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By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Despite limited funds for making Princeton Township more bike and pedestrian friendly, two bicycle and walking pathways are in the works.    The township’s Engineering Department has made the most progress with a portion of a Quaker Road path that would ultimately connect Mercer Street in the area of Princeton Friends…

   WEST WINDSOR — The Plainsboro woman injured during last week’s attempted murder-suicide at the MarketFair has been released from Capital Health System’s Helene Fuld campus in Trenton, following a weekend stay at the facility for treatment of wounds sustained during the assault.    Police say Heather Markel, 20, was stabbed multiple times in the head, ribs,…

Crowds fill Witherspoon Street during Communiversity. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

Princeton Township    Stephanie M. Hegyes, 49, of Redding Circle was charged with driving while intoxicated following an accident at Redding Circle about 8 a.m., Saturday. Police said they received a call that a vehicle drove over a curb and into a bush, damaging the bush. After arriving at the scene, police said they confirmed that…

A 46-year-old West Windsor man was found dead inside a private viewing booth at a Bucks County video store, a Pennsylvania newspaper has reported. The Bucks County Courier Times quoted the police chief in Penndel, Pennsylvania as saying that the man was found at Towne Video on Sunday afternoon by a clerk who had opened the…

By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Princeton’s startup community bank is growing according to plan, and avoiding fallout from the economic downturn, even if it is not likely to achieve profitability anytime soon, according to senior executives.    ”Generating income in the year one was never our goal, never our plan, and we succeeded mightily,” said Stephen…

By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Princeton University’s concept site plan application for a new neuroscience and psychology building will be presented to Regional Planning Board of Princeton on Thursday night.    The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Princeton Township Hall.    The facility would be located on the west side of Washington Road, across…

By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    PLAINSBORO — The Plainsboro Village Center has won a 2008 Smart Growth award in the “New Town Center Development” category, officials from NJ Future announced last week.    Even in its current unfinished state, the independent jury judging the submissions for the New Town Center category selected Plainsboro’s centrally located, mixed-use…

By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    A former Princeton University freshman has been charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, endangerment of an injured victim and two counts of making terroristic threats following complaints made to borough police by two students at the university.    The accused, Malik Little, 19, is being held at the Mercer County Correction Center…