Author: Central Jersey

  • PRINCETON: Snyderman to moderate chamber’s health care discussion

    PRINCETON: Snyderman to moderate chamber’s health care discussion

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Former NBC News chief medical editor and Princeton resident Dr. Nancy Snyderman will moderate a discussion of area healthcare CEOs next month, in what will be her first major public appearance since the controversy that erupted over her violating an Ebola quarantine last fall. Ms. Snyderman will be participating…

  • MONTGOMERY: Development calls for 148 houses

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — The developer of the proposed Country Club Meadows single-family-home subdivision and the proposed Belle Mead Plaza strip shopping center will have to wait until next month to find out if the Planning Board will approve its application. Country Club Meadows LLC, which is based in Woodbridge, walked the…

  • MONTGOMERY: Sugden won’t seek re-election to Township Committee

    BY Lea Kahn, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — Citing increased work responsibilities, Township Committeeman Chris Sugden has decided not to seek re-election to Township Committee and has asked that his name be removed from the Nov. 3 general election ballot. Former Township Committeeman Mark Conforti has been chosen to replace Mr. Sugden on the ballot, and…

  • PLAINSBORO: Public works employees to receive 2 percent raises

    PLAINSBORO: Public works employees to receive 2 percent raises

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer PLAINSBORO — The Township’s Department of Public Works employees will receive a 2 percent salary hike, under the terms of a salary ordinance adopted by Township Committee last week. Township Committee held a public hearing and gave final approval to the ordinance Aug. 12. It had been introduced last month,…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Parking issues fill hearing on mixed used Maneely plan

    WEST WINDSOR: Parking issues fill hearing on mixed used Maneely plan

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — Having run out of time and with testimony yet to be heard from its own professional staff, the Planning Board has scheduled a third public hearing for Toll Brothers’ mixed-use development proposed for Bear Brook Road at Old Bear Brook Road. The Planning Board expects to hear…

  • SOLUTIONS: Making better choices through yoga

    SOLUTIONS: Making better choices through yoga

    By Huck Fairman  Princeton resident, founder and lead instructor at YogaStream on Spring Street, Lara Heimann has long sought to combine her interests in anatomy, creative movement, positive thinking, harmony, and the world. And she has succeeded, by creating yoga with a difference — indeed a yoga revolution. Her approach is to see yoga…

  • MONTGOMERY: Township returns to list of state’s safest cities

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer MONTGOMERY — Montgomery Township ranks seventh among the top 50 safest cities in New Jersey and 32nd in the top 100 safest cities in the United States for 2015, according to www.safewise.com. This is the second year in a row that Montgomery Township has made Safewise’s list as one of…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Police set to crack down on impaired drivers

    By Lea Kahn. Staff Writer Lawrence Township and South Brunswick Township police officers are joining their counterparts statewide as they take part in the annual Labor Day “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign, which runs from Aug. 21 to Sept. 7. Police are going to conduct sobriety checkpoints and roving patrols, looking for motorists…

  • PRINCETON POLICE BLOTTER: Aug. 20

    PRINCETON POLICE BLOTTER: Aug. 20

     Edward Conover, 45, of Plainsboro Township, was arrested on an outstanding $250 warrant from Princeton Municipal Court at 9 a.m. Aug. 13 at the Princeton Police Department headquarters after being turned over by the Plainsboro Police Department.   Tameka Johnson, 30, of Trenton, was arrested on an outstanding $500 warrant from Bordentown City…