Category: news/the_princeton_packet

By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — The Montgomery Township Board of Education passed a $76,118,769 budget for the 2008-2009 school year Tuesday, just $15,000 larger than the tentative budget adopted Feb. 26.    The budget calls for a 3.97-percent spending increase from the 2007-2008 school budget with a 2.3-percent increase from last year’s school tax…

By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    The two-year effort to clear up outstanding payments on old capital projects between Princeton Borough and Princeton Township will net the borough approximately $1.2 million, according to officials from both towns.    A meeting among both municipalities’ administrators and chief financial officers on Wednesday resulted in an agreement for the township…

By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    The West Windsor-Plainsboro Board of Education has unanimously adopted a $153.5 million school budget, sending the spending plan to voters in the two townships for an April 15 vote.    The budget, approved by the board on Tuesday, represents an overall 4.3-percent increase over last year’s model, although district officials stressed…

By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — Lifetime Montgomery resident Frank Drift made an offer to the Montgomery Township School Board this week he thinks they can’t refuse.    He offered to transform 15-acres of a township-owned tract across from the high school into grass practice fields. All he wants in return, he said, is to…

By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    After railing against the proposed Council on Affordable Housing obligations for being “crazy” and “unachievable,” the Princeton Township Committee decided Monday that it will submit a plan anyway.    The consensus reached among committee members during their meeting comes in the midst of consideration by a number of municipalities to simply…

By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    The fight against large trucks on Route 206 is continuing on more than one front, Princeton Township Committeeman Chad Goerner told his fellow committee members Monday.    The effort includes attempts to get commitment for funding for the implementation of the Route 206 Vision Study as well as participation in a…

Princeton Borough    Bryan Clark, 22, of Hopewell Township was charged with driving while intoxicated at 12:58 a.m. Saturday following a motor vehicle stop on Nassau Street, police said. He was transported to police headquarters, processed and released on his own recognizance.    Brittney Holmes, 20, of Princeton, was charged with misrepresentation of age at 12:58 a.m.…

By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Ronni Arno Blaisdell first heard the stories of women who simultaneously struggled with cancer and trained for a triathlon at the 2004 New York Metro Danskin Triathlon in Sandy Hook.    ”I remember one woman just telling the story about how she found out she had cancer, went though chemotherapy, and…

By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    As promised, the group that opposed the zoning change that could pave the way for a senior housing development on the Princeton Ridge has filed a lawsuit against the Township Committee alleging “spot zoning” and other claims in its effort to preserve the ridge by having the amendments overturned and…