Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PLAINSBORO: Ushering in the rabbit

    PLAINSBORO: Ushering in the rabbit

    Phil McAuliffe Linda Liu of Plainsboro serves dumplings as part of the annual Chinese New Year celebration held on Saturday at the Plainsboro Public Library. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • WEST WINDSOR: Council is asked to spend more in suit against mayor

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — “A total waste of tax dollars” is how Township Council President Kamal Khanna described an ongoing lawsuit between council member Charles Morgan and Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh at the township meeting Monday night.    Administrator Bob Hary presented council with a resolution authorizing the allocation of an additional $5,000…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: County economic summit on March 16

       ”Making Connections,” the 2011 Mercer County Economic Summit is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 16, from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Conference Center at Mercer County Community College, 1200 Old Trenton Road in West Windsor.    The summit is being presented by Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes, the Mercer County Board of…

  • MONTGOMERY: Annual fire district election is Feb. 19

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — The annual fire district elections and budget referenda will be held from 2 to 9 p.m. on Saturday at the Montgomery Township Fire District No. 1 firehouse at 35 Griggstown Road in Belle Mead and at the Montgomery Township Fire District No. 2 firehouse at 529 Route 518…

  • NEWS BRIEFS: Feb. 15

    Senior forum on consolidation today    Princeton Senior Resource Center will host a Forum for the Consolidation Commission today at 10:30 a.m., in the Suzanne Patterson Building behind Borough Hall.    The forum is intended to be a dialogue between the commission and the Princeton senior community about current governance and services in the two Princetons.…

  • PRINCETON: Princeton Future discusses master plan

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    Likening the Witherspoon Street corridor to a jigsaw puzzle, Princeton Future began a dialogue about bringing pieces of the area together at a meeting on Saturday morning.    Puzzle pieces included the public works area, the Valley Road School site, fields behind the board of education property, and parking and traffic…

  • PLAINSBORO: Ushering in the rabbit

    PLAINSBORO: Ushering in the rabbit

    Crowds turn out for annual Chinese New Year celebration By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — Steaming pans sizzling with dumplings, sticky faced children holding gold dragon lollipops and bursts of applause and laughter under a sky of red lanterns made up an energetic and joyous scene at the Plainsboro Public Library’s celebration of Chinese…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Census shows population spikes, declines

    By Stephanie Vaccaro, Staff Writer    The 2010 Census figures for New Jersey have been released and Montgomery Township and West Windsor both experienced more than 20 percent growth in the 10-year period, while the population in Princeton Borough saw more than a 13 percent decline.    Montgomery Township experienced the most growth from 2000 to 2010…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Woman pleads not guilty to murder by poison charge

    CENTRAL JERSEY: Woman pleads not guilty to murder by poison charge

    By David Kilby, The Packet Group    Tianle Li of Stanley Drive, Monroe, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the murder of her husband, Xiaoye Wang, who died from a rare poison at the University Medical Center at Princeton on Jan. 26.    Ms. Li, a chemist who worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb in Lawrence, was charged with murder…