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  • LAMBERTVILLE: Honored for service

    LAMBERTVILLE: Honored for service

    Jennifer Fernandez, a volunteer with the Lambertville-New Hope Ambulance & Rescue Squad, was honored as the 2012 Burpee Emergency Service Award recipient. The award was presented at the 40th annual ceremony held at the Spring Mill Manor in Ivyland, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 21. The service awards are sponsored by the W. Atlee Burpee & Co…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Group helps region’s homeless students eat

    WEST WINDSOR: Group helps region’s homeless students eat

    Nicole M. Wells photo Members of the Breakfast Brigade gather donations at McCaffrey’s supermarket in West Windsor Oct. 28to help homeless children in the Cherry Tree Club Preschool .

  • WEST AMWELL: Committee hires officer, introduces ordinances

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    WEST AMWELL — A part-time patrolman for the West Amwell Township police department was hired at Monday night’s Township Committee meeting. The new patrolman is James Klesney, township clerk Lora Olsen said.    Originally scheduled for Oct. 30, the meeting was postponed until Monday night due to Hurricane Sandy.    A proposed…

  • CENTRAL JERSEY: Hurricane Sandy Relief Information

    How to give; How to get help Monetary donations are best     The Princeton Area Community Foundation advises that gifts of money are the most appropriate response to this disaster, and donations should be given directly to organizations providing aid to storm victims. Supplies are difficult and expensive to transport, and only those on the…

  • FEMA Disaster Recovery Center Opens in Somerville

    By Somerset County Board of Freeholders SOMERVILLE – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has opened a Disaster Recovery Center in the Somerset County Human Services Building at 27 Warren St. The center opened Thursday, Nov. 8, from 2 to 8 p.m. Hours thereafter will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week, until…

  • HUNTERDON: ‘Sandy’: Area still feeling effects

    By John Tredrea, Special Writer    A super storm, known as “Sandy,” slammed into this area during the evening of Oct. 29 and left many without power for days.    Many Jersey Central Power & Light customers still were living in the dark with no heat as this paper went to press. When the storm arrived, it…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: BOE: District schools open instead of off

    By Ed Birch, Special Writer    District schools were open instead of closed this Thursday and Friday, Board of Education members decided Monday night.    The panel unanimously voted to change the school schedule and add the two scheduled off days this week to make up for the time lost last week during Hurricane Sandy.    Schools were…

  • ALLENTOWN: Two local Pop Warner Cheer teams advance

    ALLENTOWN: Two local Pop Warner Cheer teams advance

       TRENTON — Two Allentown Redbirds Pop Warner competitive cheer teams recently won top spots at the Central Jersey Cheer Competition at Sun Bank Arena in Trenton and now advance to the Eastern Region Central Qualifier this weekend.    Allentown Redbirds Junior Pee Wee cheer squad, which includes girls age 8 to 11, placed first over five…

  • Trent House Museum 18th Century Tea

    Trent House Museum 18th Century Tea

    By Beverly Mills Friday, December 28th at 2:00 p.m. Susan McLellan Plaisted, proprietress of Heart to Hearth Cookery, presents an 18th century tea program which explores the etiquette and meaning of taking tea in colonial times. Using reproductions and artifacts, each piece of equipage will be demonstrated as guests sample various types of tea and…