Author: Central Jersey

  • Alum Jesse Herrera to Bike Across Country for MCCC

    Alum Jesse Herrera to Bike Across Country for MCCC

    By Wendy Humphrey Trenton native Jesse Herrera will set off on his bike April 19 to ride across America. He will leave the city with far more than adventure on his mind. Herrera will be giving back to his historic hometown by raising money for Mercer County Community College (MCCC). After graduating from Hamilton High School West,…

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Darrow Drive residents back in house after fire

    Damage limited to the rear exterior of house and a small portion of dining room Ruth Luse    The Hopewell Township Police Department, along with the Hopewell Fire Department, went to a residence on Darrow Drive, in Princeton Farms, in response to a report of a structure fire at 11:03 p.m. Thursday.    Officers arrived to find…

  • 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

  • SOUTH COUNTY: South Hunterdon school merger success to be explored at forum

    Statewide forum is May 2 in Holmdel     How South Hunterdon’s four school boards worked together for six years to create one unified school district will be the topic for a statewide forum on Friday, May 2, at the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel.    The program, presented by Courage to Connect New Jersey (CtoCNJ),…

  • 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…

  • LOOSE ENDS: Probing Princeton’s Palmer Square

    LOOSE ENDS: Probing Princeton’s Palmer Square

    A view of the area now occupied by Princeton’s Palmer Square with Princeton University in the background.

  • WEST WINDSOR: Pirates’ Schoenauer adjusts well to switch to track

    WEST WINDSOR: Pirates’ Schoenauer adjusts well to switch to track

    By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Kathryn Schoenauer gave indoor track and field a try to get in shape for lacrosse.    Now lacrosse likely won’t ever get the West Windsor-Plainsboro South sophomore back.    ”I ended up enjoying track so much and the atmosphere of the South team,” Schoenauer said. “It was very surprising.”    It didn’t…