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  • POLICE BLOTTER, Nov. 4

    Princeton Borough     Princeton University’s Department of Public Safety issued a campus safety alert Saturday after Wei Ho, a class of 2009 computer science concentrator, was reported missing.    He was last seen on campus at 4:30 a.m. Friday. The public safety alert stated that “there is a concern for Wei Ho’s welfare.”    He was last seen…

  • Theft spree targets Jeeps in WW’s train station area

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    A 2006 Jeep was stolen and another was broken into Friday at the Princeton Junction train station, while a third was recovered by police Saturday morning.    And yet another Jeep was reported broken into about a mile away, in the parking lot of Mathematica Policy Research, 600 Alexander Park.    The…

  • Helene Cody of Princeton High is honored at cross country race

    Helene Cody of Princeton High is honored at cross country race

    Runners from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North and South girls’ cross country teams compete at Friday’s Mercer County championship meet at Washington Crossing State Park. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Helene Cody of Princeton High is honored at cross country race

    Helene Cody of Princeton High is honored at cross country race

    Many fans at the meet wore T-shirts paying tribute to Princeton High School runner Helene Cody, who died last week. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Princeton chef’s tale of threats is a potboiler

    Princeton chef’s tale of threats is a potboiler

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    A former Triumph Brewing Co. chef has been charged with aggravated harassment by Sag Harbor, N.Y., police in connection with a series of threatening phone calls he allegedly made to another chef at one of Princeton’s newest restaurants, in what appears to be a case of chef-on-chef crime.    Thomas P.…

  • Princeton chef’s tale of threats is a potboiler

    Princeton chef’s tale of threats is a potboiler

    Sag Harbor, N.Y., police said that a dozen threatening phone calls were made to Julio Quisbert, executive chef at Princeton’s new JL Ivy restaurant. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • WW council in high gear as it works on redevelopment plan

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Township Council is continuing to work through possible modifications of its draft plan for the redevelopment of the train station area with the hope of getting a new version from its planning consultant by early December.    Council members met in a work session Friday morning to…

  • Gas card denial at station leads to a demolition derby

    By Kristine Snodgrass, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — A Plainsboro woman hit two people with her car and led police on a slow-speed chase after a gas station attendant told her that her credit card had been denied, police said.    The incident began just before 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Valero gas station, at Route…

  • Princeton High student Helene Cody remembered

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, The Packet Group    CRANBURY — On the eve of her 16th birthday, surrounded by her family, Helene Cody lay sedated in a hospital bed in the pediatric ward of the St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, about to bestow the only gift she had left to give to the world.…