Author: Central Jersey

  • 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…

  • REGION: Class builds snow shelter

    Armed with shovels of all sizes and colors, a mixed group of kids and adults tackled a small, square plot of snow in the Plainsboro Preserve. by Charley Falkenburg, Special Writer PLAINSBORO — Armed with shovels of all sizes and colors, a mixed group of kids and adults tackled a small, square plot of snow…

  • 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…

  • PLUMSTED: Lifesavers honored by officials

    PLUMSTED: Lifesavers honored by officials

    Family also gives thanks to first responders for lifesaving efforts. by James McEvoy, Managing Editor PLUMSTED — The evening of Dec. 3 Suzanne Cammerano sent her daughter Emily Straneiro to let her husband Scott know that dinner was ready.    Ms. Straneiro, who was visiting for the holidays from Richmond, found her father unconscious in the…

  • State’s residents deserve clean water

    Jennifer Coffey, Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Assoc. In just the second month of 2014, dirty water reports are an all too common occurrence with a major chemical spill in West Virginia last month and a major coal ash laden with mercury, lead, and arsenic spilling just upstream of drinking water intake pipes last week in North…

  • MANVILLE: Senior center to close on Monday for holiday

       The Manville Senior Center at the Fire Company No. 1 at 20 So. Third Ave. will be closed Monday, Feb. 17, for the President’s Day holiday.    The senior center is normally open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m.    A suggested lunch donation of $2 is recommended for individuals age 60 and older. The cost of lunch for…

  • REGION: Class builds snow shelter

    Armed with shovels of all sizes and colors, a mixed group of kids and adults tackled a small, square plot of snow in the Plainsboro Preserve. by, Charley Falkenburg Special Writer PLAINSBORO — Armed with shovels of all sizes and colors, a mixed group of kids and adults tackled a small, square plot of snow…

  • CAPITOL NEWS & COMMENT: February 14

    The following items are taken from reports issued by legislators and other items of political concern. Casinos    Legislation Assembly Democrats Celeste Riley and Troy Singleton sponsored to require casinos to install and maintain security cameras in every stairwell throughout casino hotel facility has been advanced by an Assembly committee.    ”The purpose of this bill is…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Reminder: Valley has elections Saturday

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    Proposed 2014 fire district budgets and fire commission candidates will go before the voters this Saturday, when fire district elections will be held statewide.    In Hopewell Valley, where fire districting was instituted in 1987, each of the three municipalities — Hopewell Township, Hopewell Borough and Pennington Borough — is also…