Author: Central Jersey

  • NJ Residents Prepare for First-Ever Statewide Celebration of Maker Culture

    By Doug Baldwin The maker movement in the United States isn’t just a hobby; it’s having a significant impact on school curriculum development and growing local economies. To celebrate making, innovation, manufacturing and maker culture, residents throughout New Jersey will come together on Saturday, March 21, 2015 in over 145 community locations across all 21…

  • LAWRENCE: Major crime rate drops by 15 percent
  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Police Blotter

    March 12, 2015 Hopewell Township police Lt. Chris Kascik reported: — On Feb. 26 at 10:08 p.m., Officer Nicholas Sparaco went to Route 31 near Delaware Avenue to check out a report of an erratic driver in a white Cadillac. The officer located the vehicle and spoke with the driver, identified as Justin J. Maldonado,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Police investigating Monday morning crash

    HILLSBOROUGH: Police investigating Monday morning crash

    A Lincoln Continental driven by a Middlesex man crashed Tuesday at 6:34 a.m. into a utility pole on Amwell Road near Woodfern Road. (Photo courtesy of the Flemington-Raritan Rescue Squad)

  • LAWRENCE: Web search leads to charge of prostitution

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer Deonia Brown, 33, of Neptune, has been charged with engaging in prostitution after a police officer, who was pro-actively checking a website that offers personal services, recognized her photograph on the website from prior investigations, according to the Lawrence Township Police Department.     The police officer, who was conducting “pro-active…

  • ALLENTOWN: Redbirds finish special season

    By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    The Allentown High School girls basketball team’s Central Jersey Group III semifinal loss to Neptune on Monday was tough for Alissa and Christa Lebers.    The Redbirds twin sisters are not accustomed to losing, and the seniors had hoped to go out with a state crown. Neptune ended that hope…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: College students earn academic honors

    Campus Corner column Sarah E. Limyansky of Hillsborough was named to the President’s List at Clemson (S.C.) University for the fall semester. Sarah is majoring in psychology. To be named, a student must achieve a 4.0 (all As) grade-point average. — Molly Cowan of Hillsborough was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester…

  • My position: ‘I will not negotiate with carbon’

    Jean Harrington, Hopewell Borough I have been thinking of an energy resource that’s going to waste, the Earth. Down about 4 feet, it’s a constant 54 degrees. In some places, it’s even warmer, such as the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, where it is 57 degrees, because it’s over water. I read, at the same time, that…

  • LAWRENCE: Justic Sumners re-nominated to Superior Court bench

        Judge Thomas W. Sumners Jr., who lives in Lawrence Township, has been nominated for reappointment to Mercer County state Superior Court by Gov. Chris Christie, according to a press release issued by the Governor’s Office.     Gov. Christie made the nomination to the State Senate. Judicial nominations are subject to the advice and consent…