Author: Central Jersey
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EAST WINDSOR: Lock em’ up
Submitted photo. Mayor Janice S. Mironov and Chief of Police Harry E. Marshall kickoff the Township Gun Safety Program. Free gun locks are distributed throughout March. Pictured (from left to right) are: Police Officer Robert Davison; Mayor Janice S. Mironov; Police Chief Harry E. Marshall, and Police Lt. Christopher Jackson.
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MANVILLE: Senior citizens club meet Thursday, March 12
Senior Corner column The Manville Senior Citizens meet at noon on the second Thursday of each month at the VFW on Washington Avenue. Residents of Manville age 50 and older are eligible for membership. Also, persons who do not remain residents of Manville are still eligible for membership. Membership has reopened for 2015. Canned goods…
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HILLSBOROUGH: Auctions raise $20,000 to aid Shoebox group
New Jersey Adjutant Brig. General Michael L. Cunniff emphasizes how important it is for deployed U.S. soldiers to receive care packages from Operation Shoebox New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Wiesner)
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HILLSBOROUGH: Auctions raise $20,000 to aid Shoebox group
Packages typically contain handwritten notes, Girl Scout cookies and maybe a toy for local kids.
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HILLSBOROUGH: Students earn dean’s list grades
Campus Corner Melissa Stept of Hillsborough was named to the dean’s list at Rutgers University School of Arts & Science Honors Program, in New Brunswick, for achievement during the fall semester, when she received a 4.0 GPA. Qualification for the dean’s list is determined by a semester grade-point average of 3.500 or better based on…
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Hightstown: Borough Id cards hacked
By Amy Batista, Special Writer HIGHTSTOWN — The police department is issuing new Borough employee identification cards after an incident last week where a man claimed he was an employee and entered a resident’s home. “In response to the recent incident, Hightstown Police Department Lt. (Frank) Gendron is working on preparing new identification cards for…
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LOOSE ENDS: Bringing harmony home
Ken Guilmartin uses music to help make lives better By Pam Hersh It had been 30 years since Ken Guilmartin and I got together. The passage of time increased my wrinkles, but never diminished his passion — passion for his work, that is. I interviewed Mr. Guilmartin, composer and music educator, in 1985 when he…
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Can too many solar panels cause undesired effect?
James X. Paterno, Belle Mead The Butterfly Effect, a staple of Chaos Theory, simply stated, is that, “a small change in one state of a deterministic system can result in large differences in a later state.” The writer proposes that a common practice that is growing rapidly as we seek “renewable” energy sources is…
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PRINCETON: Battlefield Society goes on the offensive (Updated)
Wages two-front legal campaign to stop proposed faculty housing project By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer The Princeton Battlefield Society will wage a two-front legal campaign to stop the Institute for Advanced Study from constructing 15 units of faculty housing. In Mercer County Superior Court, the historical group on Monday appealed a decision that the…
