Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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Local flavor will be important feature of Momos’ Eno Terra
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer KINGSTON This sleepy colonial wayfaring stop is soon to gain a new identity: as a wine and food mecca. After a year-long $3 million basement-to-rooftop renovation and expansion, Eno Terra the most ambitious restaurant venture yet for Terra Momo Restaurant Group owners Raoul and Carlo Momo has…
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Area schools OK with new state standards
By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer Officials of the Princeton, Montgomery and West Windsor-Plainsboro school districts are confident that higher state standards in fifth- through eighth-grade math and language arts literacy will not dramatically impact the percentages of their students classified as partially proficient, proficient and advanced proficient. At its July 16 meeting, the state Board…
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Candidates: Fiscal issues are key to Montgomery’s future
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — The development of Skillman Village and future fiscal decision-making remain some of the most important issues currently facing the township, according to the two major-party candidates squaring off for a seat on the Township Committee in November’s election. Both candidates are relative political newcomers this year, with longtime…
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Man dies on West Windsor tracks
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR A 28-year-old South River man was killed when he was struck by a Northeast Corridor train just west of the Princeton Junction train station in the early morning hours on Sunday, in what township police are calling a suicide. Kevin Greim was killed at around 1:15 a.m.…
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Princeton Future proposes a community partnership
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Directors of the council of Princeton Future voted on Sept. 9 to go ahead with a plan to propose what they call a “Princeton Partnership,” a task force whereby all stakeholders in the Princetons could jointly explore mutually beneficial solutions to some of the communities’ ongoing problems. Transit, parking, taxation…
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Police sergeant indicted
Charges stem from internal police probe By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer Princeton Borough Police Sgt. Kenneth Riley was indicted on six felony charges for allegedly accessing his department’s video record database without authorization and showing other officers what he saw in order to adversely affect another officer’s standing, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office announced in…
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Police on hunt for beer bottle attacker
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY Township police and detectives from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office are on the hunt for a Montgomery man who disemboweled his roommate with a beer bottle following a dispute at a Camp Meeting Road residence Sunday evening. Following a heated argument, Nicolas Ortiz Espinoza, 40, stabbed roommate Artemio…
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Sept. 11 remembered in West Windsor
By Greg Forester / Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — A crowd of over 100 students, residents, and officials gathered at Mercer County Community College on Thursday to remember the Sept. 11 attacks that killed dozens of Mercer County residents and thousands of Americans seven years earlier. Chris Smith, a Mercer County Fire Academy instructor and…
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Controversy clouds airing of West Windsor development plan
By Greg Forester / Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — A capacity crowd of more than 100 residents heard consultants Monday review a redevelopment plan put together by InterCap Holdings Chairman Steve Goldin, who is now claiming that his company’s continued participation in the project is being threatened by politics. Mr. Goldin, who owns 25 prime…
