Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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PLAINSBORO: Report gives Rt. 571 intersection poor grades
By John Saccenti, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — There were 154 motor vehicle accidents on Route 571 between 2005 and 2007 with the majority of those occurring at the intersection of Wallace and Cranbury roads. According to a report on proposed improvements to Route 571 by John Kovar of the Louis Berger Group, Route 571…
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WEST WINDSOR: Council OKs hybrid car purchase
By John Saccenti, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — The Township Committee approved the purchase of a $29,000 hybrid car Monday. The 2010 Ford Escape hybrid four-wheel drive vehicle will be used for the township Department of Community Development and the Division of Code Enforcement. Township Business Administrator Robert Hary said the purchase could count toward…
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MONTGOMERY: New pet store has utopian vision
Michael Growney, in his new Utopia for Pets store in Montgomery.
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PRINCETON: School gets $7.95 million gift of Hamptons property
A view of the $7.95 million Hamptons property in Amagansett, NY that has been donated to the Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart.
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PRINCETON: YMCA, UMC team up to fight childhood obesity
By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer The Princeton Family YMCA and the outpatient clinic at the University Medical Center at Princeton are teaming up in an effort to combat childhood obesity, focusing on the community’s Latino population. The program, which is supported by funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will be kicked off next…
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MONTGOMERY: Police say apartment fire death was a suicide
By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — A 53-year-old Montgomery Township man died in an apartment fire over the weekend in what police said was an apparent suicide. Police were dispatched to a first-floor apartment on Primrose Court in Pike Run for a fire call at 9 a.m. Saturday. Upon arrival, they found the…
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MONTGOMERY: New pet store has utopian vision
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — When Michael Growney recently sold his Hillsborough and Montgomery-based pet sitting and dog training business, he looked around for another business opportunity. He realized Montgomery did not have a specialty pet supply business, forcing with pet enthusiasts to drive out of their way or rely on impersonal big…
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PRINCETON: School gets $7.95 million gift of Hamptons property
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer It is the kind of news every headmaster of a young and growing school dreams of hearing — a sympathetic — and wealthy — supporter steps forward with an unexpected gift of dazzling largess. Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart Headmaster Olen Kalkus has lived the dream. This fall, Mr.…
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TRENTON: State board OKs Princeton consolidation study
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer TRENTON — The New Jersey Local Finance Board has unanimously approved the application of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township to form a consolidation study commission in order to explore the possibility of either full municipal consolidation or sharing further services. The vote came after a brief early-afternoon hearing at the…
