Princeton officials underestimated the cost of challenging the town’s affordable housing obligation in court by 260 percent. The governing body is slated tonight to vote on a resolution that would increase the amount of money Princeton will spend on an affordable housing lawsuit from $50,000 to $180,000. The municipality joined East Windsor Township, Hamilton Township, Hopewell…
A Mercer County grand jury returned indictments last week against two county correction officers in connection with the assault of an inmate in May of last year. Isaac Wood III, age 41, of Ewing, and Trachell Syphax, age 32, of Trenton, were each indicted on two counts of second-degree official misconduct and one count of…
Princeton Animal Control Officer Saul Nathan Barson was arrested by the Solebury Township Police Department for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old boy in a park earlier this month. The Solebury Township Police Department received information regarding a sexual assault that occurred on Feb. 3 at the Pat Livezey Park in Solebury Township, Pa. The investigation revealed…
A Mercer County Superior Court judge today granted the state’s motion to detain a Skillman man charged with luring and lewdness offenses in locker rooms with children under age 13 last week at Mercer County Community College. Adam Woolf, 23, of Skillman (a section of Montgomery Township next to Princeton), is charged with five counts…
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that municipalities must offer more affordable housing for poor and middle-class families whose needs were ignored during a 16-year gap period when the state failed to calculate the towns’ fair-share housing obligations. The court did not specify the number of units that must be built statewide or endorse…
The long and expensive fight over a Revolutionary War battlefield in Princeton is finally over. The Institute for Advanced Study and the Civil War Trust today announced jointly that they have reached a compromise regarding land the school had slated for faculty housing. The settlement ends years of fighting about land that was part of…
The Robbinsville Township teenager charged with fatally hitting Robbinsville Schools Superintendent Steven Mayer in April pleaded guilty on Monday afternoon in Mercer County Family Court, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said. The driver, whose name is being withheld because she was a juvenile at the time of the offense, entered a guilty plea for leaving…
A Trenton man was recently indicted in connection with the murder of former Princeton resident George Jamison Jr., who was killed while he was waiting for a bus in Trenton in August of 2014. Jamison, a father of three who lived in Princeton for many years and moved to Pennington in 2012, was sitting on…
