Author: Central Jersey

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Rise needs help for Backpack Drive

    HIGHTSTOWN: Rise needs help for Backpack Drive

    By Amy Batista, Special Writer HIGHSTOWN — Rise is hosting its sixth annual Backpack Drive to provide children in need with the school supplies they need to start of school and is still seeking the community help. "The Backpack Drive enables Rise to strengthen our community and help the working families who struggle to provide…

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Aug. 29

    Join the South Brunswick Senior Center, in the Municipal Complex, Route 522, as September 2014 celebrations for Senior Center Month take place and we invite all adults 55+ who reside in South Brunswick to come and take a tour, attend the many special events planned this month and become a member. Thurs., Sept. 4 The…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Rise needs help for Backpack Drive

    HIGHTSTOWN: Rise needs help for Backpack Drive

    Konah Mustapha, 11, who is entering sixth grade, is one of the 96 children who received a backpack on the last day of the Rise Summer Academic Enrichment Program. 

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Fisher named full-time coach

    Interim last year takes over Ravens boys soccer By Bob Nuse, The Packet Group    Jeff Fisher went into his senior year of high school with high expectations on the soccer field and the baseball field.    But a severe knee injury suffered in the first scrimmage of the soccer season changed all that. And while Fisher…

  • MONROE: Crash kills Millstone woman

    MONROE: Crash kills Millstone woman

    Veterinary technician Rebecca Malter, 28, of Millstone died Tuesday night following a motorcycle accident in Monroe.  Photo from the HomeCare Veterinary Services staff web page

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Cart, car and AC unit reported stolen to police

    Three incidents of theft were reported to Hillsborough police on Aug. 12. A First Street resident told police that sometime overnight a Rubbermaid garden cart, valued at $80, was taken from the back yard. On Aug. 12 an air conditioning unit was reported stolen from a PschornLane home during the previous two weeks. Its value…

  • JAMESBURG: School sets schedule change

    JAMESBURG: School sets schedule change

    BY Jenine Clancy, Special Writer JAMESBURG — Grace M. Breckwedel Middle School will switch to block scheduling, Principal Chad Donahue announced at the school board meeting on Aug. 21. Mr. Donahue, who took over from former superintendent and principal Gail Verona, said the new scheduling will incorporate back-to-back classes that will be made up of…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Celebrating freedom

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Celebrating freedom

    Azra Baig photo. A dance team poses for a photo before performing at the annual IACFNJ Indian Indepen´dence Day celebration in Reichler Park on Sunday.

  • MANSFIELD: Fight leads to woman being stabbed

    By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor    A 23-year-old Bordentown woman has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly stabbing a 20-year-old woman at the Riverfront Motel.    The incident occurred at 8 p.m. Aug. 27 at 5303 Route 130, where police located the victim who had a stab wound to the upper portion of her torso…