Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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PRINCETON: Holiday shoppers get free weekend parking
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer From now until Christmas, Sunday parking at downtown Princeton meters will be free. The free Sunday parking for the next three weekends is an effort by Princeton merchants and the borough to facilitate holiday shopping downtown. Last year there was no Sunday metered parking, but Borough Council initiated the practice…
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PRINCETON: Mike’s Barber Shop closes its doors
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer The ranks of traditional barbershops downtown just thinned with the recent closing of Mike’s Barber Shop on Witherspoon Street. About two weeks ago, the barbershop Mike Zingaro operated since 2006 abruptly closed its doors. Mr. Zingaro was a long-time barber in Princeton, having managed the Rialto Barber Shop for years…
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PRINCETON: Consolidation grants to remain under Christie?
By Lauren Otis and Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writers State resources and grant funds for facilitating consolidation of municipalities, which the Princetons are counting on for their own study effort, are likely to remain in place when Republican Chris Christie becomes governor next year, according to the state official charged with working with municipalities on the…
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MONTGOMERY: Vets bear witness to Pearl Harbor, Battle of Bulge
By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — Harrowing personal experiences from both sides of America’s involvement in World War II were related to Montgomery High School students last week as part of a program honoring the country’s veterans. Thomas Mahoney, 87, a survivor the attack on Pearl Harbor, and George Waple, 88, who fought in…
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PRINCETON: A tenant suit is settled
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Princeton landlord Sanford Zeitler has settled a two-year-old lawsuit over allegations he wrongfully withheld rent security deposits and other claims from tenants, according to the tenants’ attorney, Roger Martindell. Mr. Zeitler settled the 13-count civil complaint for $55,000, said Mr. Martindell, who is a Princeton Borough councilman. ”The five people…
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PRINCETON: Boro Council backpedals on PD oversight change
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Backpedaling from a decision to assign full police oversight to their borough administrator — as they had voted to do Nov. 10, at the urging of an outside consultant — members of Princeton Borough Council have asked for new language that would keep such authority with their Public Safety Committee.…
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WEST WINDSOR: A Thanksgiving lesson at Village School
By John Saccenti, Staff Writer In the back hall of Village School, three kids struggled with a cardboard box wrapped in yellow construction paper. Brimming with canned goods and other food, its sides seemed ready to burst as the three carefully carried it over the carpeted floor before vanishing through a classroom door. The fifth-graders…
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PRINCETON: Falling leaves land on Township Committee agenda
By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer Pointing to the piles of leaves clogging storm drains and creeping into roadways throughout the township, members of the Princeton Environmental Commission asked the Township Committee to expand enforcement of its leaf collection ordinance. Commission member Matthew Wasserman, a resident of Meadowbrook Drive, said in a committee work session Monday…
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PRINCETON: Boro told it must toughen underage drinking law
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer The party may be over for undergraduate revelers and other underage drinkers in Princeton Borough as Borough Attorney Karen Cayci told Borough Council members the municipal judge was refusing to enforce more lenient borough ordinances, which are superceded by state criminal statutes. Princeton Municipal Court Judge Bonnie Goldman was “very…
