Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • PRINCETON: Work resumes on downtown project

    PRINCETON: Work resumes on downtown project

    A worker clears markings at the former Tulane Street surface parking lot as work resumes on the redevelopment project there./Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • PLAINSBORO: Police Blotter

    Plainsboro    Charles Gardner, 25, of Lawrenceville, was charged with possession of marijuana under 50 grams and drug paraphernalia after a motor vehicle stop Dec. 8 on northbound Route 1 at College Road East. Police stopped his 1998 Hyundai Elantra for failure to signal a turn and an unsafe lane change, and the car was searched…

  • PRINCETON: County exec recovering from heart attack

    By Greg Forester / Staff Writer    Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes is recovering at the University Medical Center at Princeton following emergency surgery after suffering a heart attack on Sunday.    The Princeton Township resident, who has served as county executive since 2003, was in good spirits Monday, saying he felt well and that he believed…

  • EDITORS’ NOTICE: Website changes

    TO OUR ONLINE USERS: Our website now has a new web address: www.centraljersey.com and this is just the first step in a series of site improvements designed to give Central New Jersey its best web address for truly local news, advertising and community information and interactivity. There are more changes to come and we thank…

  • PRINCETON: Police Blotter

    Princeton Township    Wikendy Geffrard, 32, of Morrisville, Pa., was arrested for having a $253 warrant out of Trenton following a traffic stop on Washington Road at 7:38 a.m. Thursday, police said. The arresting officer stopped Mr. Geffrard after seeing an expired inspection sticker on the vehicle car.    Leonardo Ramos, 43, of Trenton, was arrested for…

  • PRINCETON: Work resumes on downtown project

    PRINCETON: Work resumes on downtown project

    PRINCETON: Developer NHKT has resumed work on the second phase of the downtown redevelopment project in the Spring and Tulane Street area of the borough after a lengthy delay.

  • PRINCETON: Lempert elected to fill township vacancy

    By Lauren Otis / Staff Writer Liz Lempert, a township resident who was co-chairwoman of the Mercer County for Obama campaign organization, was elected Monday night to fill the Princeton Township Committee vacancy created by the retirement of Mayor Phyllis Marchand. The Princeton Township Municipal Democratic Committee, chaired by Dan Preston, presented Township Committee with…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Police Blotter

    West Windsor    A resident of Freehold reported the theft of an iPhone on Dec. 8 from the mailroom of an office in the Carnegie Center. The victim placed the phone, valued at $500, on the counter while she made photocopies, and when she returned, it was missing.    A burglary to a Line Road residence was…

  • PRINCETON: Speer Library plan reviewed

    By Greg Forester / Staff Writer    No official decision has been made on a Princeton Theological Seminary plan to demolish Speer Library, but a review session held Thursday seemed to open the door for the seminary to move forward with its plans, according to multiple observers.    The Princeton Regional Planning Board review — preliminary in…