Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: Center for Leadership Training marks 20th year

    By Lilly LeClair, Special Writer    PRINCETON — The Princeton Center for Leadership Training jointly celebrated its 20th anniversary and the retirement of its founder, Dr. Sharon Rose Powell, with a reception Thursday evening.    The event, held at TPC Jasna Polana, in Princeton, was attended by partners of PCLT, including Hi Tops and Teen PEP, as…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: Princeton, West Windsor, Montgomery, Plainsboro

    Princeton Borough    Rudi Delma, 21, of Leigh Avenue, was arrested for having a $250 warrant out of Princeton Borough after a records search revealed the warrant during a pedestrian stop on Leigh Avenue at 12:40 p.m. April 17, according to police.    Bryce Moller, 30, of LaCosta, Calif., was charged with drunken driving following a traffic…

  • PLAINSBORO: Township mulls shared dispatching for emergencies

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — A feasibility study will be conducted into a possible shared services agreement for emergency services between Plainsboro and three other municipalities, administered by Middlesex County.    At its meeting Wednesday night, the township Committee passed a resolution to accept a state grant that will fund a study of a…

  • PRINCETON: Arrest made in campus sex attacks

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    PRINCETON — A Princeton Borough man has been arrested in connection with a three sex crimes that occurred on the Princeton University campus last weekend.    Jorge Humberto Solares Garcia, 28, of Nassau Street is accused of exposing himself to two students and fondling another in the incidents, which occurred in the morning…

  • PRINCETON: Traffic, parking plans set for Communiversity

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    The 2009 edition of Communiversity is expecting a crowd equal in size to last year’s estimated 35,000 attendees, according to members of the Arts Council of Princeton, one of the organizers of the event.    ”It’s the largest cultural event of the year in Princeton,” said Jeff Nathanson, the executive director…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Mayoral candidate seeks 12.1 percent tax cut

    Mayoral candidate calls for 12.1 cut in WW tax rate Kristine SnodgrassStaff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Council President Charlie Morgan, a candidate for mayor, is calling for a 12.1 percent tax reduction in the township’s 2009 municipal budget through use of surplus funds.    In a statement released this week, he said he cannot support the…

  • PRINCETON: IAS announces new prof, joint research initiative

      PRINCETON — The Institute for Advance Study has announced that former Princeton University physics professor Stanislas Leibler has been appointed to the faculty of its School of Natural Sciences.    The appointment, which was effective April 1, is part of a new joint initiative in quantitative and theoretical biology with Rockefeller, established through a $10 million…

  • PRINCETON: Regional Chamber plans social network drive

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The tourism arm of the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce this week discussed plans to use social networking sites on the Internet to expand the success it has had marketing the Princeton Region to potential visitors.    ”We are going to really start attacking the social marketing arena,”…

  • PRINCETON: Forum Sunday on university tax status

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    This Sunday, Princeton residents can come out to hear the case for Princeton University paying more to their communities so they will pay less.    ”This is about direct tax relief to taxpayers in the borough and township,” not about university pet projects and non-financial contributions, said Sue Nemeth. She is…