Author: Central Jersey

  • LAMBERTVILLE/NEW HOPE: Marriage equality is Pride Parade focus

       Officials are celebrating the history of the bridge connecting New Hope and Lambertville. Next month the structure will serve as a social and political metaphor.    The two communities are celebrating the 200th anniversary of a bridge spanning the Delaware River. On Saturday, May 17, the bridge will be used as a symbol to spur the…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Paramount girl gymnasts compete in state meet

       Hillsborough Paramount athletes enjoyed a busy couple of weeks of USA Gymnastics competition.    The girls competed at the Twilight Knight Meet on March 8-9 at Rutgers.    In Level 7, Emma Thompson, competing in the 12-year-old age group, captured second place on bars (9.1), 5th on beam (8.925) and 4th place all around with a score…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Township set to buy 10 acres of open space

    ROBBINSVILLE: Township set to buy 10 acres of open space

    Officials also announce upgraded bond rating by James McEvoy, Managing Editor ROBBINSVILLE — The township is moving forward to purchase a land situated between two Robbinsville parks on Meadowbrook Road.    An ordinance was introduced unanimously at the April 10 council meeting to authorize the purchase, which will be done through open space funds, according to…

  • HAMILTON: RWJ earns national recognition

    HAMILTON: RWJ earns national recognition

    The hospital’s intense focus on orthopedic care over the past five years mirrors the growing prevalence for joint replacement procedures in the U.S. and has led it to establish the Center for Orthopedic & Spine H HAMILTON — Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton has earned the Joint Commission’s certification for hip and knee replacement,…

  • MANVILLE: Dividing East and West Jersey 350 years was our first subdivision

    The State We’re In column By Michele Byers, N.J. Conservation Foundation    Three hundred fifty years ago, a British royal decree created New Jersey’s first “subdivision,” the provinces of East Jersey and West Jersey.    But the Duke of York, who gave the land to two loyal friends, didn’t explain how to divide it.    That job fell…

  • Mark Parker, Author of the New Book Integrity, Examines Decline of Character and Ethics in Government and Society

    Mark Parker, Author of the New Book Integrity, Examines Decline of Character and Ethics in Government and Society

    By 1888pressrelease (1888 PressRelease) This new book from Mark Parker examines the current state of character, ethics and morals in our society. Integrity is a new book from Mark Parker that casts a critical eye on the current state of character, ethics and morals. His premise is that these qualities are in decline among governmental,…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Police blotter

       — The Hopewell Township Police Department and the Pennington Fire Company went to the Princeton Community Church, corner of Pennington Road and Brandon Road West, to investigate a report of a structure fire at 1:46 a.m. Saturday.    According to Chief Lance D. Maloney, the fire was called in by a passing motorist, who was traveling…

  • Ribbon Cutting Ceremony!

    European Wax Center in Warren European Wax Center in Warren Would like to invite YOU to our Ribbon Cutting Ceremony! We are under new ownership! (Warren, NJ)  The European Wax Center in Warren would like to announce we are under NEW OWNERSHIP!  To celebrate our new ownership join us for a ribbon cutting ceremony!  Friday…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Beggiato, Le put fate in hands of the public

    To the editor:    I am compelled to respond to Sonya Martin’s letter with its classic contradiction in terms: her need for a so-called “Democratic” Party to “screen” its candidates for office.    To me, “democratic” procedure speaks to a petition process and open primary in which any or all members of a party who seek to…