Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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Storm’s impact continues into Monday with outages, closed roads
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer A few roads remained closed and some local residents were still without power Monday evening after flooding and downed trees and utility poles caused by torrential rain and high winds resulted in myriad road closures, intermittent power outages, and damage to houses and cars throughout the area, according to area…
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The days of rail travel not likely to return to Plainsboro
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer PLAINSBORO — The idea has been broached numerous times over the years, according to both municipal officials and township records. Advocates say that the construction of a full-service train station — or at least an extension of the Dinky line — in Plainsboro Township would allow Plainsboro commuters to depart…
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AT WORK
By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer Name: Danny R. Hsieh, 30. Hometown: Springfield. Business: Montgomery Gardens. Job title: Co-owner. Job location: 1980 Route 206, Montgomery. How did you get this job? My father, who is co-owner, gave me this job. He founded the company 26 years ago in Springfield and opened this store in…
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AT WORK
Danny R. Hsieh, co-owner of Montgomery Gardens on Route 206 in Montgomery. Staff photo by Katie Wagner
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Couple gives $25 million for new hospital building
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer Former West Windsor residents David and Patricia Atkinson have pledged $25 million for the construction of the new University Medical Center at Princeton on a site in Plainsboro Township, in what hospital officials say will be the largest donation ever made to a hospital in New Jersey. The majority of…
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State’s proposed aid cuts to small towns rouse Rocky Hill
Rocky Hill Mayor Ed Zimmerman, shown outside Borough Hall, is alarmed by projected state aid cuts to New Jersey’s smallest municipalities. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski
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The days of rail travel not likely to return to Plainsboro
Republican presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie waves to the crowd at the Plainsboro railroad station on Nov. 2, 1940, during a whistle-stop rally. Courtesy Evelyn Wicoff, Plainsboro Historical Society
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Environmental auction set for Princeton High School
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer Forget “Silent Spring” — the new movement in environmentalism is silent auctions. At least at Princeton High School. From 6 to 8 p.m. March 19 at the school’s Numina Gallery, PHS biology teacher Andrea Panagakis and her bioethics classes will hold a silent auction to raise money for a campaign…
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271 housing units included in Skillman Village development plan
By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — The Township Committee has accepted the suggestion of its planning consultants to include approximately 271 residential units in the Skillman Village redevelopment plan. The decision came on Wednesday, during a special meeting in which the 2008 draft of the plan was released. The Skillman Village redevelopment project area…
