Author: Central Jersey

  • WEST WINDSOR: Boys Simmer of the Year

    WEST WINDSOR: Boys Simmer of the Year

    West Windsor-Plainsboro High South’s Kurt Von Autenried helped the Pirates to a 14-2 season and a win in the medley relay at the Mercer County meet. Photo by John Blaine

  • EDITORIAL: Winter leaves its scars

    Congratulations. We’ve done it.     At least we hope we have survived the last of this winter’s storms,     As the remnants of those storms recede into the ground, with Daylight Saving Time already under way, and the first day of spring just a week away, it seems pretty safe to believe we can at…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: March 12, 2015

    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. Call 609-333- 1230. First Sunday of the month    Sons of the American Legion Squadron 455 monthly…

  • MANSFIELD: Township on schedule to resurface White Pine Road

    MANSFIELD: Township on schedule to resurface White Pine Road

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer    MANSFIELD — Township Engineer Timothy Staszewski says Mansfield still is on schedule for resurfacing White Pine Road.    He made the announcement during the committee meeting Feb. 25.    The scope of the project is to conduct a full-depth roadway reconstruction and widening to 22 feet in order to comply with American…

  • PHS PERSPECTIVE: The pros and cons of those lazy winter days
  • HAMILTON: RIHA has grand marshal, Irish Person of Year fete

    HAMILTON: RIHA has grand marshal, Irish Person of Year fete

    Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo, and his wife, Toni, with their youngest daughter, Julia, who will be Miss St Patrick 2015 for Hamilton. The parade steps off Saturday at 1 p.m. 

  • NEW EGYPT: Cottage Cafe helps prepare special students for their future

    NEW EGYPT: Cottage Cafe helps prepare special students for their future

    Kim Taylor, right, 18, hands off marshmallows to Daralynne McCaughey, 16, both from New Egypt, at the school’s Cot´tage Cafe. Photo by Rebecca Nowalski

  • Community Survey on Somerset County Website

    By Somerset County Board of Freeholders Somerset County Freeholder Director Mark Caliguire invites county residents, commuters, students, businesses and community organizations to provide comments and suggestions as the county prepares to redesign its website (www.co.somerset.nj.us). “Our website has a wealth of information about county services and programs,” Freeholder Director Caliguire said.  “We’re planning to not…

  • Give Iran diplomacy a chance to work

    Ed Aguilar, Philadelphia     The following is an open letter to New Jersey and Pennsylvania senators on Iran negotiations: It seems that some 47 U.S. senators don’t quite get the Constitution’s separation of powers on foreign policy. What’s more, they seem to fear a peaceful deal to prevent nuclear proliferation in Iran, more than they…