Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • MONTGOMERY: Attorney leads state bar association

    MONTGOMERY: Attorney leads state bar association

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — In its 113th year in existence, the New Jersey State Bar Association has done something relatively rare — it appointed a woman as its president.    Attorney Susan A. Feeney, a partner who specializes in tax matters at McCarter & English in Newark, became the seventh female president of…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Storm causes damage

    CENTRAL JERSEY: Storm causes damage

    Above, Princeton Borough employee Jeff Opalski shows the damage to his truck on Friday morning. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • WEST WINDSOR: Penn Lyle work to cause delays

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Drivers can expect minor delays and an uneven road surface for the duration of resurfacing work on Penn Lyle Road.    Work for phase 1 of the project began on Tuesday and will take about 12 weeks to complete. Arawak Paving Group will begin with concrete repair and…

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

    PRINCETON: Planners grant approval to Hillier’s senior housing

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert and Marisa Iati, Staff Writers    Active adults will have more choices for residences in Princeton since Copperwood, an active adult rental community, received approval from the Planning Board on Thursday night.    The 153-apartment complex will be built off Bunn Drive, on the Princeton Ridge, in a cluster of five buildings. The units,…

  • PRINCETON: Area kids and businesses fighting plastic bags

    PRINCETON: Area kids and businesses fighting plastic bags

    Members of Stone Soup Circus perform on the green at Palmer Square in Princeton to help launch the BYOBag campaign on Thursday evening. Staff photo by Victoria Hurley-Schubert

  • PRINCETON: Area kids and businesses fighting plastic bags

    PRINCETON: Area kids and businesses fighting plastic bags

    Dan Harris, a member of the BYOBag steering committee, displays his commitment to the program. Staff photo by Victoria Hurley-Schubert

  • PRINCETON: Officers to carry torch for Special Olympics

       Traffic delays are expected with more than 3,000 officers from across New Jersey who will carrying the Special Olympics torch 900 miles across NewJersey today.    The flame will reach more than 300 local communities, including Princeton.    The final destination of the torch run is the Opening Ceremonies of the 2011 Summer Games at Lions Stadium…

  • PRINCETON: PDS teams compete in Destination ImagiNation

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    Sometimes, winning isn’t everything.    Two teams of Princeton Day School sixth graders learned this when they traveled to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in late May to compete in the 2011 Destination ImagiNation Global Competition.    And though they did not walk away with top-rankings among the 1,000 DI teams…

  • PRINCETON: Schools close early due to heat wave

    By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer    Princeton residents flocked out of schools and to the pool to escape the heat as temperatures soared into the high 90s this week.    The National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning for Mercer County Thursday, stating, “an early season heat wave is under way.”    Thursday’s temperatures approached 98 degrees…