Category: news/the_princeton_packet

  • Princeton Regional adopts $72.7 million school budget

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    The Princeton Regional Board of Education has unanimously approved a 2008-2009 district operating budget of $72,694,856 that will impose a 3.32 percent tax increase — below the four percent cap, for the first time in years.    In all, district taxpayers will be asked to cover $56,965,650 of the budget. The…

  • Corzine plan to eliminate state agriculture department decried

    By Maria Prato-Gaines, The Packet Group    Gov. Jon Corzine has proposed eliminating the state Department of Agriculture as part of his 2008-2009 fiscal year budget, bringing objections from area farmers as well as officials.    The Montgomery Township Committee stated its opposition to abolishing the department and voiced support for funding of the department’s essential programs…

  • Princeton political races approach busy season

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    Though the June primary is still months away, the coming days promise to be busy for the Princeton Democratic organizations making endorsements and nominations for seats on both Borough Council and Township Committee.    No Republican candidates have yet announced plans to run in either municipality, but at least one new…

  • Whole Earth Center expansion keeps faith with green principles

    Whole Earth Center expansion keeps faith with green principles

    Walter Rutkowski, left, and Wayne Pietrini of Baxter Construction assemble steel shelving in the new section of the Whole Earth Center last week. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Chinese scholar to speak on U.S.-China relations at PU on Monday

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    Qin Yaqing, a Chinese scholar of international affairs, will speak on U.S.-Chinese relations at Princeton University’s Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall at 4:30 p.m. Monday.    He is executive vice president and a professor of international studies at China Foreign Affairs University and a member of the central committee of the Chinese…

  • POLICE BLOTTER, March 21

    Montgomery    Somerset County crews will be repairing the bridge on Grandview Road near Hollow Road from Monday, March 31 through April 4. That portion of Grandview Road will be closed to traffic and motorists will be detoured using Fairview Road and Camp Meeting Avenue.    A report of a disabled vehicle led to the arrest of…

  • Princeton High students protest war in Iraq

    Princeton High students protest war in Iraq

    By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    More than 100 Princeton High School students huddled around a platform in front of the school Wednesday to protest the war in Iraq.    Led by a student speaking into a megaphone, the demonstrators shouted anti-war chant after chant.    A few pro-Iraq war activists also gathered outside of the school building,…

  • Township, borough working toward pact on library parking fees

    By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    In the ongoing effort to resolve the disagreement over funding for subsidized parking at the Princeton Public Library, Princeton Borough is preparing a proposal to submit to the township that could potentially be approved by council as soon as Tuesday, Borough Mayor Mildred Trotman said Thursday.    The announcement follows the…

  • Princeton High students protest war in Iraq

    Princeton High students protest war in Iraq

    Princeton High School students marked the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq with a protest rally on Wednesday. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski