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  • MANVILLE: Senior citizen center activities for March 29

    Seniors can create ‘aged’ foil art at center    The Manville Senior Center on South Third Avenue has scheduled its month of activities.    The center offers food, fellowship and fun on most weekdays.    The Manville Recreation Department leads lightweight exercise on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:15–10:45 a.m., and “walk and chair” exercise on Mondays and Wednesdays,…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Students fight world hunger

    EAST WINDSOR: Students fight world hunger

    ‘Be the change’ By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor    O Ambassadors, composed of nearly 150 high and middle school students in the East Windsor Regional School District, held a month-long fundraiser in January to raise money for famine relief in East Africa.    To do so, students sold African-made Rafiki necklaces, for $10 each, and raised more…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Students fight world hunger

    EAST WINDSOR: Students fight world hunger

    Sixth-grade members of the O Ambassadors Club discuss ways to make a change to help those in need at Melvin H. Kreps Middle School on March 26. In on the discussion are East Windsor residents, from left: back row, Danny Teman, 12, and Michael Aurdal, 11; front row, Anusha Kemburu, 11 and Sindhu Inala, 11.…

  • Community and Corporate Grants Support PEI Kids’ Juvenile Intervention Services

    By Diane Blaszka Lawrenceville, NJ – March 30, 2012 – Four grants received in the past three months totaling $42,500 will help support PEI Kids, a Mercer County nonprofit dedicated to keeping children safe, and the hundreds of teenage clients it serves via its highly regarded juvenile intervention programs. The Princeton Area Community Foundation, together…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Hamilton Road gains $200,000 grant for road repaving

       Hillsborough Township was awarded $200,000 in state aid for the planned resurfacing of Hamilton Road.    Manville will receive $160,000 for work on West Camplain Road.    The bulk of the Local Aid grants was awarded under the Department of Transportation’s Municipal Aid program; there were 374 grants totaling $76,126,200.    About 57 percent of the 661 project…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Mayors teach class

    HIGHTSTOWN: Mayors teach class

    Board of Education member Paul Connolly, of East Windsor, participates in the “Teacher for a Day” program at Hightstown High School on March 22. (Photo by Amy Batista)

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Alyssa Held will attend Girls’ Career Institute

    HILLSBOROUGH: Alyssa Held will attend Girls’ Career Institute

       Alyssa Lynn Held of Hillsborough High School has been selected to attend ’Girls’ Career Institute (GCI), a program by the N.J. State Federation of Women’s Clubs of GFWC for girls at the end of junior year of high school.    The program will be held on the Douglass campus at Rutgers University from June 11-14 and…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Scouts’ crafted wooden cars zoom down track
  • POLICE BLOTTER: Week of March 30

    Hightstown    Between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the 400 block of Stockton Street, an unknown subject or subjects removed three packages from the victim’s porch, police said, on March 15. The packages were valued at $180 worth of merchandise that had been delivered. Anyone with any information regarding this incident is asked to contact…