Author: Central Jersey

  • 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. 

  • SPRINGFIELD HAPPENINGS: March 12, 2015

       The Northern Burlington Band Boosters is having its first Comedy Night on Friday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. in the Rutgers ECO Complex, 1200 Columbus Road, Columbus.    Tickets are $25 and include the three comedians show and dessert.    Tickets can be purchased at [email protected] or by calling or texting Mary Wolverton at 609-635-0927 or Doug…

  • 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

  • HAMILTON: A rising star team

    HAMILTON: A rising star team

    Lauryn Wilfing (kneeling), of Hamilton, poses with the rest of The Schafer Gymnastics Rising Star Special Olympics Team. 

  • 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…

  • COLUMBUS CORNER: March 5

        The Mansfield Township School District has begun its annual kindergarten round-up process for the 2015-16 school year.     Children must be 5 years of age on or before Oct. 1 in order to enroll in kindergarten for the upcoming school year.     Call Beth Pigott at 609-298-2037 ext. 2010 for a registration packet. …

  • 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…