Author: Central Jersey

  • SOMERSET COUNTY: Need help finishing health care signup?

    Bridgewater library offers sessions to assist    People who have begun but not finished the medical insurance enrollment process under the Affordable Care Act can get free assistance at the Bridgewater library at 1 Vogt Drive, Bridgewater.    Enrollment assistance sessions for individuals, families and small business owners through Wednesdays, April 23 and 30, from 3:30 to…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: Deputy mayor Citizen of the Year

    Being selected meant a lot to the deputy mayor having come from a family of elks. His father was awarded Bordentown Elks Lodge first elk of the year from 1963-64. by Amy Batista, Special Writer BORDENTOWN CITY — Like father, like son.    Deputy Mayor James Lynch was recently recognized by the Bordentown Elks Lodge No.…

  • KINGWOOD: Rifle reported seen in truck near Kingwood school

    Police would like to hear from anyone near school between 2 and 3 p.m. Tuesday    State Police are investigating a report of a man with a long gun in a pickup at the Kingwood Township Elementary and Middle School on Route 519.    According to Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony Kearns III, “At 2:21 p.m. Tuesday, a…

  • PRINCETON: Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    PRINCETON: Princeton Packet Athlete of the Week

    Lopez-Ona delivers for PHS lacrosse By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Emilia Lopez-Ona is finally in her last year with the Princeton High School girls lacrosse team.    The PHS midfielder has been a starter and major contributor since she was a freshman, and now she is trying to exit with a big senior class that…

  • UPPER FREEHOLD: Map changes in advance of re-valuation discussed

    According to officials at the April 3 committee meeting, the township can either spend $14,000 now and approximately $55,000 later, or pay the whole sum sooner for the revisions. by Jane Meggitt, Special Writer UPPER FREEHOLD — The governing body must decide whether to finance map changes in advance of the township’s revaluation now or…

  • MANSFIELD: Students will walk for diabetes awareness

    MANSFIELD: Students will walk for diabetes awareness

    Landon Mack addresses his classmates as Ashley Trasser, a senior development coordinator with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, watches on. Photo by Amy Batista

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Girls track team places second at Skylands Relays

    They host Raider Relays on Saturday, April 19, with Penn Relays on tap the next week    The Hillsborough High School girls came one point away from making it two straight relay championship crowns in back-to-back weekends.    One week after winning the Somerset County Relays, the Raider girls track and field team finished one point behind…

  • WEST AMWELL: Local government share of tax rate would stay flat

    West Amwell introduces $3.5 million budget By John Tredrea, Special Writer    A proposed West Amwell Township budget for 2014 would bring no increase in the municipal property tax rate, if adopted.    Introduced Monday night by the Township Committee was a $3,547,330 budget, up $121,000 from last year’s budget of $3,428,855.    The budget will be scheduled…

  • LOOSE ENDS: Probing Princeton’s Palmer Square

    LOOSE ENDS: Probing Princeton’s Palmer Square

    Architect Jerry Ford looks for the motivation behind the creation By Pam Hersh    The renowned Princeton architect Jerry Ford, a founding partner of Ford3 Architects LLC of Princeton, calls himself an architect posing as a historian. I would call him an architect posing as a psychologist.    As he revealed in a Lunch-and-Learn Lecture earlier this…