Day: June 23, 2011

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Kingston firemen graduate national academy courses

       Two officers from the Kingston Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 recently completed two separate incident management courses at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland.    Capt. Walter Lane completed the Command and Control of Incident Operations course in February of this year.    In this six-day course, fire officers review the incident command system and studied…

  • SENIOR MENUS

    June 23-30    All meals are served at noon at Hibernia Apartments in Lambertville.    Reservations are required. Call 609-397-2228 24 hours in advance.    The value of each meal is $5.10. Any amount donated over this is a tax-deductible contribution.    All menus are subject to change and include milk and margarine.    The sodium-controlled menu is the same…

  • PRINCETON: Barney Frank addresses Coalition for Peace Action

       U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., gave the keynote address at the Coalition for Peace Action’s 30th anniversary Membership Dinner and Gathering on Saturday, June 18, at the McKay Campus Center of Princeton Theological Seminary.    Speaking to an audience of about 225, Rep. Frank talked about reducing Pentagon spending by $1 trillion over the next 10…

  • PRINCETON AREA: Police blotter

    Princeton Township    The police and fire departments responded to a vehicle fire at 12:20 p.m. on Wednesday. Police received multiple 911 calls reporting the fire on Route 206 near Cherry Hill Road. The Princeton Fire Department extinguished the flames and determined the cause was likely a fuel leak. The driver, Waldemar Bonilla-Ruiz, 37, of Trenton,…

  • Fighting a parking ticket in Princeton

    Richard Moody, Crested Butte, Colorado I recently had the misfortune to experience Princeton Borough’s inefficient court system at its worst.    Deciding to challenge a parking ticket in court, I was instructed to appear at 10.30 am. On arrival at the court room at 10.20 a.m. to discover that some attendees had already been sitting in…

  • EDITORIAL: Grads: Make civic life part of your responsibility

       Central High’s graduation was held Tuesday. What would be your message to the Class of 2011?    Here’s one perspective:    First of all, congratulations. You have achieved one of the first milestones in your life; it wasn’t that bad, was it?    Realize how incredibly fortunate you are. You live in one of the most wonderful places…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Honors and awards given to Central High seniors

    By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    On Monday at the annual honors and awards night, the following were given to members of the Central High School Class of 2011:    HONOR AWARDS    The Hopewell Valley YMCA Award in memory of Bud Ruskie to the boys who best represents the ideals of the school — Ian Patrick McQueary.…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: City will have general election races

    By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    LAMBERTVILLE: What was expected to be a lackluster primary election on June 7 got interesting after the polls closed that night.    In Lambertville, where two City Council seats (three-year terms) will be filled in November, incumbent Democrats Elaine Warner and Beth Asaro — who had thought they would be running…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Howell Farm picked as site for photo project unveiling

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    New Jersey’s agricultural history is a rich one — hence the time-honored name, “The Garden State.”    Now everyone can see that history.    The state Department of Agriculture has just completed a 20-year project to describe and index over 7.000 photographs of New Jersey farming. Two thousand of those pictures, which…