Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: ‘This Week in Education’ debuts on community TV

    PRINCETON: ‘This Week in Education’ debuts on community TV

    Phil McAuliffe Princeton University student Audrye Wong operates the camera during a taping of a new show produced by the Princeton Re´gional Schools.

  • PLAINSBORO: Damage to roof causes move for church services

    PLAINSBORO: Damage to roof causes move for church services

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — Parishioners of the Queenship of Mary have relocated masses and other activities after the rook of the church nearly caved in on the morning of Jan. 19.    According to the congregation’s pastor, the Rev. Robert Medley, the church maintenance man heard a deafening bang at about 7:30 a.m.…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Rite Aid pharmacy could have new home by summer

    WEST WINDSOR: Rite Aid pharmacy could have new home by summer

    Demolition under way at site By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Demolition of two vacant buildings at Cranbury Road and Route 571 has begun, with a timetable of revamping the site and giving Rite Aid a new home by the summer.    Work began on Jan. 19 to clear the two buildings — formerly…

  • PRINCETON: ‘This Week in Education’ debuts on community TV

    PRINCETON: ‘This Week in Education’ debuts on community TV

       When Audrye Wong accompanied Assistant Superintendent Lewis Goldstein to the taping of “This Week in Education,” a new weekly show about Princeton Regional Schools, she thought she was there to observe. Little did the Princeton University sophomore know that her work-study role with the school district would include camera work as well.    And so it…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Rite Aid pharmacy could have new home by summer

    WEST WINDSOR: Rite Aid pharmacy could have new home by summer

    Phil McAuliffe McAuliffeWork has begun to demolish two vacant buildings at the corner of Cranbury Road and Route 571 in West Windsor that will be the new home of a Rite Aid store.

  • PRINCETON: Committee honors recreation director

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    The retiring recreation director was honored with his own day in Princeton Township — Jan. 24, 2011 — and given a proclamation by the Township Committee at its Monday night meeting for his years of service throughout his lengthy career.    ”Whereas Jack Roberts will retire on Aug. 11, 2011, after…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Firm asked to stop buying swans after one is killed

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The township’s animal control services has strongly recommended that Boston Properties, the owners of Carnegie Center, cease purchasing swans after one was killed by a loose dog two weeks ago.    Officer Bettina Roed of animal control services said she received a call in the afternoon of Jan.…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Local man gets inside view of State of the Union speech

    CENTRAL JERSEY: Local man gets inside view of State of the Union speech

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    In one whirlwind day, a Princeton resident got a private tour of the Capitol, attended a party with Washington bigwigs and attended the State of the Union address in the visitors gallery.    ”I’ve done a lot of campaign work for President Obama in 2008 and this past fall for Rep.…

  • PLAINSBORO: Dance instructor opens Plainsboro Village studio

    PLAINSBORO: Dance instructor opens Plainsboro Village studio

    By Allison Musante, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — Robin Silverman-Krakowksi began taking dance lessons at Dance Spectrums in West Windsor when she was 9 years old. She later came to own that studio and has since built a small empire of studios in the area, including her most recent location in Plainsboro.    Dance Expo in the…