Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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Preparation work begins for Grovers Mill Pond dredging
The spillway at Grovers Mill Pond Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
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Historical Society of Princeton gets stream waiver
By Katie Wagner / Staff Writer The Regional Planning Board of Princeton on Thursday night unanimously granted a waiver to the Historical Society of Princeton for the encroachment of a stream corridor that the Historical Society needed to implement its minor site plan for its Updike Farm facility on Quaker Road. The Princeton Township Historic…
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Time for an accounting of borough’s Nassau HKT project?
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer Is it time for a public accounting of the current status of negotiations between Princeton Borough and developer Nassau HKT over Phase 2 of the Tulane Street construction project? At least one borough resident believes it is, and has urged the Borough Council to supply numbers and an update on…
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Preparation work begins for Grovers Mill Pond dredging
Grovers Mill Pond as seen from the dock in Van Nest Park. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
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Journalists of note talk baseball at university
By David Walter, Special Writer Through the good times and the bad — and there have been plenty of both — baseball has held a favored position in the hearts of American writers. Three prominent journalists came to Princeton University Wednesday afternoon to explain why. ”No sport has captured the American writer’s imagination as much…
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jaZams toy store crosses the street in Princeton
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer This summer jaZams will have a new face on Palmer Square, and owner Joanne Farrugia will again be a familiar face at the downtown Princeton toy store. Since the birth of her son, Felix, 13 months ago, Ms. Farrugia said she has had to work mostly out of jaZams’ Pennington…
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New Princeton University architect named
Ron McCoy, a Princeton University Graduate School alumnus who has worked for the past 27 years as an architect and educator, has been selected as the new Princeton University architect. The current university architect at Arizona State University and professor in its School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, he will succeed Jon Hlafter, who retired…
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Honored by Princeton University award, activist urges involvement
By Sarah Vitali, Special Writer Even amidst the horrors of genocide in troubled regions such as Darfur, one individual can make a difference through personal and political activism, humanitarian John Prendergast told a Princeton University audience recently. In acknowledgment of his lifelong dedication to ending genocide, Mr. Prendergast was selected to receive the prestigious Crystal…
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Car-sharing service debuts at Princeton Junction train station
A Volkswagen Rabbit awaits a Zipcar customer at the Princeton Junction train station. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
