Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • MONTGOMERY: Budget cap increase approved

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — The Montgomery Township Committee has approved an ordinance to increase its budget cap to 3.5 percent in order to avoid what its administrator said would be “draconian” budget cuts.    According to the ordinance, approved Thursday, state law requires that a municipality must limit any increase in its budget…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: Princeton, W.Windsor, Montgomery, Plainsboro

    Princeton Borough    Evan Liam Callahan, 20, of West Windsor, and Kaleanna Esquerra, 19, of Tupelo Row, were arrested for possession of marijuana and possession of alcoholic beverages by minors following a traffic stop on Paul Robeson Place at 6 p.m. on Feb. 7, police said. Mr. Callahan was also arrested for having a $283 warrant…

  • PLAINSBORO: PD adopting new patrol performance plan

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer     PLAINSBORO — The Plainsboro Township Police Department is instituting a new method of evaluating its officers’ productivity, under a system that is said not to create a ticket quota.     Chief Richard Furda said officers in the department took a seminar to learn about a new system to track…

  • PRINCETON: Boro Mayor Trotman says she may not run in 2011

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    Princeton Borough Mayor Mildred Trotman told a Saturday symposium at Princeton University that she doesn’t foresee running for office again.    Mayor Trotman, who joined other current and former black mayors in a discussion titled “From the Middle Passage to the Oval Office: Defining the Black Experience,” was re-elected in 2007…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Schoo board aims for 1.6 percent budget growth

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education is now targeting a 1.6 percent increase in its 2009-10 budget, more than a percentage point lower than its previous estimate.    District Superintendent Victoria Kniewel attributed the low figure to hard work and examining each expenditure in order to prioritize district…

  • PRINCETON: Anxiety grows over library funding bill

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    Legislation that would cut minimum funding requirements for municipal libraries in half as a way of providing local officials with more flexibility during budget season will be met with strong opposition from local library advocates.    The bill, introduced earlier this month by Assemblyman Vincent Prieto, D-Bergen, would revise state law…

  • Choosing a Summer Camp

    Parents should do some investigating before entering kids into a program Packet Publications WHEN your kids have graduated the local Day Care, Rec. Program, or "Camp Mom," and you’re looking for the next logical step in giving a wonderful growth experience away from gameboys, the internet and TV — CAMP is the answer! Every summer…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Two infrastructure wish lists emerge

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The process of developing West Windsor’s list of needed infrastructure improvements in order to request appropriations funding was on divergent paths this week.    Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh and the administration are in the process of gathering a list of projects to submit to Rep. Rush Holt’s office Monday…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: Princeton, West Windsor, Plainsboro

    Princeton Borough    Jason Orders, 32, of Somerset, was arrested for having a $275 warrant out of Franklin during a traffic stop on Stockton Street at 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 6, police said.    Eric Anderson, 37, of Cranbury, was arrested at the University Medical Center at Princeton for a probation violation at 6 p.m. on Feb.…