Category: news
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PRINCETON: Student joins leaders in Paris to combat climate change
By Logan Sander, Special Writer Since she was young, Princeton University sophomore Soumya Sudhakar has always loved finding solutions, and this November, she will travel to Paris to take part in finding a solution to her largest problem yet — climate change. From Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, Ms. Sudhakar will participate in this year’s…
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PRINCETON: Mayor says meetings with university leaders make for better town/gown relationship (Updated)
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Mayor Liz Lempert said Monday that town-gown relations with Princeton University have improved in the past three years on her watch, with her pronouncement coming ahead of a scheduled visit by the school’s president to the Princeton Council next week. Mayor Lempert, whose husband, Ken Norman, is a tenured…
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PRINCETON: Institute for Advanced Study to march ahead with housing project, despite $4.5 million offer for property
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The Institute for Advanced Study said Wednesday that it would proceed with its 15-unit faculty housing project, despite a pending legal challenge and a $4.5 million offer to buy the disputed land where fighting occurred during the Revolutionary War. “The Institute has received all necessary approvals and permissions from…
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PRINCETON: Municipality rejects university’s applications for Butler Tract demolition permits
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The municipality on Wednesday rejected Princeton University’s applications for demolition permits for tearing down its former graduate housing complex known as the Butler Tract. Construction official John Pettenati said he wants to see more detailed plans from the university, which is seeking to tear down the some 115 structures…
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LAWRENCE: Pennsylvania man shatters driver’s window with flashlight in road rage incident
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer LAWRENCE — A road rage incident that started in Pennsylvania and ended on Lawrence Road resulted in an assortment of charges filed against an Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, man after he shattered another driver’s car window with a flashlight, according to the Police Department. Louis Eric Freeman, 54, was charged with…
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PRINCETON: Police seek help in locating three believed involved in theft at restaurant
By Leah Kahn, Staff Writer The Princeton Police Department is asking for help in tracking down two women and a man who were involved in the theft of a wallet from a patron at the Panera Bread restaurant at 136 Nassau St. on Nov. 8. The suspects used the victim’s credit card to make purchases…
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PRINCETON: Nearly three years later, consolidation advocates tout benefits of merging borough, township
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer On the first day of 2013, Mayor Liz Lempert proclaimed that the historic merger of the borough and the township that took effect that morning would succeed, a model for not just the state but the entire nation to follow. “Today, with the beginning of our newly consolidated government,…
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PRINCETON: 90-year-old man on scooter crashes into back of dump truck, suffers only minor injuries
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer A 90-year-old man was injured when he fell off the scooter he was riding after it struck the back of a Mack truck on Cherry Hill Road shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to the Princeton Police Department. William F. Otis, Jr., 90, of Princeton, was traveling south on Cherry…
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PRINCETON: Preservation commission debates merits of proposed Witherspoon-Jackson historic district
By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer The Historic Preservation Commission met Monday afternoon to discuss the fate of the proposed Witherspoon-Jackson local historic district before about a dozen interested citizens at Witherspoon Hall. The commission met last week to listen to consultant Robert Wise outline the rationale for the historic district, whose boundaries would be John…