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  • MONTGOMERY: New pet store has utopian vision

    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…

  • PRINCETON: School gets $7.95 million gift of Hamptons property

    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.…

  • 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…

  • PRINCETON: Graduate housing stock shuffled at Princeton U

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    Housing provided by Princeton University for its graduate students as well as its faculty and staff at sites scattered around Princeton is undergoing a transformation as the university enacts its 10-year Master Plan.    The plan calls for the redevelopment of two apartment complexes located along Faculty Road, the demolition…

  • ROCKY HILL: Boro recouping leftover school funds

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Nearly six months after the sudden shutdown of the Rocky Hill Board of Education, nearly $160,000 of its leftover funds will be returned to the borough.    The balance of the district’s assets were transferred to the Montgomery Township School District this summer as the result of legislation that…

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  • PRINCETON: Township raising fire code inspection fees

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    Fire Prevention Bureau fees collected for inspections of businesses in Princeton Township will see a 4 percent increase next year, a dramatic decrease from a hike of 20 percent proposed last month.    The Princeton Township Committee held a work session at its meeting Monday night to discuss next year’s fire…

  • PRINCETON: Boro swears in new police chief

    PRINCETON: Boro swears in new police chief

    File photo by Mark Czajkowski Former Princeton Borough Police Chief David Dudeck.

  • PRINCETON: Boro Council rejects police consultant’s advice

    By Lauren Otis Staff Writer    In a move that might be characterized as “splitting the baby” on police oversight, Princeton Borough Council voted to divide oversight authority of its Police Department between its Public Safety Committee and borough administrator.    Despite an impassioned plea by one council member to transfer authority fully to the borough administrator…