Author: Central Jersey

  • REGION: Prank 911 call yields charges

    Christian Lamberty, 23, of Elizabeth is charged with making a false public alarm and making terroristic threats after he allegedly called police to report a gunman in the Argix Direct warehouse on Halloween, according by Charles W. Kim, Packet Media Group SOUTH BRUNSWICK — Police didn’t find anything funny about a prank 911 call reporting…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: A day to remember those who served

    HILLSBOROUGH: A day to remember those who served

    An estimated 35 veterans attended Monday morning’s assembly at the Triangle School (Photo courtesy of Kia Bergman)

  • 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…

  • CAPITOL NEWS AND COMMENT

    The following items are taken from reports issued by legislators and other items of political concern. Minimum wage    Assembly Speaker Sheila Y. Oliver, Assemblyman Tim Eustace and Assemblywoman L. Grace Spencer hailed the approval of a referendum by New Jersey voters that will increase the state’s minimum hourly wage to $8.25 per hour with annual…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Run will assist Special Olympics

    Jared Miller, an eighth grader at Pond Road Middle School , is set to host the second annual Black Friday Fun Run on Nov. 29, according to the township website. ROBBINSVILLE — For the second year in a row, a township youth invites the community to participate in a fun run to benefit Special Olympics…

  • MANVILLE: Kids can compete Nov. 23 in shooting free throws

    First level of Elks tournament will be held at Weston School    The Manville-Hillsborough Elks will sponsor its 42nd annual free throw shooting contest at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23, in the gymnasium of Weston Elementary School, 600 Newark Ave., Manville.    The event is free of charge. If the participant is successful enough to move…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Don’t Toss It boutique opens as a shop for ‘creative reuse’

    Have a box full of buttons or a drawer full of costume jewelry taking up space?   Don’t toss it — repurpose it.    LAMBERTVILLE — Have a box full of buttons or a drawer full of costume jewelry taking up space?    Don’t toss it — repurpose it.    A new store, called Don’t Toss It, has opened at…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: ‘Routine’ stop nabs wanted man