Category: news/the_princeton_packet
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Residents abuzz over fees for home alarm systems
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — Police officials may get hounded by residents complaining about registration fees for burglar alarms, but those same officials maintain the added cost is necessary to deal with a plague of resource-draining false burglar alarms. Thousands of notices from the West Windsor Police Department were sent to residents…
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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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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…
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Vacant downtown storefronts await new tenants in a ‘tough market’
A Fed-Ex delivery man hurries past a couple of Nassau Street’s empty storefronts on Monday. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski
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Historic homes on Princeton Nurseries site being renovated, sold
By Greg Forester, Staff Writer SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Want to own a piece of local history, or better yet, would you like to live inside a piece of history? Thanks to the renovation efforts of the people at Mapleton Associates, residents with an interest in living in a historical one-of-a-kind home can do just that,…
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Montgomery planners warn 3M on stormwater plan
By Katie Wagner, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — The Planning Board has warned representatives of 3M Corp. that it will want to know who will be taking over 3M’s Sourland Mountain property before hearing its revised stormwater management plan. 3M received the warning during a Jan. 28 hearing on its request for a waiver to its…
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AT WORK
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church Youth Ministry Coordinator Maria Ramirez. Staff photo by Nick Norlen
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Princeton Borough Councilman Andrew Koontz to run for freeholder
By Nick Norlen, Staff Writer Borough Councilman Andrew Koontz announced Sunday that he will run for Mercer County freeholder. Mr. Koontz joins a field of candidates seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination. The endorsement of the Mercer County Democratic Committee will be announced at the Mercer County Democratic Convention, which is scheduled for March 15. Mr.…
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Campaign role playing makes a school for politics
Montgomery High School students stand in as presidential candidates in mock debate on Monday. From left, Kevin Laskey as Barack Obama, Rachel Burns as Hillary Clinton, Trevor McLaughlin as John McCain and Chris Walczyszyn as Mitt Romney. Staff photo by Katie Wagner
