Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • New Arts Council of Princeton building to open June 5

    New Arts Council of Princeton building to open June 5

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    The Arts Council of Princeton has announced June 5 as the long awaited opening date for its new arts building on Witherspoon Street.    The expanded Paul Robeson Center for the Arts was designed by acclaimed architect and Princeton resident Michael Graves.    The building’s expansion includes an increase in size from…

  • Calico parking issue hits Borough Council’s radar screen

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    Princeton Borough Council has been briefed on a parking problem which has hobbled the downtown restaurant Calico Grill, and placed its owners Alan and Marguerite Heap at odds with the borough administration, although no prompt solution to the problem seems likely.    At the closed portion of Borough Council’s meeting on…

  • Footrace to affect traffic to Montgomery churches Sunday morning

       MONTGOMERY — A footrace on Sunday is expected to affect traffic in the Burnt Hill and Sunset road areas, particularly for those attending church, according to the Montgomery Township Police Department.    The Run With Rotary race will require Burnt Hill Road to be closed between Skillman Road and Sunset Road beginning at 9 a.m. Sunset…

  • Curbside confusion clouds road work on Cleveland Lane

    Curbside confusion clouds road work on Cleveland Lane

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    As a major road repair project gets under way on Cleveland Lane, about 10 residents of the street voiced their preference for granite curbing at Tuesday’s Borough Council meeting.    Two of those residents spoke on behalf of their neighborhood during the meeting. They requested the council renegotiate a $1.3 million…

  • Police cite gang ties for three men arrested after campus fight

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    PRINCETON — Three men who police say appear to have gang ties were arrested following a fight at Princeton University’s Wilcox Hall early Saturday morning.    A 19-year-old female university student rejected sexual advances from one of the three dance-party crashers, and that led to the assaults, police said.    The violence…

  • China Olympics controversy raises its torch in Princeton

    China Olympics controversy raises its torch in Princeton

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Lobsong Choephel, a New Yorker who was born and raised in Tibet, said he remembered as a child wondering what relationship a man living in his home that always carried a gun had to his parents.    He later learned the armed man had been a soldier for the Chinese Communist…

  • China Olympics controversy raises its torch in Princeton

    China Olympics controversy raises its torch in Princeton

    A Chinese student from Princeton University raises his country’s flag in response to the human rights protest at Borough Hall. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • PHS students take plea for more study of global issues to board

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Princeton High School students told Princeton Regional school board members and administrators Tuesday that more classroom discussions of global issues are necessary, claiming that increasing these opportunities would better prepare them for life after high school. The response they received left them disappointed, however.    A group of five students attended…

  • Princeton school board elects Hegedus president

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    The Princeton Regional Board of Education elected Alan Hegedus to serve as its president and Rebecca Cox as vice president at its April 23 meeting.    Mr. Hegedus of Princeton Borough, who served as vice president for the last two years, is a longtime member of the board. He is currently…