Category: archives

  • Blood supplies dip during summer

    Red Cross asks for donors By: Mae Rhine    Managing Editor?    The sun is shining, and people’s thoughts are geared toward vacations and other summertime activities.    It’s the time of year the Red Cross and other blood donation-gathering organizations dread because "it’s so easy to forget that blood donations are needed every day," says Malayna Johnson,…

  • Library program encourages summer reading

    By: David Weinstein    Grab a book from the South Brunswick Library. Read it for fun. Fill out a form. Win a prize.    This is a summer-months chain of events children and young adults in the township have been a part of for 10 years or more, and this summer is no different.    The Ticket to…

  • Post office joins breast cancer fight

    By:    ALLENTOWN – Acting Postmaster Joe Pepe said he is calling on all borough residents to help "fund the fight and find a cure" for breast cancer.    "The Allentown Post Office has joined a nationwide campaign to raise funds for breast cancer research by encouraging the use of a special fund-raising stamp on all their…

  • City couple partners in love, emergency services

    Patrick and Sharon Eckard volunteer for squad, fire companies By: Sue Kramer        An ongoing series about men and women emergency services volunteers.    LAMBERTVILLE – She can read his mind and he still asks her out on "dates."    After eight years of marriage, Patrick and Sharon Eckard still take so much delight in each other’s…

  • City may settle with developers

    Settlement talks in works with Music Mountain tract owners By: Cynthia Williamson        LAMBERTVILLE – Settlement talks are in the works between the city and a pair of the developers who are taking the city to court over a zoning change that significantly reduces the number of houses they can build on about 56 acres…

  • Library repairs moving in stages

    By: Kristy Klaus        ALLENTOWN – Renovations to the public library will be taken step by step.    Elaine Saullo, library board president, said the renovations are occurring in stages, and the board has applied recently for a New Jersey Historical Trust Grant to help restore the South Main Street 19th century structure.    "We just applied,…

  • Tutoring is Springboard to success

    Library program in Princeton is cited as model of excellence By: Jennifer Potash    Despite the constraints of a small work space, the Princeton Public Library’s Springboard after-school tutoring program is thriving.    The program, which offered tutoring from 3 to 6 p.m. every weekday during the academic year for young adults ages 12 to 18, was…

  • Washington revives camp

    By: Mark Moffa        WASHINGTON – For the first time since 1995, Washington Township is holding a summer recreation camp.    Chris Merias, the township’s recreation specialist, said the program was revived because of increased interest.    The camp contains three sessions, the first of which lasted one week, from June 26 to June 30. The second…

  • Roof repair halted on old church

    New Hope officials stops work because contractors had no permit for removing asbesto shingles By: Cynthia Williamson        NEW HOPE – What was thought to be a simple roof replacement project on the former Methodist church at 15 S. Main St. has turned into a controversy between the owner, the borough and Robert Rynkiewicz, building…