Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Bank of Princeton reports it is growing according to plan

    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…

  • PU to present plans for new Washington Road building Thursday

    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…

  • Plainsboro Village Center wins 2008 ‘Smart Growth’ award

    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…

  • Former PU student faces kidnapping, other charges

    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…

  • Festivity-filled streets mark Princeton’s Communiversity

    Festivity-filled streets mark Princeton’s Communiversity

    The Raks Odalisque belly dancers from Princeton University perform on stage at Communiversity. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Both Princeton municipalities get more time for tax revaluation

       PRINCETON —The Princeton Township Committee and the Princeton Borough Council will be receiving a one-year extension on the revaluation of all properties in both municipalities.    The Mercer County Board of Taxation ordered the revaluation in both town in 2006.    Both municipalities’ properties most recently were revalued in 1996 and are assessed at less than 50…

  • A bankless safe deposit solution is offered in Plainsboro

    A bankless safe deposit solution is offered in Plainsboro

    The four employees of the newly opened Charter Private Safe Deposit Co. are from left, E-Ping Nie, Matt Winn, President and CEO Jim Medalia and Marie Ganz.

  • Montgomery modifies its new cell tower ordinance

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — The Montgomery Township Committee voted last week to include additional language in an updated cell phone tower ordinance, after hearing community concerns about the measure during the revised ordinance’s adoption in March.    The additional language means that following the construction of a cell-phone antenna-bearing tower, no modification will…

  • POLICE BLOTTER, April 25

    Princeton Borough    Michael Atkinson, 39, of Ringoes was arrested on a contempt warrant out of Montgomery Township Municipal Court for $295 following a motor vehicle stop on Nassau Street about 12:35 a.m. Monday, police reported. He was later released on bail.    Jonathan Fierabend, 24, of Merovan Avenue, Hamilton, was arrested on an active warrant out…