Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: Two Valley Road tenants get extensions on leases

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    CornerHouse and Princeton Community Television don’t need to pack their moving boxes just yet. The youth counseling service and television station were granted stays at their Valley Road homes after initially being ordered to vacate by the end of this month, according to an announcement at Tuesday night’s joint Princeton…

  • PLAINSBORO: Wicoff garden helps students put science to work

    PLAINSBORO: Wicoff garden helps students put science to work

    By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — An initiative to teach Wicoff Elementary School students about science while instilling in them a love of nature came to fruition recently when a team of teachers and volunteers created a garden at the school.    Wicoff hosted a grand opening ceremony at which students read poems they have…

  • WEST WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO: District working on field lights policy

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR-PLAINSBORO — Tying up loose ends at its last meeting of the school year, the Board of Education discussed proposed field lights policies, approved capital projects and welcomed back a former student as the new assistant principal at Grover Middle School.    The board approved an agreement in December with…

  • PRINCETON: Fire department will parade Friday

       Princeton Fire Department Chief Dan Tomalin, along with the members of the Princeton Fire Department, announce that the annual fire parade and inspection will take place Friday at 7 p.m.    The parade for Princeton’s all-volunteer fire department will begin at the corner of Chestnut and Nassau streets. The parade will proceed down Nassau Street and…

  • PRINCETON: Planners grant approval to Hillier’s senior housing

    PRINCETON: Planners grant approval to Hillier’s senior housing

    An artist’s drawing of Copperwood, the 153-unit apartment complex to be built off of Bunn Drive in Prince´ton by developer J. Robert Hillier.

  • PRINCETON: GiveAway finds new home for school supplies

    PRINCETON: GiveAway finds new home for school supplies

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    PRINCETON — Princeton Day School students are putting their old school supplies to good use — they’re donating them to HomeFront, an area organization that helps families break the cycle of poverty.    The students closed out their school year with The Great GiveAway, an annual project launched last year. The…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Storm causes damage
  • MONTGOMERY: Police ponder bomb threat charges

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Police have determined that the bomb threat that led to the evacuation and temporary closure of all locations of Princeton Orthopedic Associates Thursday afternoon was made by two boys with a cell phone they borrowed from a female classmate during a school trip in Newark.    ”She did not…

  • PRINCETON: GiveAway finds new home for school supplies

    PRINCETON: GiveAway finds new home for school supplies

    Princeton Day School students collected old school sup´plies as part of The Great GiveAway.