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(11/06/11 11:00pm)
The University has pledged to contribute to a study of the localcommunity’s transit needs under an agreement with localgovernment that went into effect on Tuesday. At a reception heldin the Dinky waiting room, which the University has reopenedunder the agreement, officials from the University, Boroughand Township celebrated the passage of their memorandum ofunderstanding on transit negotiations.
(10/25/11 10:00pm)
The on-campus mayoral debate became a one-candidate forum when one of the candidates did not show up on Monday evening. Republican candidate Jill Jachera took questions on University-related issues when Democratic candidate Yina Moore ’79 was unable to attend.
(10/25/11 10:00pm)
The Borough Council voted on Tuesday night 3-2 to introduce a revised version of the Arts and Transit Neighborhood zoning ordinance for debate in the Borough Council. The ordinance will now go to the Regional Planning Board of Princeton for a second review.
(10/19/11 10:00pm)
Community members brought the ongoing debate over municipal consolidation to the University at a panel in Robertson Hall Wednesday evening, with representatives from the joint Borough-Township consolidation committee presenting their endorsement of the consolidation proposal.
(10/13/11 10:00pm)
Unbeknownst to many University students, the campus lies across two municipalities: Princeton Borough and Princeton Township. On Nov. 8, residents of both municipalities will vote on whether to consolidate the Borough and the Township into one municipality.
(10/11/11 10:00pm)
Princeton International Academy Charter School is suing South Brunswick, Princeton Regional and West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional school districts to prevent them from interfering with the charter school’s opening. A judge in Trenton heard the dispute on Tuesday.
(10/10/11 10:00pm)
A group of citizens has filed a lawsuit challenging the University’s proposed move of the Dinky station. The legal complaint, filed on Oct. 3 to the Superior Court of New Jersey in Trenton, challenges the University’s right to move the station. The complaint requests that the court permanently enjoin the University from moving the station and judge that the public has the permanent right to cross the University’s land to access the station.
(10/09/11 10:00pm)
Through the recently developed group text messaging system SwoopTEXT.com, leaders of campus organizations have a new communication platform that allows them to conveniently send free text messages to their members.
(10/06/11 10:00pm)
Planning authorities in Princeton expressed opposition to the University’s planned move of the Dinky as they considered the University’s requested zoning for a new arts district.
(10/04/11 10:00pm)
A group of citizens has filed a lawsuit challenging the University’s proposed move of the Dinky station.
(10/04/11 10:00pm)
The Borough Council voted 3-2 to approve the memorandum of understanding on the Dinky on Tuesday evening.
(10/02/11 10:00pm)
If Princeton residents vote to consolidate the Princeton Borough and Township this November, they can expect to receive aid from the state to cover 20 percent of the transition costs, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced on Friday. Christie also endorsed the consolidation measure and announced his support for pending legislation that would allow municipalities in the process of consolidation to spread their transition costs out over five years.
(09/28/11 10:00pm)
In May, the University, the Borough and the Township prepared a memorandum of understanding outlining a plan for a right-of-way easement that, should a new transit system ever replace the Dinky, would allow for a potential light rail system running all the way to Nassau Street. A revised version of the memo was released on Wednesday.
(09/28/11 10:00pm)
Candidates for this November’s Borough Council election discussed consolidation and town-gown relations at a public debate on Tuesday evening. Most of the candidates opposed the University’s plan to move the Dinky station and supported requests that the University increase its annual contribution to the Borough.
(09/27/11 10:00pm)
Local residents from the Princeton Borough and Princeton Township discussed the merits of the proposed municipal consolidation at a joint meeting of the Borough Council and Township Committee at a meeting Tuesday evening.
(09/26/11 10:00pm)
All of the four candidates for the Princeton Township Committee this fall support the University’s proposed Arts and Transit Neighborhood, as they explained in last night’s debate. All but one of the candidates supports municipal consolidation.
(09/20/11 10:00pm)
Candidates for Princeton Borough mayor spoke out on issues of municipal consolidation, the upcoming Valley Road School decision, and ways to reform the Borough’s budget management in a community forum on Tuesday evening. In an overwhelmingly Democratic Borough, this November’s election is the first competitive race for mayor in decades.
(09/18/11 10:00pm)
The Asbestos, Lead & Hazardous Waste Laborers’ Local 78, which is part of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, brought the rat to Nassau Street to protest the University’s use of non-unionized asbestos removal workers.
(09/18/11 10:00pm)
Borough and Township residents weighed the pros and cons of municipal consolidation at a forum hosted by the Princeton Community Democratic Organization on Sunday evening. Residents will vote on consolidation on Nov. 8.
(09/15/11 10:00pm)
Property owners and their neighbors on eastern Nassau Street in the Borough are looking to amend the area’s land-use ordinances in hopes of converting a formerly automobile-oriented area to a lively pedestrian-oriented neighborhood. At Tuesday’s meeting, the Borough Council heard a presentation on a proposed ordinance that would amend the zoning in this area to attract the desired development.