Author: Central Jersey

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: $1 million hugs (VIDEO)
  • MONROE: BOE hears parents’ PARCC concerns

    MONROE: BOE hears parents’ PARCC concerns

    Students won’t be punished for opting out of testing By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor MONROE — Students opting out of next month’s Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) testing should not have to “sit and stare,” district officials said Wednesday. District Acting Superintendent Dennis Ventrello said that the schools would…

  • 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…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Arrest made in Princeton Junction bank robbery

    By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Staff Writer WEST WINDSOR — Tips and surveillance videos have led to the arrest of a man suspected in robbing the Chase Bank in Princeton Junction on Jan. 23. Andre McBride, 38, of Ewing, was charged with robbing the bank while in custody at the Hamilton Police Department on an outstanding warrant.…

  • CRANBURY: Local responders describe fatal Turnpike crash scene

    CRANBURY: Local responders describe fatal Turnpike crash scene

    Emergency crews from throughout the area responded to a major car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike Monday night.

  • 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…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Growth means Arts Council needs more room

    By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Staff Writer     WEST WINDSOR — The West Windsor Arts Center is currently facing a challenge — space has become too limited.     The West Windsor Township Arts Council operates and manages the West Windsor Arts Center in the historic Princeton Junction Firehouse.     “This summer I did work on the patio…