Author: Central Jersey

  • Bravura Philarmonic & Golandsky Instititute Present “Magnificent Masterworks”

    Bravura Philarmonic & Golandsky Instititute Present “Magnificent Masterworks”

    By E von Autenried The award-winning Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, led by music director and conductor Chiu-Tze Lin, will perform a concert, Magnificent Masterworks, on Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 7:00 pm at Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. This concert will feature 28-year old pianist, Nathaniel LaNasa, who will perform the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2.    It…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: $1 million hugs (VIDEO)
  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: VIKING VIBE

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: VIKING VIBE

    Submitted photo. The Vikings Marching Band won second place during its national competition in the mead´owlands earlier this year.

  • Historic memories

    Historic memories

    Danny Lyon’s photographs at the college of New Jersey tell stories of the Civil Rights Movement By Bernadette Suski-Harding During the summer between his junior and senior years at the University of Chicago, Danny Lyon, a skinny, curly-haired, white kid born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, packed an Army bag with two cameras and…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Police arrest alleged tot bandit’s mom
  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: $1 million hugs (VIDEO)

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: $1 million hugs (VIDEO)

    Local charity passes milestone By Nicole M. Wells, Special Writer SOMERSET — Tissues were passed around and people reached for napkins as Sherrie Wells spoke through the emotion coloring her voice and shared a memory of her baby son. “If Brady were by my side right here tonight, I know he would simply hand you…

  • Therapy Dog Earns Special Title for Service

    Therapy Dog Earns Special Title for Service

    By Sandra K. Lee Miki is more than just a pretty face. He is a hard-working volunteer and after making more than 400 visits to various facilities as a certified therapy dog, this pint-sized pooch received the Distinguished Therapy Dog title from the American Kennel Club. This award is bestowed on dogs who have worked to improve the…

  • Support bill to impose moratorium on light wood-frame apartment housing

    Princeton residents     We ask that you voice support for Bill A4195 — recently introduced into the state Legislature by Assemblyman Scott Rumana (R) — that, if enacted, would impose a moratorium — for up to 2 years — on the construction in New Jersey of light wood frame multi-story apartment housing.     The official…

  • SOLUTIONS: Author Wilson offers hope for our future

    By Huck Fairman     “Only three or four books in a life time,” Proust said through his character Swann in “Remembrance of Things Past”, “give us anything that is of real importance.”     While Edward O. Wilson, author of “The Meaning of Human Existence,” is biologist, naturalist, professor emeritus at Harvard, and two-time Pulitzer Prize…