Author: Central Jersey

  • MANVILLE: Club at library stitches friendships and afghans

    MANVILLE: Club at library stitches friendships and afghans

    By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer Libraries hold books and information, but also are community centers. Winess the Crochet Club and Knitting Too, which meets on the last Wednesday of the month in the Manville Public Library’s community room. Resident Catherine Spinola took her passion for the craft she has been doing at the age…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Holiday tree, menorah take cues via Twitter

    LAMBERTVILLE: Holiday tree, menorah take cues via Twitter

    Maddie Horvath, of Oxford Communications, controls the Lambertville company’s holiday tree and menorah with commands sent via Twitter. She could change colors of the bulbs, or make them blink, or turn the electricity off.

  • HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Police Blotter

    Hopewell Township police Lt. Christopher Kascik reported: — On Dec. 12 at 10 a.m., Detective Michael Sherman charged a 17-year-old boy, from Pennington, with the theft of an iPad from the Hopewell Valley Central High School. The investigation began weeks earlier when the stolen iPad was sold on eBay to another individual. During the investigation,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: How did it come to be the ‘cops versus people’?

    Letter to the editor To the editor: Following the deaths of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu and the response to them from the public, it seems that the relationship between police and the people they serve needs to be re-examined and mended (something that is long overdue, if we’re being honest.)…

  • MANVILLE: Catalytic converters reported stolen

    Police blotter, week of Dec. 15-21 Two catalytic converters were reported stolen from vehicles in the parking lot of Derek’s Auto Service on South Main St. at 11:37 a.m. Dec. 16. They were valued at $1,400. — Police checked the area of Kennedy Boulevard when a caller reported hearing sound effect noises like a jingle…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Jan. 2

    Wednesdays       Free Acoustic Open Mic Night and Poetry at Star Subs and Café in the Buckley Plaza 621 Route 130, Hamilton, will be hosted Wednesdays at 7 p.m. by American Idol contestant Bri Lobue. Audience and musicians are welcome. 609-333- 1230.  First Sun. of the month      Sons of the…

  • MANVILLE: Community calendar, issue of Jan. 1

    Sat., Jan. 3 Borough government: Annual reorganization meeting, 11 a.m. in Borough Hall, North Main Street. Tues., Jan. 6 School board: Reorganization and swearing-in of newly elected members for 3-year terms. 7 p.m. ABIS media center. Wed., Jan. 14 Slavic dinner: St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church holds monthly dinner, 4 to 7 p.m., St. Mary…

  • Non-Profit Hospice Offers Higher Level of Care and Services

    Non-Profit Hospice Offers Higher Level of Care and Services

    Sara Culang, Manager of Community Outreach & Volunteer Services at Stein Hospice

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Teen delivers gifts for youngsters to say, ‘I’m thinking of you today’

    HILLSBOROUGH: Teen delivers gifts for youngsters to say, ‘I’m thinking of you today’

    Hillsborough teen Brooke Lautt, second from left, delivers her gifts to the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro pediatric clinic staff. From left are nurse practitioner Karen O’Brien, pediatrician Janet Ginsberg, registered nurse Mary Ellen Finn and Debbie Hopkins, certified medical aide. The gifts went to the Bristol Myers Squibb Community Health Clinic and…