Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • WEST WINDSOR: Conflicted council makes no progress on redevelopment plan at Thursday session

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer     Progress on redevelopment of the train station area was stymied by indecision Thursday night as Township Council found itself again conflicted on the scale of the project.    The council held a workshop Thursday night to discuss revisions to the draft redevelopment plan by the RMJM Hillier architectural firm. After…

  • MONTGOMERY: Dyer clinches Township Committee race following provisional ballot count

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    With the provisional ballot count completed today by the Somerset County Board of Elections, Republican Kacey Dyer has clinched her seat on the Township Committee.    The results leave her opponent, Keith Hovey, short by about 200 votes in a race that Ms. Dyer termed a “referendum on Skillman Village.”    Mr.…

  • PRINCETON: House and garden tour takes to the green side

    PRINCETON: House and garden tour takes to the green side

    Curtis Helm, left, designer of the RainGarden near the Princeton Senior Resource Center, talks with Michael August, center, of Parsippany and Emile Schoffelen of Princeton during the tour. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Economy slows Forrestal research park project

    By Sean Ruppert, The Packet Group    Plans for a science research park on Route 1 in South Brunswick are moving forward despite being somewhat slowed by the sagging economy.    Princeton Forrestal, the real estate development arm of Princeton University, owns the 90-acre lot slated for the private research campus. The site is to be developed…

  • PRINCETON: House and garden tour takes to the green side

    PRINCETON: House and garden tour takes to the green side

    Bill Moran, right, customer service manager at Whole Earth center, a stop on the Green Home Garden Tour, speaks with Tatiana Kennedy of Princeton. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • PRINCETON: House and garden tour takes to the green side

    PRINCETON: House and garden tour takes to the green side

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    The second annual Green Home and Garden Tour on Saturday, organized by the Princeton Environmental Commission, provided tour-goers with visual evidence of the many ways they can pursue green and sustainable living.    Featuring a total of nine stops — three commercial buildings, two gardens, four homes — the tour went…

  • PRINCETON AREA: School superintendents get credentials check-up

    By Christine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    In an effort to confirm the qualifications of superintendents statewide, the New Jersey Association of School Administrators has requested its members to provide communities with their complete educational backgrounds.    ”By doing so, we will reassure school districts throughout New Jersey that their respective Chief Education Officer is fully qualified to…

  • PRINCETON: Considering the post-Marchand era

    PRINCETON: Considering the post-Marchand era

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Princeton Township Mayor Phyllis Marchand is likely to be an active presence in township affairs once she steps down as mayor on Nov. 30, although the political landscape in the municipality is certain to shift, according to several area political observers.    ”Once you’re a mayor in this town, you are…

  • PRINCETON: University says Campus Plan won’t add to traffic and planners seem to agree

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    The Princeton Regional Planning Board has given preliminary approval to a university plan designed to mitigate traffic increases associated with the future development of the university campus.    The scheme, which was the subject of a Thursday night Planning Board presentation, is designed to address traffic related in part to the…