Author: Central Jersey

  • Re-elected GOP: Work with us enact reforms

    Christopher ‘Kip’ Bateman, Jack M. Ciattarelli, Donna Simon Having won the election on Nov. 5, we want to say we are honored to once again serve the citizens of the 16th Legislative District, which includes Stockton in Hunterdon County.    Campaigning throughout the district for the past five months provided the perfect opportunity to share a…

  • COUNTY: Updated airport terminal facility unveiled

    County officials and other dignitaries celebrated the grand opening of the renovated terminal at Trenton-Mercer Airport with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week. EWING — County officials and other dignitaries celebrated the grand opening of the renovated terminal at Trenton-Mercer Airport with a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week.    Frontier Airlines, the airport’s only commercial carrier, resumed operations…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Remembering a great speech 150 years later

    Lincoln speech at Gettysburg was short but powerful    We pause as writers, history buffs and Americans to remember the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s address on Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, battlefield that was the site of a massive slaughter that most historians agree represents the final turning of…

  • CAROLYN DORFMAN ANNOUNCES NEW COMPANY DANCERS

    CAROLYN DORFMAN ANNOUNCES NEW COMPANY DANCERS

    By irene maslowski The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company (www.cddc.info) is pleased to announce the addition of four new dancers, who have joined CDDC for the 2013-2014 season along with returning dancers Associate Artistic Director, Jacqueline Dumas Albert, Caroline Dietz, Ashleigh Hunter, Brandon Jones, Ae-Soon Kim, Louie Marin, and Katlyn Waldo Jenny Gillan-Powell, originally from Scotland,…

  • COUNTY: Race to benefit food pantry

    The Burlington Township Food Pantry is hosting its fourth annual “Race for the Hungry Holiday 5K” race to raise funds for needy families on Saturday, Dec. 7. The Burlington Township Food Pantry is hosting its fourth annual “Race for the Hungry Holiday 5K” race to raise funds for needy families on Saturday, Dec. 7.    According…

  • LAWRENCE: Men charged after burning flag

    Three men were charged with two counts each of criminal mischief after a police officer on patrol noticed a small fire in the parking lot outside the Halo Farms store on Spruce Street at 4:32 a.m. Nov. 10, accordin By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Three men were charged with two counts each of criminal mischief…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Dukes cheerleaders are state, conference champs

    HILLSBOROUGH: Dukes cheerleaders are state, conference champs

    Building a formation at the Jersey Valley Conference championship, the Hillsborough Dukes Jr. Midget squad captured first place on Oct. 14. Adapting to a last-minute injury, the squad performed well enough to place as runnerup at the Eastern Region on Nov. 3.

  • REGION: Skype connects Jews for Kristallnacht anniversary

    Technology allows for timeless lessons to be learned by Lea Kahn, Packet Media Group Walter Israel should have been celebrating his bar mitzvah — the religious ceremony that marks a Jewish boy’s entry into adulthood — on Nov. 9, 1938.    Instead, Walter and his family — along with thousands of other Jews across Germany and…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: November 14

    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. Fri., Nov. 15    The New Egypt Elks will host a handbag bingo at 7:30…