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  • HIGHTSTOWN: Petition may halt Borough Hall project

    At the center of Hightstown, community still divided By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor    HIGHTSTOWN — Protestors of the council’s April 1 bond ordinance to fund the Borough Hall project submitted a formal petition to the clerk Wednesday.    Borough Clerk Debra Sopronyi told The Herald, “There are a total of 355 ‘uncertified’ signatures on the petition…

  • Princeton University Basketball Coach Dedicates Himself to Cancer Research

    Princeton University Basketball Coach Dedicates Himself to Cancer Research

    Princeton University Head Basketball Coach, Mitch Henderson registers for American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3 at University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro

  • LAMBERTVILLE: 32nd Shad Festival set for weekend

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    LAMBERTVILLE — It’s set to go again this weekend for the 32nd year — Lambertville’s annual Shad Festival.    It’ll be held tomorrow and Saturday, April 27 and 28, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., rain or shine both days with no admission charge either day.    The Shad Fest celebrates spring with…

  • Gallery Exhibit Celebrates Somerset County’s 325th Anniversary

    Gallery Exhibit Celebrates Somerset County’s 325th Anniversary

    An 18th-century tea kettle is among the artifacts on display in the Cultural & Heritage Gallery in celebration of Somerset County’s 325th anniversary.

  • Artist David John Rush brings “Country Living” to the Washington Township Public Library

    Artist David John Rush brings “Country Living” to the Washington Township Public Library

    “Staring Me Down,” Mr. Rush explains, “ came about while driving through the back farm roads of Sussex County. A herd of white-faced Herefords were gathered in the field and as I drove by they all turned and stared at me as if asking in Robert Deniro fas

  • Gallery Exhibit Celebrates Somerset County’s 325th Anniversary

    Gallery Exhibit Celebrates Somerset County’s 325th Anniversary

    By Somerset County Board of Freeholders SOMERVILLE – A special exhibition of historical maps, sketches, postcards, paintings and artifacts in the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Gallery will celebrate the county’s 325th anniversary.  Somerset County was founded May 22, 1688. “We’re very pleased to have the Cultural & Heritage Commission hosting this exhibit in honor…

  • SOLEBURY: School dinner auction set May 4

    SOLEBURY: School dinner auction set May 4

       Solebury School will host its annual dinner auction — “A Night of Intrigue: Shaken Not Stirred” — on May 4.    The event will take place in the John D. Brown Athletic Center gymnasium on Solebury School’s Phillips Mill Road campus from 6 to 10:30 p.m.    The event is open to the public. Tickets cost $75…

  • Research on Mathematica’s History Yields Morgenstern Papers

    By Mathematica Communications Research on Mathematica’s History Yields Morgenstern Papers Collection Donated to Duke University Economic Papers Project A project on the history of Mathematica Policy Research recently unearthed a historical treasure—a cache of personal papers, professional files, and correspondence by celebrated economist and mathematician Oskar Morgenstern, a founder of Mathematica. Among his many achievements,…

  • NEW HOPE: Garden Club plants pansies, cleans canal

    NEW HOPE: Garden Club plants pansies, cleans canal

    Shira Tizer from oWowCow with Chuck Tarr of the New Hope Garden Club. Ms. Tizer provided ice cream for members of the club who planted pansies in whiskey barrel planters in New Hope. 