Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Some on WW council seek new stategy following vetoed pay hike

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Township Council members confronted with Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh’s veto of their controversial pay raise ordinance are considering an alternative plan that would give them each a $3,000 a year expense stipend.    The new measure may be considered at a June 9 meeting at which the four council…

  • Arrest made in Montgomery gas station robbery

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — A Hillsborough man was arrested and charged with armed robbery after he held up an attendant at the Shell gas station at Routes 206 and 518 on Monday evening, according to police.    John F. Hughes, 21, pulled a knife on a Shell employee and stole $180, police said.…

  • A simulated DWI death has an authentic impact at Princeton High

    A simulated DWI death has an authentic impact at Princeton High

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Siren after siren sounded as Princeton High School students watched police cars, ambulances and fire trucks approach Walnut Lane from every direction Wednesday morning.    The police, emergency medical technicians and firefighters were responding to a mock two-vehicle, head-on drunk driving collision that left one of the vehicle’s passengers dead and…

  • A simulated DWI death has an authentic impact at Princeton High

    A simulated DWI death has an authentic impact at Princeton High

    Princeton High School students listen to the reading of an obituary of the "victim" of the staged traffic accident. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Synthetic turf fields in the works for Princeton park

    Synthetic turf fields in the works for Princeton park

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    PRINCETON — Synthetic turf will be installed on the 12 acres of athletic fields at Greenway Meadows Park off Rosedale Road if the borough and township agree to contribute their share to a project that Mercer County has agreed to help fund.    The county agreed on April 23 to contribute…

  • Montgomery officials set to fight new COAH rules on two fronts

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Montgomery residents could see their township listed as a plaintiff in two separate lawsuits filed against what township officials see as draconian Council on Affordable Housing rules, set to be adopted Monday.    ”This is just bad public policy,” said Louise Wilson, a Township Committee member.    The regulations themselves…

  • Borough’s efforts on Nassau HKT enter the public arena

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Princeton Borough’s efforts to move forward with Nassau HKT on the second phase of its downtown development project entered the public realm Tuesday night at the Borough Council’s meeting, despite often widely divergent views offered by its members at the meeting about the value of continuing to pursue the long-delayed…

  • West Windsor mayor vetoes council’s salary ordinance

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh today vetoed a controversial salary ordinance that would have handed raises to Township Council members and the mayor himself.    Starting Jan. 1, 2009, council members would have made $7,500 per year instead of their current $4,941, and the mayor would have received $25,000 per…

  • Against immense odds, two PU researchers witness supernova explosion

    Against immense odds, two PU researchers witness supernova explosion

    Phil McAuliffe Alicia Soderberg, standing outside Princeton University’s FitzRandolph Observatory, is one of two Princeton researchers to discover a supernova. The other researcher is her fiancee, Edo Berger. Staff photo by Phil McAuliffe