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Four candidates have filed petitions to run for three three-year term seats on the Princeton Regional Board of Education. Two of the seats are in Princeton Borough and one is in the Township. The candidates are: Caroline Mitchell of Tupelo Row and Mia Cahill of Ridgeview Road, for the Township seat, and Rebecca Cox of Madison Street and incumbent Joshua Leinsdorf of Forester Drive, for the Borough seats. The election will take place on April 18.
Princeton Borough Council formally began considering zoning last Tuesday that could eventually dictate what will appear on the site currently occupied by the University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP) on Witherspoon Street.
Literacy advocate Marcia Bossart has spent a great deal of time in the classroom. She laughs when recalling a favorite cartoon showing elementary school children poring excitedly over a book — a dictionary. In the cartoon, one child tells the other excitedly: "They call it a wireless spell checker." The surprised delight shown in the cartoon is matched by the excitement Ms. Bossart, former Superintendent of Princeton Regional Schools, has found among third grade students in the Princeton Regional Schools and the Charter School since January, when representatives of the Princeton Rotary Club handed out copies of A Student's Dictionary to the children.
This town is going to the dogs, quite literally.
Soon, like the art cows that were sprung on Manhattan and added a look to the city previously unseen, dogs will make their way into Princeton, and, it turns out, all for a good cause.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, a Princeton University faculty member since 1990, has been named to chair the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. The move follows an initiative put forth in January designed to give a more prominent role to the creative and performing arts on campus.