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  • Cooking fire damages Montgomery apartment

    Cooking fire damages Montgomery apartment

    Firefighters work to put out a blaze at the Princeton Hill Apartment complex in Montgomery on Monday. Photo by Simon Laufer

  • Entrepreneurial researchers display their wares at university

    Entrepreneurial researchers display their wares at university

    By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer    A device that will improve cancer treatment and cost. A green energy system generating electricity from sunlight and water. A molecular solution to antibiotic resistance. These ideas and more were presented to the public at the third annual Princeton — Jumpstart Innovation Forum, held at the Friend Center on Wednesday…

  • Montgomery Mayor Birge enters Somerset freeholder race

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Montgomery Mayor Cecilia Birge said she will not complete the final year of her three-year term on the Township Committee if she’s elected to the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders in November.    Last week Mayor Birge received the nomination to run for one of the two three-year…

  • Deal reached on subsidized parking at Princeton Public Library

    Deal reached on subsidized parking at Princeton Public Library

    The Princeton Public Library will soon resume offering two free hours of parking to patrons under a new agreement between township and borough. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Cooking fire damages Montgomery apartment

    Cooking fire damages Montgomery apartment

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — A cooking fire Monday afternoon at the Princeton Hill Apartment complex on Blue Spring Road left four units uninhabitable.    Flames were coming from four windows of a first-floor apartment in one of the complex’s buildings when firefighters arrived at the scene, according to Gene Keller, deputy chief of…

  • Married by the mayor and $100 poorer

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh’s duties in performing marriage ceremonies is set to receive some official legislative updating.    Township Council introduced an ordinance Monday outlining the financial procedures for people getting married by West Windsor’s executive.    Couples wishing to get married at the Municipal Building will have to pay…

  • Steve Forbes offers his economic Rx during talk at university

    Steve Forbes offers his economic Rx during talk at university

    Steve Forbes at Princeton University on Wednesday. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • POLICE BLOTTER, April 11

    Princeton Borough    Michael Gyampo, 19, of Green Street was charged with driving while intoxicated and possession of marijuana following a motor vehicle stop on University Place about 1:36 a.m. Monday.    James H. Lucas, 54, of Jamesburg was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, under 50 grams of marijuana, following a motor vehicle stop…

  • Proposal to cut tax rate by penny with surplus disputed in WW

    By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Significant disagreement exists among township officials over the possible use of additional municipal surplus funds to reduce a potential 3.57-cent tax increase faced by township residents.    The proposal calls for a reduction of the tax increase by one cent, resulting in around $45 worth of savings for…