Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • 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.

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Storm causes damage

    CENTRAL JERSEY: Storm causes damage

       Severe thunderstorms on Thursday evening brought down trees and wires, causing some power outages and closing numerous roads, some of which remained closed Friday morning, which caused traffic detours and long delays.    In Princeton Township, the first calls were received by police at approximately 7:40 p.m. reporting wires and trees down blocking Cherry Valley Road…

  • PRINCETON: Area kids and businesses fighting plastic bags

    PRINCETON: Area kids and businesses fighting plastic bags

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Change a habit and change the world is the motto of Sustainable Princeton’s BYOBag campaign, which launched Thursday evening.    One bag and one customer at a time, the group is trying to change people’s habit of using plastic bags when they are shopping and running errands.    Local businesses and kids…

  • PRINCETON: At new Palmer Square shop, c’est cheese

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    A new fromagerie opened its doors to Palmer Square this month.    More than 250 cheeses from around the world are going to be offered at Olsson’s Fine Foods. There are 17 bleu cheeses offered now, and more are on their way and half a dozen Goudas and at least that…