Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Ousted Princeton school bus provider says bid improperly rejected

    Ousted Princeton school bus provider says bid improperly rejected

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    For the first time in some 20 years, the school buses that carry students back to class in the Princeton Regional School District this week won’t be operated by Conover Transportation of Montgomery. The change, to Rick Bus Co. of Trenton, results from a bidding process that is being disputed…

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

    WW-P projects near completion as classes resume on Thursday

    Construction work in progress last week in front of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Borough sends downtown trash SOS to businesses

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    In an effort to improve garbage cleanup and litter in downtown Princeton, the Princeton Regional Health Department is seeking to engage downtown businesses, landlords and tenants to keep borough streets clean and free of debris.    Recently, merchants began expressing frustration over litter-strewn streets downtown which might tarnish Princeton’s image as…

  • Cupcakes grace shop where bagels once reigned

    Cupcakes grace shop where bagels once reigned

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Is there a food that is universally loved in America? One that evokes fond memories, that we can conjure up the taste of instantly, that we can’t ever recall refusing when offered?    Marcel Proust’s madeleine for an entire society?    Perhaps not, but a cupcake may come as close as any…

  • POLICE BLOTTER, Aug. 29

    Montgomery         A resident on Buckingham Drive reported Tuesday that somebody used her personal information to rent a vehicle from Enterprise Car Rentals, police said. The resident made the discovery when she received a letter from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission reporting that she drove through the EZ Pass lane without paying the toll and was subject…

  • Two Montgomery teens arrested on cocaine charges

    Emily Laermer, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Two township teenagers were arrested Tuesday following a three-month narcotics investigation.    Bryan Cummings, 19, of Andover Circle and a 16-year-old male from Montgomery were both arrested after selling cocaine to an undercover detective earlier this summer, according to the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.    Mr. Cummings sold a quantity of…

  • GlenAcres marks 50-year-old stand for integrated housing

    GlenAcres marks 50-year-old stand for integrated housing

    By Emily Laermer, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Before Martin Luther King Jr. made his “I Have a Dream” speech, before schools in Little Rock, Ark., were forced to integrate and before interracial marriage was legalized in all 50 states, there was GlenAcres, a 20-home development off Alexander Road with a quota.    This quota stated…

  • College drinking age initiative stirs talk about lowering age

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Although presidents of four colleges and universities in Mercer County have not signed the Amethyst Initiative — the petition alleging that the nation’s drinking age has created a culture of dangerous binge drinking on campuses — Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman said changing the drinking age deserves thoughtful consideration.    The…

  • Holdup foiled at Shell gas station in West Windsor

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Two West Windsor residents and a Plainsboro resident were charged with attempted armed robbery after they tried to hold up the Shell gas station on Route 571 early Monday morning, police reported.    Police charged Gregory James Giuliana, 18, of Slayback Drive with first-degree attempted armed robbery. The…