dartmouth runs on vegetable oil
By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer Princeton became a little more green Tuesday when 13 students from Dartmouth College parked their Big Green Bus on Witherspoon Street to promote environmental sustainability. The students are traveling 12,000 miles through 31 states on a bright green Greyhound bus that they converted to run primarily on used vegetable oil.…
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PRINCETON: Princeton Day students to perform in Edinburgh
By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer When Princeton Day School artist-in-residence Stan Cahill thought about broadening his students’ educational experience, he knew the next step would be to give his students exposure on an international level. And so they set about a two-year process that will culminate with taking 29 students to Scotland this August where…
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PRINCETON: Council has questions about pool recommendation
By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer After the recommendation of the Joint Recreation Board, which was to replace the Community Park Pool with a new concrete pool for about $5.8 million, the Princeton Borough Council’s discussion at its meeting Tuesday raised more questions than answers. Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi presented the findings of the Joint Recreation…
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MONTGOMERY: Schools opt out of Newsweek listing
By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY Each year, Newsweek devises a list of the “best” high schools in the country with the criteria of how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level courses and tests. Once again, Montgomery Township Schools have opted out of participating in the rankings. The statement…
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PRINCETON: Sewer bills are going up
By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer Sewer rates are on the rise to offset the moving of the hospital to neighboring Plainsboro. On Tuesday, the Princeton Borough Council passed a resolution raising the rates for owners receiving water from New Jersey American Water. The rates will be as follows: $66 per thousand cubic feet of metered…
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PLAINSBORO: Township part of helmet safety campaign
By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer PLAINSBORO Children will be rewarded for wearing helmets this summer as part of the sixth annual “Wheels Under Your Feet? Helmet on Your Head!” Think Positive Campaign sponsored by Safe Kids Middlesex County of the Level One Trauma Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. The…
