Category: archives

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Celebrity-obsessed media’s roots to be explored

    Lots to do at the public library    Mark DiIonno will discuss his book, “The Last Newspaperman,” based on the Lindbergh baby kidnapping of 1932, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, in the Hillsborough Library in the municipal complex on South Branch Road.    Mr. DiIonno will explore how reporting has become the crime-saturated and celebrity-obsessed media…

  • ROBBINSVILLE: Testa, Ravens keep improving

    Girls tennis has bright future By Justin Feil, The Packet Group    Nicole Testa had hoped to move up in the Robbinsville High School girls tennis lineup, but never expected to jump this high.    The sophomore played second doubles for the Ravens last year, and she won the third singles spot in the lineup to start…

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Schools turn how to make merger work

    After historic vote, decisions on buildings, contracts need to be made By John Tredrea, Special Writer    Now that the two referendum questions on merging the Stockton, West Amwell, Lambertville and South Hunterdon Regional High School districts into one pre-k to grade 12 district have been overwhelmingly approved, the process of implementing the regionalization can begin.…

  • MANVILLE: Silhouette reminds of domestic violence

    MANVILLE: Silhouette reminds of domestic violence

    October has been proclaimed Domestic Violence Awareness Month in borough By Mary Ellen Day, Special Writer    October has been proclaimed Domestic Violence Awareness Month by Borough Council at the Sept. 23 meeting.    Mayor Angelo Corradino read a proclamation that said in part: “Violence against women, children, and men continues to become more prevalent as a…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Gonzales has new role

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: Gonzales has new role

    Submitted photo. April Gonzales in her office at the high school.

  • LAMBERTVILLE: Pets on parade benefit animal rescue group

    LAMBERTVILLE: Pets on parade benefit animal rescue group

    You’ll have a howling good time Oct. 19    LAMBERTVILLE — Have a “howling” good time at Animal Alliance’s ninth annual Pet Masquerade Parade, which will take place on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mary Sheridan Park on York Street.    Four-legged contestants will dress in their Halloween finest and parade in…

  • MANVILLE: Three ways described to stem a flood

    Army Corps details ideas to keep back water By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    A remedy to flooding rivers in Manville could mean building earthen levees and hardened flood walls along the banks of Royce Brook and the Raritan and Millstone rivers.    It could be a deeper river, with dredging and channeling, mostly on the Raritan…

  • Johnny Monsarrat Expands Operation in Boston Globe Building

    Johnny Monsarrat Expands Operation in Boston Globe Building

    By 1888PressRelease (1888 PressRelease) Johnny Monsarrat is the founder and CEO of Hard Data Factory, the company that owns and runs Events INSIDER a popular new England events site. Boston, MA – Johnny Monsarrat already runs the largest events blog in New England, Events INSIDER, and it got bigger this week with the hire of…

  • LAWRENCE: Community calendar

    Thurs., Oct. 3    The film “The Dynamiter” (2011) will be screened at 6:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Branch of the Mercer County Library System, 2751 Brunswick Pike. Registration suggested. Call 609-989-6920 or email [email protected]. It’s another summer in Glen Allan, Mississippi for 14-year-old Robbie Hendrick. His wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown…