The West Windsor-Plainsboro school board spent more than an hour and a half during its April 22 meeting discussing recommendations from a review committee for enriching the programs for the district’s exceptionally-able learners, focusing on the middle school level. [more]

School district officials are taking steps to ensure animals involved in student experiments in a freshman honors biology class will be treated humanely after two freshmen raised concern during the school board’s April 22 meeting that the animals were being harmed. [more]

After being elected to his first term on the West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional school board last month, Alapakkam Manikandan was sworn in during the board’s reorganization meeting on April 22. Incumbents Richard Kaye and Randall Tucker were also sworn in to their second terms on the board. [more]

Can West Windsor adopt an ordinance that would ensure that construction companies bidding on large township projects are solid companies that provide pension plans, health benefits, and apprenticeship-training programs for their employees?. [more]

After a heated debate over a proposed 50 percent salary increase, the West Windsor Township Council narrowly introduced the township’s $35.4 million budget with a vote of 3-2 on April 21. And now council members on both sides of the issue are proposing their own measures relating to the salary/reimbursement debate, scheduled for discussion on Monday, May 5. [more]

After slight modification, the Plainsboro Township Committee unanimously voted to adopt a $20.8 million municipal budget for 2008 during its April 23 meeting.

Some 61 percent of this year’s proposed budget, which is up $1.2 million — or 6 percent — over last year’s, contains employee-related expenses, including salary and wage, health insurance, and pension costs. [more]

Plainsboro officials are tentatively signing on to join forces with the League of Municipalities in funding litigation against the proposed third-round state Council on Affordable Housing regulations. [more]

Work has been completed six weeks early on the Big Bear Brook Bridge, and the section of Old Trenton Road affected by the work has now been re-opened. [more]

Most West Windsor residents who currently have a parking spot at the Princeton Junction train station are not willing to pay any more than they currently do for a closer or covered spot, while most who don’t have a parking space would be a lot more flexible, according to a survey released by Intercap Holdings CEO Steve Goldin. [more]