Category: news/the_princeton_packet

By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — State funding for the Vaughn Drive Connector road won’t be available until West Windsor develops a mixed-use redevelopment plan for the west side of the Northeast Corridor train tracks, according to a letter from the New Jersey Department of Transportation.    The letter means that now is the…

By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — A team of Orchard Hill Elementary School PTA members and parents of children attending the Kid Connection pre-school expressed their opposition to the location of a parking lot the school district is seeking to build on space shared by the two schools.    They addressed safety, quality of life…

By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Residents here will probably see an increase in tax bills this coming year, after administration officials proposed a $35.4 million municipal budget earlier this week that would mean an extra $198 in taxes for the average homeowner.    The main culprits behind the proposed tax hike are rising…

The Rev. Michael Prewitt is the founding pastor of Montgomery Ministries. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

By Greg Forester, Staff Writer    WEST WINDSOR — Township Council members, acting as the Board of Health, rejected testing of groundwater at a contaminated compost site in the township, Monday.    Testing of the Alexander Road site’s groundwater had been called for by the Board of Health earlier this year, but moving in that direction would…

By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer    MONTGOMERY — The Township Committee approved a contract with Omi Environmental LLC to study how planned upgrades to the sewage treatment plant at Skillman Village would impact the water quality.    The committee adopted a resolution March 6 that limits the project to no more than $39,000.    The study, which Township…

By Brian No, Special Writer    Journalists are still very much relevant today, Newsweek investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff argued Tuesday to a nearly full Dodds Auditorium at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.    ”Are we still relevant? Is there a role for people like myself … who report on a weekly basis?” Mr. Isikoff asked. He added,…

By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    Approximately a year after Princeton University announced it would digitize its library collection, Princeton Theological Seminary has decided to do the same, with the help of Microsoft’s Live Search Books service.    Announced by the seminary last week, the partnership will eventually allow religious scholars and regular Internet users from around…

By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer    On March 19, Princeton High School sophomore Aislinn Bauer will walk out of her seventh-period U.S. history class — where she’s been learning about World War II — to talk about another war.    To mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by a U.S.-led military coalition, students at…