Author: Central Jersey

  • MANVILLE: 8th-graders set to figure out life’s puzzle

    MANVILLE: 8th-graders set to figure out life’s puzzle

    Melina Campos gives the farewell speech for her eighth-grade classmates at the intermediate school graduation on June 19. (Photo by Mary Ellen Day)

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: All eighth-graders to get laptops next year

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: All eighth-graders to get laptops next year

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer Saying the move will create an educational environment that will develop learning skills needed in the 21st century, the Hopewell Valley Regional School District has decided that each eighth-grader at Timberlane Middle School will receive a laptop computer at the beginning of the 2014-15 school year. The initiative is key…

  • MANVILLE: ‘Forgotten heroes’ honored at ceremony

    MANVILLE: ‘Forgotten heroes’ honored at ceremony

    Manville’s Renny Dilks pauses before he lays a white carnation at the memorial outside the VFW hall at the Korean War remembrance ceremony on June 24. (Photo by Mary Ellen Day)

  • PLUMSTED: Class of 2014 Warriors nab sheepskins
  • SENIOR MENUS

    July 3-10 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…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Freedom Fest

    WEST WINDSOR: Freedom Fest

    Thousands get early jump on the 4th By Charley Falkenburg, Special Writer WEST WINDSOR — The ladies of Glitter Hoops were working the crowds on Saturday as they swirled and shimmied their custom made hula hoops from their necks and shoulders to their waists and knees — and then all the way back up again.…

  • PRINCETON: Garden Theatre to reopen Wednesday

    PRINCETON: Garden Theatre to reopen Wednesday

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The Princeton University owned Garden Theatre on Nassau Street is due to reopen Wednesday after being closed for the past month while the new management team renovated the inside. The theater, a two-screen cinema that opened in 1920, got a new concession stand, carpet and light fixtures and other…

  • PRINCETON: Parking rules to be on the agenda

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer When Mayor Liz Lempert spoke before business leaders last week, she touched on a subject that she likened to a "third rail." It wasn’t taxes, public safety or government spending. It was parking. Later this year, the Princeton Council will have to determine what parking regulations should be in…

  • Union Boy Scouts Take Part In Historic New Jersey 350th Anniversary Event at Kean’s Liberty Hall Museum

    Union Boy Scouts Take Part In Historic New Jersey 350th Anniversary Event at Kean’s Liberty Hall Museum

    By Yankee Public Relations UNION, N.J. – The Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University recently hosted the Boy Scouts of America Patriots Path Council Historic Hike and Camporee with scouts from throughout the state camping out for three days on the grounds of the home of New Jersey’s first elected governor and signer of the…