Author: Central Jersey

  • Getting folksy to help kids: Peter Yarrow to headline benefit concert in Lawrenceville

    Getting folksy to help kids: Peter Yarrow to headline benefit concert in Lawrenceville

    By Mike Morsch    Chris Thern grew up listening to songs like “Puff, the Magic Dragon” and other hits by Peter, Paul and Mary.    So when the legendary folk group’s Peter Yarrow performed a benefit show about five years ago at Princeton High School, Ms. Thern took her then 3-year-old son and 8-month-old daughter to the…

  • HOPEWELL: Blake-Lester race highlights Election Day 

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Most political attention on Election Day Tuesday in Hopewell Valley will focus squarely on the race for one term on the Hopewell Township Committee. That’s where Harvey Lester, a Republican who is mayor for this year, faces Julie Blake, a high school counselor, for the three-year term. She is a…

  • EAST WINDSOR-HIGHTSTOWN: Group envisions new indoor youth sports complex

    EAST WINDSOR-HIGHTSTOWN: Group envisions new indoor youth sports complex

    By Mike Morsch, Executive editor When it rains in the spring and summer, youth baseball players have to stop playing baseball. It’s a sport that’s played outside, so that’s just the way that’s kind of always been. But some of the parents of the East Windsor and Hightstown ballplayers started thinking that there may be…

  • HOPEWELL: High school welcomes exchange students 

    HOPEWELL: High school welcomes exchange students 

    By Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — It seems like October is foreign-exchange-student month at Hopewell Valley Central High School, with high schoolers from France just departing, ones from Germany here for about a week and a group of 20 from Spain just arriving. The Spaniards donned the role of guests of honor at…

  • HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Stroll streets lighted by carved pumpkins 

    HOPEWELL BOROUGH: Stroll streets lighted by carved pumpkins 

    Hopewell Public Library will sponsor its third annual Pumpkins on Parade event on Friday, Oct. 30, (the night before Halloween). Everyone is invited to contribute a carved pumpkin, or come downtown and admire the show after dark. Imagine a line of carved, flickering pumpkins stretching down East Broad Street in Hopewell. Townspeople and visitors stroll…

  • HOPEWELL TWP.: Jessica Niederer named state’s outstanding young farmer of year

    HOPEWELL TWP.: Jessica Niederer named state’s outstanding young farmer of year

    By Frank Mustac, Special Writer HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP — She grows 40 different kinds of organic vegetables and fruits on 17 acres in town. She can fix a tractor. She has a trusty dog named Tilly, and now Jessica Niederer has been chosen as New Jersey’s Outstanding Young Farmer. State Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher was…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Governing body declines to state opinion on Duke home demolition

    HILLSBOROUGH: Governing body declines to state opinion on Duke home demolition

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Township Committee members refused Tuesday night to jump into the controversy over the imminent demolition of the long-closed home of the aristocratic Duke family. Not knowing if there was legal authority to intervene, the governing body asked Township Attorney William Willard to research the options. The leaders were asked to…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Ballfield honors Van Nest’s service 

    HILLSBOROUGH: Ballfield honors Van Nest’s service 

    By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor Sam VanNest gave time, money and friendship to Hillsborough for decades as a local businessman and volunteer planning and zoning boards member. Last week, the township made a tangible thank you to Mr. VanNest, who died in August 2007, and his family by naming Amsterdam Road baseball fields after him.…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Jr. Dukes teams advance in conference grid playoffs

    HILLSBOROUGH: Jr. Dukes teams advance in conference grid playoffs

    The Hillsborough Dukes Mitey Mite team romped, 33-0, over the Maplewood/South Orange this Sunday to finish their Jersey Valley Conference season. The Dukes reached the end zone on five different occasions Sunday. Cole Hayden and Jason Roser scored 1st-half touchdowns with Jack Moran adding a PAT run. In the 2nd half Hayden added two touchdowns…