Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • BUSINESS: Massimo’s Cafe, on Nassau St., moves to expand

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer   PRINCETON —  Massimo’s Café is sliding three doors down and expanding, bumping up its space by nearly half.    The move began over the weekend, when owner Sal Mazzella and fifteen friends were set to start moving the fixtures and setting up the new space. Mr. Mazzella said he decided to…

  • PRINCETON: University scientists may have found oldest fossils

    PRINCETON: University scientists may have found oldest fossils

    Adam C Maloof Princeton University scientists, right, at the scene of their discovery of fossils in South Australia. The fossils may be the earliest evidence of animal life on Earth. Photo courtesy of Adam Maloof

  • PRINCETON: PHS graduate and soldier tells of tour in Iraq

    PRINCETON: PHS graduate and soldier tells of tour in Iraq

    By Natalia Knochowski, The Packet Group    What do you do when you’re in Iraq, it’s 120 degrees outside, and you’re bored?    If you’re 22-year-old Cranbury resident Jonathan Bowker, who is deployed in Iraq for about a year, you sometimes “find something completely random and play Iraqi Scavenger Hunt on patrols just to have some fun.”…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Arts Center plans a fall grand opening

       WEST WINDSOR—Nine years in the making, the West Windsor Arts Center is slated to kick off with a grand opening in the fall.    Back in 2001, 11 people gathered in the great room of the Princeton Junction firehouse with the idea of providing arts to the community. This autumn, their vision will become a reality…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Blood drive for survivor of crash that killed WW man

    By Joanne Degnan, The Packet Group    HIGHTSTOWN — Residents from Hightstown and nearby communities joined scores of police, firemen and EMS workers from throughout the area in rolling up their sleeves Monday to donate blood for local firefighter Mark Kramer, who was seriously injured last week in a motorcycle crash on Route 130.    A second…

  • ROCKY HILL: Sewer service area changes proposed for boro

    By Geoffrey Wertime, Staff Writer    ROCKY HILL — Borough residents have until mid-September to comment on the county’s proposed new sewer service areas.    While the plan slates certain areas of the borough for removal from the service area, the focus is on avoiding environmentally sensitive areas. Sections of some residential properties may be touched, but…

  • PRINCETON: PHS graduate and soldier tells of tour in Iraq

    PRINCETON: PHS graduate and soldier tells of tour in Iraq

    Army Specialist Jonathan Bowker of Cranbury, a 2005 graduate of Princeton High School, demonstrates the difficulty of eating gummy bears in Iraq’s 100-plus degree weather. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe

  • PRINCETON: Borough Council approves parking changes

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer    PRINCETON —  Metered parking was reinstated along Spring Street and a handicap space was added to Witherspoon Alley at Tuesday’s Princeton Borough Council meeting.    ”We shifted the existing two-hour meters closer to Spring Street and added another,” said Christopher M. Budzinski, borough engineer. There are now five meters on Spring…

  • PRINCETON: Boro Council member calls for revaluation do-over

    By Victoria Hurley-Schubert, Staff Writer   PRINCETON —  Angry reaction to property tax revaluations in the Princetons prompted at least one member of the Borough Council to call for a do-over this week. Councilwoman Jenny Crumiller, in a meeting crowded with unhappy homeowners on Tuesday night, said: “I think we should redo the revaluation.”    Responding to…