Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Arc Mercer takes on Tropic Thunder

    By Greg Forester / Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Arc Mercer may have failed in its attempts to persuade the United Artists theater at MarketFair shopping center to halt the showing of the film “Tropic Thunder” because of the use of language deemed offensive to persons with development disabilities.    But Steven Cook — the…

  • Princeton Boro says township owes it money

    By Lauren Otis / Staff Writer    Since a joint exchange of checks between Princeton Borough and Township officials six weeks ago which partially redressed joint agency capital expenses owed by the municipalities to each other, there has been no further response from the township on additional money the borough is owed, a borough official said.…

  • West Windsor teen in national science finals

    By Emily Laermer / Staff Writer    Why is the sky blue?    Peter Ku, an incoming freshman at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, can answer that question.    ”Light is composed of all colors in the spectrum,” he said. “The nitrogen particles scatter the shorter wavelengths, like blues and violets.”    Peter’s video explanation of this theory, based…

  • Montgomery mayor challenges affordable housing report

    By Greg Forester / Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Township Mayor Cecilia Birge is taking issue with a report that casts Montgomery and 33 other towns resisting the state’s new affordable housing rules as being among the state’s richest and least diverse.    Charging that the report, put out by the Fair Share Housing Center “completely misses…

  • West Windsor-Plainsboro avoids damages in suit

    By Greg Forester / Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The Board of Education won’t have to pay $1.5 million to a former student who said she developed an eating disorder and other physical problems because of abuse from her basketball coach.    Last week, a state appeals court upheld a judge’s decision to strip the award…

  • Midday shuttle pitched as boon to Princeton seniors

    By Lauren Otis / Staff Writer    Borough Council members urged the director of the Princeton Senior Resource Center, and others in the Princeton community, to offer their thoughts on how the FreeB shuttle can be better utilized, at their meeting on Tuesday evening.    While presenting the PSRC annual report before council, Director Susan Hoskins offered…

  • Developer decries West Windsor ‘delay’ on project

    By Greg Forester / Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — InterCap Holdings Chairman Steve Goldin has accused Township Council members of plotting to “delay or outright kill redevelopment” through a plan to slash the number of homes on his company’s property, as called for in redevelopment planning.    In a letter sent to the township on Wednesday,…

  • WW-P projects near completion as classes resume on Thursday

    WW-P projects near completion as classes resume on Thursday

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — The end is in sight as far as construction at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South is concerned, as students and staff prepare to kick off the 2008-2009 school year on Thursday.    The hope of West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District officials is that the end of 2008 will…

  • Holt heavily favored in 12th Congressional District race

    Holt heavily favored in 12th Congressional District race

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District sprawls across the central portion of the state, from the Jersey shore to the Delaware River, encompassing suburban, urban and rural areas.    It is a disparate district — incorporating wealthy municipalities like Princeton, West Windsor, Plainsboro and Lawrence, as well as poor districts of Trenton…