Author: Central Jersey

  • HAMILTON: Dollar store reportedly robbed at gunpoint

       A man allegedly brandishing a silver revolver robbed the Family Dollar store on Greenwood Avenue on Tuesday, July 8.    The incident took place around 9:47 p.m. When officers arrived, they spoke with an employee who said that a man entered the store and approached the register counter.    The employee told police that the suspect…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Dog can’t read but is good listener at library

    By Geena Molinaro, Special Writer WEST WINDSOR — At 3 years old, Mulligan is quite accomplished. She recently graduated from school at the top of her class and just started her first job on July 10. But, she is still has some work to do on her reading skills and wants to help others practice,…

  • It is all about the berries

    It is all about the berries

    Pitspone Farm offers small fruits that aren’t easily found elsewhere By Faith Bahadurian    In a pleasant suburban neighborhood, each front yard presents a well-tended oasis of green grass, shrubbery, and flowers. But a peek into one back yard I recently visited reveals an exuberant collection of plantings that will produce berries and other small fruits…

  • PRINCETON: This time, puppy pilfered from shelter
  • PRINCETON: This time, puppy pilfered from shelter

    PRINCETON: This time, puppy pilfered from shelter

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer A Princeton woman was arrested and charged with stealing a female puppy Saturday from the SAVE animal shelter, the second time in as many weeks that an animal was taken from the shelter on Herrontown Road in Princeton. Authorities said a SAVE staff member reported that a woman later…

  • It is all about the berries

    It is all about the berries

    Michael Brown oversees the berries grown at Pitspone Farm in Kendall Park.

  • LOOSE ENDS: Sweet sounds for summer

    LOOSE ENDS: Sweet sounds for summer

    Local jazz group shares music and some Princeton history By Pam Hersh It had been a ‘Hard Day’s Night’ filled with trivial traumas from sun up ’til moon rise. The final insults came when my brand-new smart phone behaved like a dummy. It flew out of my hands and smashed on the sidewalk, as did…

  • Plumsted firefighters, EMTs make first heroin overdose save using Narcan

       Township firefighters and emergency medical technicians successfully tested their training on Narcan by reviving a victim of a drug overdose with the antidote.    The emergency medical division of the Plumsted Township Fire District made their first heroin overdose reversal using the antidote Naloxone, more popularly known as Narcan, on Saturday, June 14. They had…

  • FLORENCE: Town shows its patriotic spirit

    ‘Little Toot’ owner Joseph Varga featured but not as before By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor    This year, the 2014 Patriotic Day parade was bittersweet for Joseph Varga.    After 37 years of driving his mechanized train in the parade, he saw his “Little Toot” placed upon a cart to be pulled along the route while he…