Author: Central Jersey

  • HILLSBOROUGH:‘Shop Hillsborough’ program moves forward

    It’ll be a way to chip away at property tax bill By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Residents should expect to receive a Shop Hillsborough discount card with their new property tax bills late in July. It’s appropriate, because the card will be a key to saving a little money on property taxes. Township Committeeman Greg…

  • Ben Franklin at NJ State Library June 22
  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Body of missing Hopewell man identified

    The body of a 72-year-old man found in the Delaware River on May 30 has been identified as Hopewell Township resident Wilber Vannoy. Mr. Vannoy had been reported missing on May 21. His death has been an accidental drowning. The body had been spotted by a kayaker who called police at approximately 3 p.m. on…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Sports exhibit on view at Howell Farms

    The Mercer County Park Commission is among the first in the nation to host the Smithsonian Institution’s newest traveling exhibit, "Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America." The exhibit will be on display in the Howell Farm Living History Museum Visitors Barn in Hopewell Township until June 22, featuring photographs, artifacts and memorabilia that tell the…

  • EAST AMWELL: Cemetery tour offered for June 21

    Historical society will tell stories of the people buried in old plots Looking for a story with a good plot? Well, how about a plot with a good story? If so, then join the East Amwell Historical Society for its cemetery tour Saturday, June 21. The history bus will be rolling out to visit five…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Mildred Murphy honored as example of ‘positive aging’

    HILLSBOROUGH: Mildred Murphy honored as example of ‘positive aging’

    Hillsborough’s Mildred Murphy, right, is presented a certificate acknowledging her "positive aging" by Somerset County Freeholder Director Patrick Scaglione and Laurie Roome of the Office on Aging and Disability Services.

  • Ben Franklin at NJ State Library June 22

    Ben Franklin at NJ State Library June 22

    By Gary Cooper As a special program of the NJ350 Capital Celebration Family Festival on June 22, the NJ State Library will host a free program “An Hour with Ben Franklin” from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., in the Level 2 Reading Room of the library, 185 West State Street, Trenton. The NJ 350: A Capital…

  • MANVILLE: Students, pros to make beautiful music together

    Zazz concert at high school By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer Friday bodes to be a beautiful night, especially to enjoy swing and Big Band music in the outdoors at Jazz Under the Stars concert at Manville High School. The concert is sponsored by the Manville Music Organization. "We have four very talented high school…

  • PRINCETON: Death at university ruled a suicide

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer A 73-year-old Cranbury man fell from a parking garage on the Princeton University campus Saturday and later died in what has been ruled a suicide, authorities said. The man, whose name is being withheld at the request of the family, was  found along a path by the West or…