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  • Forrestal Village making a comeback amid new optimism

    Forrestal Village making a comeback amid new optimism

    A bulldozer in front of what will be Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Plainsboro’s Forrestal Village. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • A scourge emerges in the undergrowth and Princeton resident does battle

    A scourge emerges in the undergrowth and Princeton resident does battle

    Lynn Cox Scheffey examines a garlic mustard plant near her Russell Road home in Princeton. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Forrestal Village making a comeback amid new optimism

    Forrestal Village making a comeback amid new optimism

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — New tenants and revamped leasing efforts are contributing to the resurgence of Princeton Forrestal Village as a more vibrant shopping center, say township officials, who pointed to the success of some current tenants and the planned opening of additional, high-end tenants.    This latest spurt of activity comes at…

  • Rocky Hill’s mayor lobbies for restoring aid

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    ROCKY HILL — With his constituents facing a potential double-dose of large-scale municipal- and school-tax hikes, Mayor Ed Zimmerman joined more than 100 other mayors in Trenton on May 20 to push for the restoration of state aid to the smaller towns in the state omitted from a budget proposed…

  • A scourge emerges in the undergrowth and Princeton resident does battle

    A scourge emerges in the undergrowth and Princeton resident does battle

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Every year Lynn Cox Scheffey of Princeton looks forward to the blooming flowers in her 3-acre, wooded Winant Road property as a herald of spring.    But simultaneously she dreads seeing another sign of spring — the invasive garlic mustard weed which threatens her flowers and the growth of her oak,…

  • Volunteers inventory WW intersections to assist cyclists, walkers

    Volunteers inventory WW intersections to assist cyclists, walkers

    Members of the West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance survey the curb at the intersection of Penn Lyle Road and Woodmere Way. From left are Scott Belouin, a volunteer, Chris Scherer and Joe Albanese. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • POLICE BLOTTER, May 27

    Princeton Borough    Christopher Lowenstine, 48, of Canal Road, Franklin Township, was charged with driving while intoxicated after his vehicle was stopped on Nassau Street about 12:45 a.m. Friday, police reported. He was later released pending a court date.    Robert Hoehn III, 21, of Audubon Lane, Princeton, was charged with driving while intoxicated after his car…

  • Against immense odds, two PU researchers witness supernova explosion

    Against immense odds, two PU researchers witness supernova explosion

    By Brian No, Special Writer    It was a serendipitous discovery.    Two researchers at Princeton University have witnessed a supernova — a luminescent explosion caused by a dying star — occur in real time for the first time in history, making a breakthrough discovery in the field of astronomy.    Though supernovae have been sighted since the…

  • 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…