Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • WEST WINDSOR: Study suggests more-efficient budgeting process

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council is looking to change the culture of operations and to collaboratively create sustainable budgets in the future.    At the council’s meeting on Monday, Reagan Burkholder of Summit Collaborative Advisors LLC presented the council and administration with 35 recommendations for improving operational efficiency across the…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Students walking in their own designs

    WEST WINDSOR: Students walking in their own designs

    Some of the students’ wearable art on display. Staff photo by Allison Musante

  • WEST WINDSOR: Students walking in their own designs
  • PRINCETON: Discussion centers on government

    Group doubles meetings schedule By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    The Joint Shared Services/Consolidation Commission on Wednesday evening heard about how its subcommittee came to its decision to support the borough form of government.    ”If you read The Princeton Packet yesterday, you read there was a movement afoot on municipal consolidation governance,” said Anton Lahnston, commission…

  • MONTGOMERY: Schools receive high rankings

       MONTGOMERY — Township schools scored high marks on three separate rankings that compare administrative and teaching costs to the other schools in New Jersey and across the country.    The state recently released its annual report card where Montgomery was rated the lowest spending district in Somerset County. Montgomery spends $11,628 per pupil while the state…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Students walking in their own designs
  • WEST WINDSOR: Students walking in their own designs

    WEST WINDSOR: Students walking in their own designs

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Art students at Grover Middle School are expressing themselves on a different kind of canvas — their shoes.    About 100 eighth-graders in classes taught by Diane Lufrano and Sandy Bonasera participated in a month-long project of turning their sneakers and boots into works of art.    Ms. Lufrano…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Candidates readying bids for 14th District

    By Mary Brienza, The Packet Group    SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Republican Councilman John O’Sullivan has announced he will seek his party’s nomination to run against incumbent and former Mercer County Freeholder Daniel Benson for the 14th District seat in the state Assembly.    ”The average person needs to have someone experienced in local government to knock sense…

  • MONTGOMERY: Student ‘speaks out’ on dating violence

    MONTGOMERY — On Friday, Feb. 11, at Montgomery’s Upper Middle School, students in the eighth grade participated in a program on teen dating violence.    This is the first year New Jersey recognizes February as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.    Realizing the importance of educating students on this matter, a Montgomery High School 10th…