Week in Review: Local Landmark Stolen from Nassau Street and More

The Princeton Township Municipal Building on Witherspoon Street and Borough Hall on Monument Drive could both be effectively used after the towns consolidate on Jan. 1, suggested the Transition Task Force Facilities Subcommittee last week. It also suggested the names of the buildings be changed to reflect the united municipalities. The recommendation next goes before the governing bodies for approval. The TTF suggested using the current Borough Hall for Human Services, the Health Department, Public Works, downtown administrative offices and other uses, and the current township building could be used for the Police Department, Engineering Department, Municipal Court, mayor and other administrative offices and Township Committee meeting room.

Contractors at a Westminster Choir College building accidentally cut a gas main Monday, resulting in temporary evacuations and road closures around Walnut Lane while crews took readings and PSE&G shut off the leak. No injuries were reported and the main was shut off within about 15 minutes.

Princeton International Academy Charter School  was denied a third planning year by the state Department of Education Monday because "because they failed to demonstrate sufficient progress towards readiness," according to the DOE. PIACS was approved in 2010 to serve students from the South Brunswick, Princeton and West Windsor-Plainsboro school districts, but has not been able to find a suitable location for its facilities within those towns. PIACS spokesman Parker Block has said that the school has not yet considered filing an appeal or asking for a third extension year from the DOE.

A stuffed Icelandic ram that has stood in front of Landau of Princeton woolens for 40 years went missing early in the week, prompting a plea from the owners for its return. The taxidermied sheep was stolen once before in what turned out to be a college prank and the business hopes that this was a similarly harmless incident.

Lizzie Frieder, 17, who will be a Princeton Day School senior in the fall, placed second in a baking contest and winning approval of TV's "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro last year and opened her own business, "Baked by Lizzie," last fall. The home-based business offers homemade cakes that customers can order through her website.