Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Borough seeks $150,000 grant to boost jitney service hours

    Borough seeks $150,000 grant to boost jitney service hours

    Since mid-April, the Princeton free B has been providing free public transportation from the Dinky train station to points in Princeton Borough. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Calico Grill outdoor dining dilemma reaches resolution

    Calico Grill outdoor dining dilemma reaches resolution

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Calico Grill owners Alan and Marguerite Heap have been waiting months to utter these simple words: Would you like to sit outside?    The 12-seat outdoor dining area of Calico Grill, down an alley behind Cox’s Market & Catering on Nassau Street, which the Heaps also own and operate, has remained…

  • West Windsor council rejects plan to cancel $25 alarm fee

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — A registration fee of $25 will continue to be charged annually to residents when they file burglar alarm information with the township.    Township Council members chose not to introduce an ordinance revision that would have eliminated that fee Monday. The decision came after township officials and Police…

  • Princeton Township tackles communications ‘dead spot’

    By Katie Wagner / Staff Writer    PRINCETON — The Township Committee has authorized the payment of V-COMM, LLC to conduct more work related to eliminating a “dead spot” in the police department’s communications system.    V-COMM would receive no more than $17,050 to provide the township with recommendations for the type of communications equipment to install…

  • Calico Grill outdoor dining dilemma reaches resolution

    Calico Grill outdoor dining dilemma reaches resolution

    Marguerite Heap, shown here, and her husband Alan own Calico Grill, located behind Cox’s Market. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Council rejects Cleveland Lane resident’s plea to move sidewalk

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Kristina Johnson brought an attorney, a traffic engineer and even a state assemblyman to the Borough Council on Tuesday to promote two alternatives to the borough’s plan to construct a sidewalk in front of her Cleveland Lane home.    Both alternatives involved moving the sidewalk from the north side of 70…

  • Borough seeks $150,000 grant to boost jitney service hours

    Borough seeks $150,000 grant to boost jitney service hours

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Princeton Borough has requested a $150,000 grant in the safe street transit category from the state Department of Transportation to enable it to extend the hours of service offered by the “Princeton free B” jitney service and provide additional funding for its maintenance and operation.    The Princeton free B, which…

  • CUH2A merges with Nebraska health care design firm

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    CUH2A, the large Lawrence-based science and technology architecture and design firm, has announced that it will merge with HDR Architecture, an Omaha, Neb.-based firm specializing in health care design.    The combined firm would have 1,700 employees spread throughout the country as well as in international offices. Each firm complements the…

  • Anne Martindell dies at 93, a pioneering public figure

    Anne Martindell dies at 93, a pioneering public figure

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Anne Clark Martindell, a pioneering New Jersey politician and diplomat who remained active in public affairs and published a memoir, “Never Too Late” last month, died Wednesday. She was 93.    Born in the fabled Plaza Hotel in New York City to railroad heiress Marjory Blair Clark and lawyer William J.…