Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: 4 PDs respond to PU campus brawl

       PRINCETON — Pepper spray was used to break up a large fight that broke out in the early morning hours during a dance on the Princeton University campus, according to the university’s Department of Public Safety.    About 10 to 20 people were involved in the scuffle that involved pushing, shoving and punching at the Caribbean…

  • MONTGOMERY: Parties still split on Skillman sale

    By Kristine Snodgrass Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Township Committeeman Mark Caliguire, who will become part of a new Republican majority next month, dismissed a Democratic committman’s last ditch attempt Thursday to exclude potential affordable housing parcels from the proposed sale of Skillman Village to Somerset County.    Republicans will gain a 3-2 majority on the committee…

  • PRINCETON: Boro’s new police chief came up through the ranks

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    In 1983, David Dudeck took a job as a rookie patrolman with the Princeton Borough Police Department.    He never left.    ”I’ve pretty much gone through the whole gamut and held about every position in the department,” he said Monday.    Every position except one, that is.    That will change tonight when…

  • PRINCETON: Appointment-only H1N1 shots offered Saturday

       The Princeton Regional Health Department will be holding a public H1N1 vaccination clinic on Saturday, Dec. 12 at the John Witherspoon Middle School at 217 Walnut Lane.    Vaccinations for H1N1 (swine flu) will be available by appointment only between the hours of 9 AM and 2 PM in the school cafeteria (the entrance faces Guyot…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Holiday gift wrapping to fund prom party

    By John Saccenti, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Parents and community leaders want to give the students of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South a prom night gift.    Dec. 13 and 14 and again Dec. 20 and 21, parent volunteers will be at the Princeton Market Fair to wrap presents for holiday shoppers as a way…

  • PRINCETON: David Dudeck to be boro’s new police chief

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Lieutenant David Dudeck will be Princeton Borough’s next Police Chief. In closed session on Thursday evening, Princeton Borough Council unanimously voted to offer Lt. Dudeck the chief’s job, said Borough Administrator Robert Bruschi. "He’s very excited," Mr. Bruschi said. "Obviously Nick and Sharon are very disappointed but they are all…

  • WEST WINDSOR: HS South students walk out for employees

    By John Saccenti, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — A group of West Windsor-Plainsboro South students showed that their lessons have been learned, Wednesday, when they brought their lessons on civil disobedience to life on school grounds.    About a hundred High School South students emerged from the school’s front doors at about 11:15 a.m., waving signs…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Hybrid vehicle considered by township

    By John Saccenti, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council is looking at more ways to go “green.”    The council on Monday will consider purchasing a 2010 Ford Escape hybrid four-wheel drive vehicle to be used for the Department of Community Development and the Division of Code Enforcement.    Township Business Administrator Robert Hary said…

  • PRINCETON: Boro Council meeting on police chief choice

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Princeton Borough Council met twice this week in closed session to select a new police chief and to come to conclusions over several pending disciplinary cases.    On Tuesday afternoon, according to several council members in attendance, Borough Council met at length with each of the three borough police lieutenants who…