Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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Township confirms approved senior housing project is on track
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer Despite the concern stated by residents during the Princeton Township Committee’s controversial amendment of the age-restriction on the Bunn Drive senior housing overlay zone — that the change would precipitate similar requests for the township’s other senior zone — no requests have yet been made, according to the township attorney.…
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Merchants’ buy-in sought for new Princeton ‘One Card’
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer Princeton Public Library and the Princeton Regional School District have signed on to the “Princeton Community One Card” program, but are local merchants sold on the idea? The partnership will involve a prepaid cash card program administered by the Princeton-based Heartland Payment Systems in which cardholders will get 1 percent…
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New bath fixture store specializes in European style
By Lauren Otis, Business Editor That elegant European-style makeover for your bathroom is closer than ever, literally and figuratively, with the recent opening of Princeton Bath & Kitchen at the Princeton Shopping Center. The new business specializes in high-end fixtures, many from well-known Parisian manufacturers, according to Bernadette Sopronyi, who runs the showroom side of…
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POLICE BLOTTER, Feb. 5
Montgomery A Fieldstone Road resident reported being the victim of a theft at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 29. The resident reported in January 2007 that he ordered and paid $36,278 for a flight simulator from a company located in Georgia. The resident reported that he has yet to receive the simulator from the company. The investigation…
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Wary West Windsor consultants to work on redevelopment plan
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — Township consultants John Madden and Gary Davies have agreed to assist Township Council in future redevelopment planning work for the township’s 350-acre redevelopment zone. The two consultants agreed Friday to provide analyses of data produced by entities involved in redevelopment work. Those entities will include project planning…
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Vacant downtown storefronts await new tenants in a ‘tough market’
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer They sit vacant, their storefront windows either exposing empty interiors or covered with paper and ads for new leases. But even when interested tenants call to fill Princeton’s available downtown shops, they sometimes still sit empty for months. In the last few weeks, two more stores — a pair within…
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Campaign role playing makes a school for politics
By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — A combination of booing and clapping resonated as four of the frontrunners in the U.S. presidential race paraded through rows of students with their spouses and bodyguards at their side, on route to their designated podiums on the Montgomery High School auditorium’s stage Monday. The presidential candidates, spouses…
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AT WORK
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer Maria Ramirez of Princeton Youth Ministry Coordinator St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church 214 Nassau St., Princeton How did you get into this job? You can call it a calling. A lot of soul searching. I had been going through a process of discernment between the job that…
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Montgomery board chief blames arrest on oversight, family issues
MONTGOMERY — Planning Board Chairman Steven Sacks-Wilner, who was arrested by Montgomery police for failing to pay traffic tickets Jan. 29, said his wife thought she had paid the tickets electronically. ”She thought the transactions had gone through and apparently they hadn’t,” Mr. Sacks-Wilner said. Warrants for Mr. Sacks-Wilner’s arrest had been issued by the…
