Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PHOTO FEATURE: The Clown Academy

    PHOTO FEATURE: The Clown Academy

    Cam and Mac von Oehsen balance plates.

  • PHOTO FEATURE: The Clown Academy

    PHOTO FEATURE: The Clown Academy

    It’s a clown family portrait.

  • PHOTO FEATURE: The Clown Academy

    PHOTO FEATURE: The Clown Academy

    And the clowns take a curtain call.

  • PLAINSBORO: Township committee awards paving contract

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — The days of drivers dodging potholes on George Davison Road are coming to an end.    At its meeting Wednesday night, the township committee awarded an $867,000 contract for the road’s reconstruction and repaving from Cranbury Neck Road to the vicinity of Plainsboro Road.    Construction is scheduled to begin…

  • WEST WINDSOR: New council president lays out goals

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — With the gavel now firmly in his hands, new Council President George Borek has a clear set of goals for the year ahead.    Mr. Borek was elected unanimously to the position by his colleagues at the council’s July 1 reorganization meeting where he replaced Councilman Charlie Morgan…

  • PRINCETON: PRSD superintendent gets 5-year pact

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer   PRINCETON —   Princeton Regional Schools Superintendent Judy Wilson will be paid a $220,480 salary under a new five-year contract ratified by Board of Education members Tuesday.    The new contract puts the leader of one of the state’s top school districts among New Jersey’s highest-paid school administrators.    ”I am delighted to…

  • ROCKY HILL: Council OKs $1 million boro budget

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    ROCKY HILL — The Borough Council has adopted a $1 million budget that will result in a $78 tax hike on the average home.    The budget, approved Monday night, had been introduced in April but its adoption was delayed as the borough waited for its approval by the state, Mayor…

  • WEST WINDSOR: New Trader Joe’s aims for Sept. opening

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer     WEST WINDSOR —Specialty grocer Trader Joe’s is now on track to open its West Windsor store by late summer, said a company spokeswoman.    ”We are scheduled to open, scheduled for an August/September time frame,” for a new store in the Square at West Windsor shopping center off Route 1,…

  • STATE: Republican Christie picks running mate

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    Republican candidate for governor Chris Christie and running mate Kim Guadagno continued a tour of New Jersey after Mr. Christie announced the Monmouth County sheriff as his pick for lieutenant governor Monday.    Mr. Christie and Ms. Guadagno traveled Monmouth County on Wednesday after making stops in Mercer and Camden counties…