Author: Central Jersey

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • MANVILLE: Hallmark store will close Feb. 24

    The Hallmark Gold Crown store in the Marketplace at Manville is closing its doors for good. By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer    Manville is losing another business in a few weeks. The Hallmark Gold Crown store in the Marketplace at Manville is closing its doors for good on Feb. 24. The store has been in…

  • POLICE BLOTTER: February 14

    Hamilton    Police charged Riccardo E. Toccaceli for shoplifting in the 700 block of Marketplace Boulevard on Jan. 30.    Police did not provide bail information or value of item(s) allegedly stolen as of press time.    In addition, police investigated a criminal mischief incident on Cheverny Court, an auto theft in the 1700 block of South Broad…

  • Cornerstone Music Studios Opens Camp Enrollment

    By Holly Deitz Cornerstone Music Studios is pleased to announce that summer camp registration is now open for all campers. For our younger campers, ages  5-8 years old we are pleased to announce we will once again be holding our “Storybook Series” summer camps.  The fairy tales are coming to life and there’s a part…

  • 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…