Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Borough police without a community policing unit for six months

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    For the past six months, the Princeton Borough Police Department has continued to operate without a safe neighborhoods unit — a direct result of the suspensions of three officers.    Sgt. Kenneth Riley, Sgt. Kevin Creegan, a Police Benevolent Association member, and Officer William Perez, a PBA 130 vice president, were…

  • A library’s future home emerges in Plainsboro

    A library’s future home emerges in Plainsboro

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — The steel skeleton of what will eventually become Plainsboro’s state-of-the-art public library has begun emerging from a hole in the ground in the township’s village center.    The meaning of that slowly but steadily rising framework is that foundation work on the new library has been completed, and construction…

  • West Windsor presses NJ Transit on redevelopment aims

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Concern over NJ Transit’s commitment to redevelopment reared its head again Thursday at the third in a series of redevelopment stakeholder meetings held by the township.    NJ Transit is considered crucial to plans to redevelop 350 acres around the Princeton Junction train station, with the independent state…

  • POLICE BLOTTER, Aug. 26

    Princeton Borough    Joseph Justice III, 43, of Sewell was charged with driving while intoxicated after his vehicle was stopped on Nassau Street at 10:51 p.m. Friday, police reported.    Gerald Farber, 38, of Hopewell was charged with driving while intoxicated after his vehicle was stopped on Mercer Street at 10:23 p.m. Friday, according to police.    Charles…

  • Three from WW, Plainsboro charged with attempted armed robbery

    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 Giuliani, 18, of Slayback Drive with first-degree attempted armed robbery. The…

  • Foreclosures rise in Mercer; Princeton, West Windsor not immune

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Mercer County’s more affluent communities, including Princeton and West Windsor, have experienced an increase in foreclosure notices during the past year, according to an analysis by The Packet of records filed with the county clerk’s office.    Both towns have seen a tripling of initial notifications of foreclosure proceedings, year over…

  • Anthony R. Vaccaro

    Co-owned sod farm     COLUMBUS — Anthony R. Vaccaro died Saturday at home. He was 88.    Born in Johnstown, Pa., he resided most of his life in Princeton, moving to Columbus in 1996. He was a graduate of Princeton High School.    In 1941, he founded, with two of his brothers, the Indian Camp Poultry Farm.…

  • Princeton aviator flying high at 16

    Princeton aviator flying high at 16

    Ryan Olson, 16, is congratulated by his instructor, Shannon Wea, at Princeton Airport.

  • Presentation reviews preservation of historic Schenck Farm in WW

    Presentation reviews preservation of historic Schenck Farm in WW

    Old farm equipment in front of buildings at the Schenck farmstead, which is slated for restoration. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski