Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Edward F. Carroll

    Former Packet editor     CLINTON TOWNSHIP — Edward F. Carroll died May 18 at Hunterdon Medical Center, Raritan Township.    Born in Lansdowne, Pa., he lived in the Annandale section of Clinton Township for the past eight years and previously was a resident of Baptisttown.    In a long career in community journalism that spanned three states,…

  • Fire company offers view on new Rocky Hill fire truck

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    ROCKY HILL — Members of the Rocky Hill Hook and Ladder Co. made their recommendation to Borough Council on Monday about which bid to select in the borough’s pursuit of a new fire truck.    The bid from Pierce Manufacturing is the favored plan, according to borough officials, who said they…

  • Janitor pleads guilty to sex assault at the Hun School

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    An undocumented immigrant who had been working at The Hun School of Princeton has pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree sexual assault for having sex with a female student younger than 16 — New Jersey’s legal age for consensual sex.    Erickson Isai Pretzintzin-Suchi agreed to a five-year prison sentence…

  • Major gift supports 20-mile trail in Hopewell Township, Lawrence
  • Princeton school board, teachers agree on 3-year contract

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Princeton Regional School Board members ratified a three-year contract for the school district’s teachers at their school board meeting Tuesday.    Under the contract, which will be effective July 1, teachers’ salaries would increase by 4.6 percent for the next two school years and by 4.5 percent for the third year.…

  • ‘Dispensa’ set to become the new cafe at Princeton Public Library

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Terra Momo has signed a lease contract to serve food at the Princeton Public Library’s café, replacing the café’s current vendor, Chez Alice, the library’s director said during the Library Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday.    Library Director Leslie Burger added that Terra Momo should begin selling food at the café…

  • Fire heavily damages West Windsor house

    Fire heavily damages West Windsor house

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — A firefighter from East Windsor and West Windsor’s emergency services director received medical treatment for injuries sustained in a fire that seriously damaged a West Windsor home off of Southfield Road Monday evening, police said.    Emergency Services Director Jim Yates and the fireman, Christopher Hoffman, were taken…

  • SPECIAL REPORT: Princeton’s Town-Gown Equation, Part 2: Other local institutions contribute, too

    SPECIAL REPORT: Princeton’s Town-Gown Equation, Part 2: Other local institutions contribute, too

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Princeton University is certainly the largest and most prominent private nonprofit institution of higher learning and research which makes tax and payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) contributions to Princeton Borough and Princeton Township but it is not the only well-endowed academic institution that does so.    Princeton Theological Seminary makes…

  • SPECIAL REPORT: Princeton’s Town-Gown Equation, Part 2: Other local institutions contribute, too

    SPECIAL REPORT: Princeton’s Town-Gown Equation, Part 2: Other local institutions contribute, too

    Fuld Hall is at the center of the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. The institute contributes to local municipalities by making payments in lieu of taxes. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski