Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Economy producing mixed results at state’s animal shelters

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    A sliding economy may have hit area residents but the impact on their pets has been less pronounced, as local animal shelters reported mixed experiences regarding increased donations, and fewer adoptions, by strapped families who can no longer afford to keep pets.    Although for some reason kitten adoptions are slow,…

  • University hosts program to enhance high school science teaching

    University hosts program to enhance high school science teaching

    By Lisa Merolla, Staff Writer    One Montgomery High School teacher will spend the summer looking at a question that has long challenged educators: How exactly do students learn?    Physics teacher Brian Mayer is participating in a Princeton University program that will allow him to explore the field of science education. After observing high school students…

  • School’s out, but Lost and Found is still in session

    School’s out, but Lost and Found is still in session

    Moira Mittnacht and her son Roger at The Nearly New Shop in Princeton with clothing items left at school by area students. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • University mulls lawsuit against Gehry building subcontractors

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Princeton University may take legal action against subcontractors that have pleaded guilty to charges regarding their work on the Peter B. Lewis Library.    In May, a federal prosecutor in Trenton informed the university that a principal owner of Macedo Construction had entered guilty pleas in connection with the library’s construction,…

  • Plainsboro Police Chief Bondurant plans October retirement

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — Police Chief Elizabeth Bondurant has informed township officials that she intends to retire from the police force when she becomes eligible for retirement at the beginning of October, at the completion of a full quarter-century of public service.    The 25-year veteran and Mercer County Community College law enforcement…

  • Towns eye state aid in NJ’s $32.9 billion budget

    By Packet Staff    With Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s signature on a final $32.9 billion state budget, area municipalities learned definitively what their level of state aid would be.    Most received incrementally more Consolidated Municipal Property Tax Relief Aid or CMPTRA than originally allocated, but still significantly less than allocated in 2007, according to figures released…

  • Community Without Walls’ social network aims to keep seniors independent

    By Lisa Merolla, Staff Writer    A group of Princeton-area senior citizens are working together to find new friends, learn new things, and most importantly, create a network of support that allows them to live where they choose.    ”Our mission was really to help one another age well in place,” said Harriet Bogdonoff, one of the…

  • Community Without Walls: One member’s story

    Community Without Walls: One member’s story

    By Lisa Merolla, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Janet Howe may have turned 75 this Independence Day, but she is certainly not ready to slow down. She continues to travel around the world, audit classes at Princeton University and catch as many Yankees games as possible.    Still healthy and independent, Ms. Howe is determined to remain…

  • Downtown Phase 2 construction to cost 90 parking slots

    Downtown Phase 2 construction to cost 90 parking slots

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    The construction staging plan for the long delayed second phase of the downtown redevelopment project at the Tulane Street parking lot — with work to begin next week — has prompted expressions of concern over pedestrian safety and parking by Princeton Borough Council members and a complaint about inadequate communication…