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  • ROBBINSVILLE: Firefighers, Teamsters get raises in new contract

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ROBBINSVIlLE — The Township Council has approved a new four-year contract with Local 3786 representing the town’s career firefighters that provides 2 percent annual raises each year for the next three years, followed by a 3 percent salary increase in 2015.    The memorandum of agreement with Local 3786 approved at…

  • HILSBOROUGH: Flood buyouts gain potential source of funding

    Township could use open space trust fund By Gene Robbins, Managing Editor    Homeowners of flood-prone properties may have a slightly easier path to having their municipalities buy their homes.    Municipal officials are weighing the state Legislature’s unanimous passage of a bill that allows local and county open space funds to finance part of the acquisition…

  • MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Iron Lady’

    MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Iron Lady’

    Meryl Streep turns in another yet another ‘astonishingly good’ performance as Brirtish Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was, at one time, the most powerful woman in the world, and who relished her position.

  • COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Jan. 19 edition

    Thurs., Jan. 19    School-age Storytime and Craft: 4:15 p.m., Robbinsville branch of the Mercer County Library System, 42 Robbinsville-Allentown Road, Robbinsville. This class if for children in kindergarten and up. Online registration required at www.mcl.org.    Free Rabies Vaccination Clinic: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Robbinsville Township Pubic Works garage, 56 Robbinsville-Allentown Road, Robbinsville. For further…

  • BORDENTOWN CITY: It’s a bittersweet start to retirement for Joe Malone

    By Birgitta Wolfe, Managing Editor    BORDENTOWN CITY — It wasn’t supposed to end like this.    For Assemblymen Joseph Malone, R-30th, it was a hectic last day in an 18-year career in the state Legislature. The Bordentown City resident did not run for re-election and was looking forward to semi-retirement.    He had put in a grueling…

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Commemorated at MCCC

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Commemorated at MCCC

    Mercer County Community College’s Brothers of Faith Mime Team performed as part of the college’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., celebration. Pictured are Marrche Miller and Jahmir Miller. (Photo by Candace Zafirellis)

  • ALEX KASDIN OF PRINCETON ON TOUR WITH PRINCETON’S FAMOUS ‘TRIANGLE SHOW’ n PLAYS BROADWAY, FEBRUARY 3

    ALEX KASDIN OF PRINCETON ON TOUR WITH PRINCETON’S FAMOUS ‘TRIANGLE SHOW’ n PLAYS BROADWAY, FEBRUARY 3

    Classic apocalyptic themes such as the four horsemen get a new twist in Princeton Triangle Club’s 2011 show: Doomsdays of Our Lives

  • Kuiken Brothers Celebrates 100th Anniversary in Lumber Industry

    By Susan Kohl  Kuiken Brothers Celebrates 100th Anniversary in Lumber Industry  — in Fair Lawn, Emerson, Midland Park, Ogdensburg, Wantage, Garfield, Succasunna and Roseland, and Warwick, New York — Kuiken Brothers Company Inc., a leading supplier of quality lumber, millwork, building materials, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.  Kuiken Brothers was founded in 1912, in…

  • Art Exhibition in Conjunction with ARTsee of Somerset County at the Adult Day Center

    By Hilary Kruchowy Art Exhibition in Conjunction with ARTsee of Somerset County at the Adult Day Center Bridgewater, NJ, January 6, 2012 — Adult Day Center of Somerset County (ADC) announces an inaugural art exhibition at its new facility. The show titled “Selected Works by Members of ARTsee Of Somerset County” features 28 works from ten…