Author: Central Jersey

  • MONTGOMERY: Girls Swimmer of the Year

    MONTGOMERY: Girls Swimmer of the Year

    In her first year with the team, junior Julia Bland helped the Montgomery High girls swim team win a state championship. Photo by Elane Coleman

  • Campaign aims at ending talking, texting while driving

    Raymond P. Martinez, New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission     We’ve all seen the random car that seems to be holding up traffic for no apparent reason. We’ve also witnessed cars weaving back and forth over their lane markings because the driver’s eyes are not on the road. More times than not, the drivers of these…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Agriculture Department nutrition staff works at assisting families

    ROBBINSVILLE: Agriculture Department nutrition staff works at assisting families

    Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Pat Dombroski, back right, and New Jersey Depart´ment of Health commissioner, Mary E. O’Dowd, back left, observe Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) social service specialist, Kathleen Gaffney, left, conduct a nutrition class with a WIC mother and her daughter at the Mercer County WIC office.

  • Living in the city

    Living in the city

    The photo collage “Chicago 1969” by Kenneth Josephson is part of an exhibit about cities at the Princeton University Art Museum.

  • PRINCETON: Animal control officer not ‘terminated,’ but ‘separated’ from employment

    By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer Princeton animal control officer Mark Johnson was “terminated,” the town said Monday only later to clarify that he was “separated” from his employment. At Mayor Liz Lempert’s press conference, administrator Marc D. Dashield felt it inappropriate to discuss a personnel matter in the public, only offering that Mr. Johnson…

  • MILLSTONE: Weather delays causeway bridge reopening

    MILLSTONE: Weather delays causeway bridge reopening

    Millstone Mayor Raymond Heck has been monitoring repair work on the canal daily. His DPW workers even plowed the open roadway so people could walk from the western side to reach the canal for daily constitutionals.

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Fire damages vehicles at Public Works facility

    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Fire damages vehicles at Public Works facility

    On March 7 at approximately 10:15 p.m., the Hopewell Township Police Department, along with the Pennington Fire Company, went to the Hopewell Township Public Works building on Washington Crossing-Pennington Road (Route 546) to investigate a report of a fire alarm, according to township police Chief Lance D. Maloney. Officer Robert Voorhees arrived at the building,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Burchette, Suraci will seek new terms

    HILLSBOROUGH: Burchette, Suraci will seek new terms

    Republicans announce ticket for local government Deputy Mayor Greg Burchette and Township Committeeman Carl Suraci were nominated unopposed and endorsed unanimously to carry the Republican Party banner in the June primary by the local Republican county committee and club on March 3. About 40 Hillsborough Republicans braved a snow and ice storm for the screening…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Porreca, Maher relish experience

    Wrestlers finish seasons at TOC By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Nick Maher and Vinny Porreca may not have taken the podium finishes that they wanted, but both area wrestlers got plenty out of their first trips to the Tournament of Champions.    Porreca made a resilient exit to his scholastic career after positioning himself for…