Monday, January 28, 2013
A 6-year-old girl was pulled from a swimming pool while attending a birthday party.
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Monday, January 28
Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan and Chief Guy Armour of the Plainsboro Police Department announced today that police are investigating the near-drowning of a 6-year-old girl, who was hospitalized after she was retrieved from a hotel swimming pool in the borough. The child, a Trenton resident whose name is being withheld, is being treated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where she was taken after she was found in the pool at the Homewood Suites by Hilton Princeton on Jan. 26. Police responded to the hotel after receiving a call shortly after 8:30 p.m., alerting them to the near drowning. The child was taken to the University Medical Center at Princeton in Plainsboro before being transferred to Robert …
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The school now shares at a campus at the former St. Joseph's Seminary. The school's building on Lambert Drive is under contract to another private school.
The American Boychoir School has moved from Princeton to Plainsboro. The move was made official with a ribbon cutting by Plainsboro Mayor Peter Cantu on Thursday. The school, located at the Princeton Center for Arts and Education on Mapleton Road, is home to 45 boarding and day students in grades 4-8. The new property offers not only a gym and performance space- both unavailable at the former Lambert Drive location- but also room to grow up to 120 students, Head of School Lisa Eckstrom said. Currently, the school occupies more than 38,000 square feet of space in three buildings and has plans to expand following additional classroom renovations. The boys returned from the holiday break Wednesday night and came directly to the new location…
Monday, October 1, 2012
A West Windsor resident launched an online petition requesting that state officials abort the project. DOT representatives never specified what would determine the project’s success or failure: many residents see only failure.
In what seems to be a growing movement against the Route 1 jughandle closures, a resident of Penns Neck in West Windsor has launched an online petition asking the New Jersey Department of Transportation to end the 12-week pilot program. The closures- which prohibit drivers from turning left off Route 1 north at Washington Road and Harrison Street- aim to reduce congestion along Route 1 north through Lawrenceville, West Windsor and Plainsboro. If the trial- which began in early August- is a success, the state plans to close jughandles permanently. But what confuses many people is that DOT representatives have never specified what would determine the project’s success or failure. Many residents see only failure. “The NJDOT implemented the …
Monday, July 30, 2012
The Plainsboro native also won three medals at the Beijing Olympics.
Twenty-five-year-old Rebecca Soni is taking home a silver medal from the 2012 London Olympics in the 100-meter breaststroke. Soni came in with the time of 1:05.55, falling .08 seconds behind Lithuania’s 15-year-old Ruta Meilutyte who took the gold with a time of 1:05.47. At start of the race it appeared there was a malfunction with the starting gun, but no one was disqualified. Later this week Soni will compete in heats for the 200-meter breaststroke and the 4x100 medley relay. Four years ago Soni took home the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics for the 200-meter breaststroke, and two silver medals in the 100-meter breaststroke and 4x100-meter medley relay. “Right now, I’m not focusing on the medals or winning every event, I can’t get too…
The 100-meter breaststroke finals will be held at 3:15 p.m. eastern time.
Olympic medalist Rebecca Soni, a former Plainsboro resident, will once again compete for Team USA as she swims for three medals this week. Twenty-five-year-old Soni will swim for the gold Monday in the finals for the 100-meter breaststroke. Later in the week she will compete in heats for the 200-meter breaststroke and the 4x100 medley relay. Four years ago Soni took home the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics for the 200-meter breaststroke, and two silver medals in the 100-meter breaststroke and 4x100-meter medley relay. “Right now, I’m not focusing on the medals or winning every event, I can’t get too wrapped up in all that. I’m trying to approach it like it’s just another meet,” Soni told the Star-Ledger. Born in Freehold and later …
Thursday, May 24, 2012
In the span of eight hours, more than one hundred patients were relocated, while one hospital closed and another one opened for business.
As Erica Markee was wheeled through the halls of Princeton Hospital on Tuesday, nurses lined her route, clapping and cheering. Markee, of Lawrenceville, who delivered son Hayden Samuel Markee via C-section on Monday, was the last patient to leave the hospital on Witherspoon Street and be taken by ambulance to the new hospital- University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro- off of Route 1. “It’s very emotional,” Hospital President and CEO Barry Rabner said. "You know we’ve been (in Princeton) for 93 years and there are people who have been working here for 20 years, 30 years, one for 56 years. It’s not without its sadness.” Rabner and others hospital officials were on hand to greet patients as they arrived via ambulance at the new…
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro held a ribbon cutting and open house on Saturday.
Nearly a decade after discussions first began about a new and expanded hospital, officials cut the ribbon at the new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro on Saturday. “Welcome to your new hospital,” Hospital President and CEO Barry Rabner told members of the public came for a day of celebration and a sneak peek at the new $445 million hospital complex off Route 1 in Plainsboro. “Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to serve you in the past and hope to do our best to serve you in the future,” Rabner said. The new hospital will officially open May 22, the same day doors will close at the hospital on Witherspoon Street in Princeton. Construction began at the 171-acre property, located between Scudders Mill and …
Monday, April 9, 2012
There will be one hospital open on May 21 (Princeton), two hospitals open on May 22 (Princeton and Plainsboro) and one hospital open on May 23 (Plainsboro).
For nearly eight months, staff and administrators at the University Medical Center of Princeton have been preparing for one day: May 22, 2012. That’s the day when staff and patients will leave Witherspoon Street and move into the new hospital off Route 1 in Plainsboro. “We will begin [the move] at 8 a.m. and expect to be done six hours later,” CEO Barry Rabner said. The hospital hired Facility Development Inc., Phoenix, Ariz. to help plan the move. The company has done more than 200 similar moves, Rabner said. History of the New Hospital Construction on the new $445 million hospital complex off Route 1 in Plainsboro began in October 2008 after hospital officials decided they needed a larger facility than could be accommodated on the nine-…
Saturday, March 31, 2012
An Edison man out celebrating his birthday was killed in a one vehicle crash on Dey Road Saturday morning.
Authorities have charged a Plainsboro man with causing a motor vehicle crash that led to the death of one of the passengers on Dey Road in South Brunswick early Saturday morning. Rohit Maddineni, 25, was charged with aggravated manslaughter after the crash, which killed Pavan Gottumukala, 25, of Edison. South Brunswick Police spokesman Sgt. Jim Ryan said Maddineni, Gottumukala, and a 25-year-old female were out celebrating Gottumukala's birthday earlier in the evening. Authorities said Maddineni was drinking before he drove Gottumukala and the 25-year-old female back towards Plainsboro at about 3:40 a.m. Maddineni lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a utility pole along Dey Road, according to police. Gottumukala, who was …
Middlesex County man died early this morning in one-vehicle crash near South Brunswick-Plainsboro border.
12:20 p.m. Dey Road has been shut down again as PSE&G is making repairs to a utility pole struck during this morning's fatal crash. South Brunswick Police spokesman Sgt. Jim Ryan said the road is expected to be shut down for the next two hours. *** 11 a.m. A 25-year-old Middlesex County man was killed in a crash early Saturday as he was returning home from celebrating his birthday with friends, according to South Brunswick Police. The victim was a passenger in a vehicle that was traveling down Dey Road at about 3:40 a.m. this morning, when the car struck a utility pole and overturned. South Brunswick Police spokesman Sgt. Jim Ryan said police have not yet determined the cause of the accident. The driver and another passenger were taken to …
Aira D
10:28 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012
I work in the area, I have almost been hit 3 times, that is when it has become illegal to turn around in someones driveway! Just yesterday the school bus had the red lights, a child was crossing the street and jumped back, someone making a turn. It won't change until someone is killed..... more ›