Category: news
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PRINCETON: Town could require a bag fee, but it’s still unclear if council will move forward on the issue
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The Princeton Council could require businesses to charge customers fees for single-use shopping bags so long as officials can show the bags pose a local environmental problem, according to the town’s lawyers. In a nine-page legal opinion, municipal attorney Trishka W. Cecil and assistant municipal attorney Lisa M. Maddox…
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HILLSBOROUGH: School administrator Stys receives service award
Hillsborough resident Timothy Stys, the business administrator and board secretary at Watchung Hills Regional High School District, recently was honored by the N.J. Association of School Business Officials with a Distinguished Service Award for his long-term, continuous exemplary service. As part of the award, Mr. Stys had the honor of presenting a $1,000 scholarship from…
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PRINCETON: Beloved university figure Kenny Samuel calls it a career
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer At Princeton University, most people know him as Kenny, a man hard to miss for anyone who attended or worked there during the past 49 years. Kenny, as Sgt. Kenneth Samuel of the school’s department of Public Safety is more formally known, decided to call it a career at…
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PRINCETON: Council to delay consideration of paid sick time ordinance until end of summer
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Mayor Liz Lempert said Monday that the council would wait until after August to consider an ordinance requiring private sector employers to give paid sick time to their employees who work in Princeton. In speaking to reporters, she acknowledged that the idea is “controversial” but said it is one…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Rental apartments proposal slated for planners’ review
By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Just weeks after a change of zoning to allow them, two apartment buildings have been proposed for Amwell Road opposite Pleasant View Road. The rental apartments would be built in a redevelopment zone passed by the Township Committee about a month ago after first being proposed last year. The Planning…
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PRINCETON: Tale of the duct tape prom could turn into a scholarship fix for two PHS students
By Maddy Anand, Packet Media Group Most people use duct tape to fix things – these two Princeton High seniors used it to create prom outfits. Margot Shumaker and Jordan Hunter are scholarship finalists in the Duck Brand’s Stuck at Prom competition for creating their prom outfits entirely out of duct tape. With 30 rolls…
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PRINCETON: Plans in the works to make sure reisdents have transportation to hopsital if bus route is shut down
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Mayor Liz Lempert is working with Princeton University and University Medical Center officials on a two-pronged approach to ensure residents have access to the hospital after a NJ Transit bus to the Route 1 facility “likely” is eliminated later this year. The proposed solutions involve the expected adding of…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Weather holds off for high school graduation
Mother Nature opened a window of opportunity Thursday night and Hillsborough High School jumped through it to hold graduation ceremonies on its Noonan Field on campus. After a year trying the indoor facilities at Sun Bank Arena in Trenton, early-evening commencement was back at its home athletic stadium. It was a bit of touch and…
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GRADUATION 2015: West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer An emotional West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North Principal Michael Zappichi bid farewell to the high school’s Class of 2015 Thursday afternoon — the last time that he would present a graduating class to school district officials. Mr. Zappichi is retiring, effective July 1, but not before using his last graduation…