Author: Central Jersey

  • HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Thanks to all who made block party a success

    Deb Stuhler and Sandy Brown  We want to express our thanks to everyone who came out to the eighth annual Hopewell Borough block party on Saturday, May 30, and made it such a huge success. This year, close to 600 new and old friends gathered under the stars, shared stories, laughter, dancing, great food…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Lucky the Rescued Rooster right at home on Zion Road

    HILLSBOROUGH: Lucky the Rescued Rooster right at home on Zion Road

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Lucky the Rooster is living the high life. The chick rescued in May from a wastebasket in the Board of Education office is enjoying comfort and perks in a sylvan setting on Zion Road. It lives most of the time in a cage in a picture window of the living…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Assisted living facility OK’d for Route 206

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor     Planners have approved an assisted living center on Route 206 near the intersection with Old Somerville Road, despite concerns about future traffic problems.     Senior Housing Development LLC, of Jericho, N.Y., now has permission to build a 112-bed extended care facility on 8.69 acres at 351 Route 206 and…

  • SOURLAND CONSERVANCY NOTES: June 11

    SOURLAND CONSERVANCY NOTES: June 11

    The Sourland Conservancy will sponsor: June 11 to 13 will be Hopewell Valley Come Outside and Play, a Sourland scavenger hunt at Sourland Mountain Preserve, 235 Rileyville Road, Hopewell, 2.5 miles north of Railroad Place. Follow the wide, flat trail as it winds through a deciduous forest strewn with large boulders to find the items…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Open Air Theatre to stage ‘Dogfight’

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Open Air Theatre to stage ‘Dogfight’

    Next up at the Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre, “Dogfight” will be presented by the Once Upon A Time Players. Set for one weekend of performances, “Dogfight” will be performed Friday, June 12, Saturday, June 13, and Sunday, June 14, at 7:30 p.m. Based on the 1991 film of the same name, “Dogfight” is set…

  • PENNINGTON: 125th anniversary celebration continues

    PENNINGTON: 125th anniversary celebration continues

    Pennington Borough’s 125th anniversary celebration continues with a number of borough-wide events taking place throughout the summer. “Pennington Comes of Age” photographs by George H. Frisbie from the collection of the Hopewell Valley Historical Society are on exhibit on a rotating basis at the Pennington Borough Library. Pennington Borough Library has summer programming for children…

  • PRINCETON: Housing board recommends phasing out middle-income program

    PRINCETON: Housing board recommends phasing out middle-income program

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer A 22-year-old program that provides housing opportunities in Princeton to middle-income earners should be phased out, the Princeton Affordable Housing Board recommended Tuesday. Started in the former borough, the program involves 17 condominiums that are owned and occupied by people who meet income guidelines. “We’re trying to make sure…

  • HOPEWELL VALLEY: Student art sale to benefit Hopewell-Keroka Alliance

    HOPEWELL VALLEY: Student art sale to benefit Hopewell-Keroka Alliance

    Community members will have the opportunity to view and purchase limited-edition prints of personal artworks created by art students, alumni and associates of Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington during a first-ever jointly sponsored art sale through Friday, June 19. All net proceeds from this art sale — “Sharing Visions: Art Students for Kenya”…

  • HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Budget calls for 3.5-cent local tax increase

    HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Budget calls for 3.5-cent local tax increase

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer A Hopewell Borough budget for 2015 that will bring a municipal tax rate increase of 3½ cents per $100 of assessed property value was adopted by the Borough Council on June 4. The budget’s bottom line of $2,698,713 is down slightly from last year’s total of $2,699,706. It’s because the…