Author: Central Jersey

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: February 13

    Wednesdays    Free Acoustic Open Mic Night and Poetry at Star Subs and Café in the Buckley Plaza 621 Route 130, Hamilton, will be hosted Wednesdays at 7 p.m. by American Idol contestant Bri Lobue. Audience and musicians are welcome. 609-333- 1230. Wednesdays Feb. 19, & 26    Volunteers from AARP will offer Tax Help at Robbinsville…

  • PLUMSTED BRIEFS: February 13

    With spring around the corner registrations are now open for New Egypt baseball.    Registrations came be done online at www.newegyptbaseball.com. Registration deadline is Sunday, Feb. 9. Opening day is scheduled for Saturday, April 5 at 9 a.m.    Among new offerings for the 2014 season is interleague play with the Allentown/Upper Freehold League. Interleague games will…

  • Olympic skeleton event set for Friday

    Olympic skeleton event set for Friday

    Lambertville’s Kyle Tress will begin competing in the Olympic skeleton racing events Friday.    If the schedule of events at the 2014 Winter Olympics proceeds as planned, Lambertville’s Kyle Tress will begin competing in the skeleton racing events tomorrow, Friday.    For at least two weeks now, a banner bearing the name, Kyle Tress, in big red…

  • LAWRENCE: Sassaman named Teacher of Year

    LAWRENCE: Sassaman named Teacher of Year

    Lisa Sassaman was teaching her second-period math class at Lawrence Middle School when she looked up to see Superintendent of Schools Crystal Edwards and Director of Personnel Rebecca Gold, along with Principal Min By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Lisa Sassaman was teaching her second-period math class at Lawrence Middle School when she looked up to…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Carone, Vatter competing for fire commission seat
  • ROBBINSVILLE: Students ring in Chinese New Year

    ROBBINSVILLE: Students ring in Chinese New Year

    It might be the year of the horse, according to the Chinese zodiac, but it was dragons and lions dancing among students and administrators as the Robbinsville High School Chinese Classes and Club hosted its by Amy Batista, Special Writer ROBBINSVILLE — It might be the year of the horse, according to the Chinese zodiac,…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: DelVecchio: Everyone should recycle

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — The last year has seen a marked increase in the amount of recycling collected in Lambertville.    That’s good news from both environmental and fiscal standpoints, city officials said.    ”Reducing the amount we send to a landfill while increasing what we can recycle is a combination that is sound…

  • A winter quest

    Joe Shoemaker, Lambertville The snowy puffs adorning the trees like cotton in fields they seem    As after a storm that made them there passes so quick and clean    It is the Polar Vortex weather forecasters say the chill from frosty place    Punxsutawney Phil offered no defense a shadow in witnessed space    Shackleton like roaming snow…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Three charged with DUI, police say

    Three arrests for driving under the influence were reported by Hillsborough police in the last two weeks.    Three arrests for driving under the influence were reported by Hillsborough police in the last two weeks.    Stanislaw Toporowski, 62, of Manville was charged after his vehicle was involved in an accident on Millstone River Road on Jan.…