Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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KINGSTON: Tuscan wares store relocates
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer KINGSTON — If all goes according to plan, by the end of the week Princeton-area residents will have a better view when in Tuscan Hills. There is no geographic magic involved, however. Tuscan Hills, the retail store specializing in artisan-made furniture and home accessories from Tuscany and other regions of…
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PRINCETON: Campus volunteers to aid fire departments
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Princeton is about to make a great leap forward in fire protection. No, fire codes haven’t been tightened and no expensive new equipment is involved. Instead, following official sanction by elected officials, Princeton’s all-volunteer fire-fighting force will soon be effectively doubled during the daytime with the inauguration of a new…
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PRINCETON: Boro cop accused of drinking with teens
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Patrolman Garrett Brown with the Princeton Borough Police Department has been assigned to restricted duty and is facing administrative charges after a hearing on allegations that he provided alcohol to minors and drank with them at a residence in upstate New York in October 2007. ”He has been assigned to…
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SCHOOL BUDGETS HEARINGS: Princeton, West Windsor-Plainsboro, Montgomery
Three area school boards are scheduled to hold public hearings Tuesday before the vote to adopt their 2009-10 budgets. The Princeton Regional Board of Education will hold a budget hearing and adoption vote at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the John Witherspoon Middle School. Last week, the board unanimously approved a $74.1 million preliminary budget. It…
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PRINCETON: Officials hear Millstone Watershed assessment
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer Jim Waltman, executive director of the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association, presented an environmental assessment of Princeton’s two municipalities to the Princeton Township Committee this week. The document provides officials with a blueprint of projects, ordinances and other measures to help the community preserve natural resources even as it pursues development…
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PRINCETON: Municipalities receive school budget
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer Superintendent Judy Wilson pitched a 2009-2010 Princeton Regional Schools budget that will mean a $269 tax increase for average Princeton Borough homeowners and a more modest $29 increase for their counterparts in Princeton Township to local municipal officials Monday. Speaking to a joint session of the Princeton Township Committee and…
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PRINCETON: Campus carts cleared to use town roads
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer An ordinance amendment that will make certain low-speed electric vehicles legal for use on some township roads, once Princeton University buys the vehicles and begins using them for campus maintenance work, won the support of the Princeton Township Committee. The university plans on purchasing four to six of the vehicles…
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PRINCETON: Municipalities agree on joint agency cuts
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Princeton Borough Council and Township Committee agreed to cut the operating budgets of the agencies they jointly oversee by 5 percent at a meeting Tuesday night. At the joint municipal meeting, the governing bodies also agreed to go forward with a study of the mission, services and operations of the…
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MONTGOMERY: Hearing on cluster housing postponed
By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — A crowd of residents was stymied in its attempt to speak out at the Planning Board meeting Monday night against a proposed cluster development they say will damage the environment. The proposed 54 house development, consisting of 3,000- to 4,000-square-foot houses on half-acre or smaller lots, would be…
