Category: news/the_princeton_packet

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…

By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — A split Township Council voted 3-2 Monday to introduce a 2008 municipal budget including 50 percent salary increases for Township Council members.    Overall, the $35.4 million proposal represents a 12 percent increase over last year’s budget, including a 3.4-cent tax increase. That will hand West Windsor homeowners…

By David Walter, Special Writer    Former USA Track & Field CEO Craig Masback holds a sobering view of the current condition of athletics.    ”Sports in our country, and on some level in our world, are in a state of crisis,” Mr. Masback told an audience at Princeton University’s Dodds Auditorium last week.    A varsity runner…

Tom Beatty of Guillespie Electric digs a trench for lighting in front of the Arts Council of Princeton’s new building on Thursday. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

By John Dunphy, The Packet Group    You have just retired after a long and successful career and developed a large cache of experience. Yet, with long, open days now staring you in the face, how can you utilize that knowledge?    What about the Peace Corps? Do you think you’re too old? Try telling that to…

Heng Yu holds her one-year-old son Frank and listens to speeches during the rally. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

Earl T. Kim will become Montgomery School District superintendent on July 15.

By Lea Kahn, The Packet Group    LAWRENCE — Michael Torney, the former president of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity at Rider University, has settled a civil lawsuit filed against him by the parents of a fraternity pledge who died of alcohol poisoning during a fraternity initiation rite in March 2007.    The settlement reached between Mr.…

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…