The Northern Burlington County Regional School Band Booster Association will be hosting a pasta dinner fund-raiser on Sunday March 10 from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Crosswicks Firehouse. The all-you-can-eat dinner will include salad, rolls, pasta and meatballs, soft drinks and dessert.
The price is $8.50 for diners per adult; children between 6 and 11 are $5 per person; children five and younger may eat for free. Take- out orders will also be available for $9.50.
All proceeds will go directly to the NBCRHS award winning marching unit.
Call Patty Jarvis at 609-496-1117 with questions.
Mansfield Township Committee meetings will be held March 13 and March 27. The meetings take place at 7:30 p.m. and are held in the Mansfield Township Municipal building located on East Main Street.
The next scheduled recycle pick up for Mansfield Township is March 11.
The Crafts Creek Spring Hill Brook Watershed Association will meet 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 12, at Rutgers Eco Complex, located on the Columbus-Florence Road.
The Consolidated Fire Association located at 20 Crosswicks St. in Bordentown will sponsor Lenten dinners in March.
The dinners are from 4 p.m. to 8pm each week. The dinners will take place March 8, March 16, March 22 and March 29.
People may eat in, take out, or request delivery — for local homebound residents.
Entree choices are: fried cod, fried chicken, or coconut shrimp.
The cost is $12 per senior; $13 eat in or take out; $14 for delivery; or chicken nuggets are priced at $8 for eat in-take out orders; $9 for delivery per order.
For preorders and reservations call 609-298-4761.
The Mansfield Township Recreation Committee will meet on Tuesday, March 19, at 8 p.m. in the Mansfield Township Municipal Building located on Main Street in Columbus.
All are invited to attend and participate.
The next Mansfield Township Board of Education meeting will be held on Monday, March 25.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Mansfield Township Elementary School which is located on Mansfield Road East. The meeting will take place in the Media Center.
The Consolidated Fire Association will hold its annual Easter flower sale from March 28 to March 30 at the Fire House, 20 Crosswicks St. in Bordentown.
The Mansfield Township School District has begun its kindergarten registration round-up process for the 2013-2014 school year. Children must be five years of age on or before Oct. 1, in order to enroll in kindergarten for the upcoming school year.
Call Beth Pigott at 609-298-2037, ext. 2010, for a registration packet. Packets will be returned during open registration held at John Hydock Elementary School today, Thursday, Feb. 7, and Friday, Feb. 8.
Wesley United Methodist Church, Main Street, Columbus, is sponsoring a Good Friday program on March 29 at 9 a.m. Fellowship time and 9:30 a.m. “Seven Last Words of Christ” worship program will be held in solemn remembrance of this dark day in the Christian calendar.
To learn more, contact Karen Bailey at 609298-7847.
Are you planning a bridal shower? A baby shower? How about a birthday party? Keep in mind we have a beautiful historic building right in town for your event! Come check out the Columbus Grange for your next big party!
Call 609-379-2080 for information.
Mark your calendar for a home cooked Ham Dinner. The Columbus Grange will be having a Ham dinner on Saturday May 4. Reservations required. Call Claudia 609-324-0729 for your reservation. Take outs available also.
Adults $15 per person; children 6 to 10 are $6 per child.
The Mansfield Township School District is asking parents or anyone aware of a pre-school aged child, between the ages of 3 to 5, who may be developmentally delayed to notify Dori Levy, interim supervisor of Special Services.Those children who qualify as a pre-school child with a disability after being evaluated by the Child Study Team, will have a program developed addressing specific areas of need such as speech, language, motor and other readiness skills.Ms. Levy can be contacted at the Mansfield Township Elementary School, via 609-298-2037, ext. 2136.
Someone or a few took the Vet Markers and some Firemen Markers from about 59 graves at the Columbus Cemetery.A visitor came to the cemetery to attend to her father’s grave and found his marker missing.She and her husband, searched the cemetery and found the markers thrown all over the grounds.They were kind enough to pick up all of the markers.The markers do not have names on them. They only have the year and the war the veteran served our country.Thank you in advance for any help you can give the cemetery committee members. Please remember that the ground at the cemetery is sacred and has special meaning to those who have family members buried there.Call Dorothy Archer at 609-298-4339 with any information as to what happened.
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