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  • Hunterdon County YMCA Launches 2012 Strong Kids Campaign

    Hunterdon County YMCA Launches 2012 Strong Kids Campaign

    By Yankee Public Relations The Hunterdon County YMCA held a Thank You Breakfast for members of the Chairman’s Roundtable and business leaders at Beaver Brook Country Club on December 8. Chairman’s Round Table members support the Hunterdon County YMCA’s Strong Kids Campaign with gifts of $1,000 and above. Each year, the Hunterdon County YMCA conducts…

  • LAWRENCE: Library celebrates 50th

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    For the first 33 years of the Mercer County Library System’s existence, Lawrence residents had to wait for the bookmobile — a truck filled with library books — to make its weekly stops around the township.    But in 1961, after several years of lobbying for a bricks-and-mortar library branch, Mercer…

  • SOUTH BRUNSWICK: SBHS students show charity

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK: SBHS students show charity

    Photo by Maria Riegel South Brunswick High School students are helping out local families in need for the sec´ond year with a Giving Tree.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Community calendar, week of Dec. 15

    Business counseling available for free     Tuesday, Dec. 13 — The Small Business Development Center at Raritan Valley Community College is offering no-cost business counseling from 1 to 5 p.m. at Affinity Federal Credit Union, Hillsborough Promenade, 315 Route 206, Suite 501.     Make an appointment by contacting the SBDC at 908-526-1200, ext. 8516. Garden…

  • Twin W Volunteer EMT Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

    Twin W Volunteer EMT Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

    By Jan L Sun At the 2011 Annual New Jersey Statewide Conference on Emergency Medical Services held in Atlantic City, Mel Sanders was recognized with the EMS Volunteer Lifetime Achievement Award, selected from among 12 nominees. Mel Sanders volunteered with West Windsor ‘Twin W’ First Aid Squad for over 28 years, including 22 years as…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Scouts take on rivers swollen by storms

       Editor’s note: This article was co-written by Boy Scouts Austin O’Neill, Carter Post and Matt Seelig.    Boy Scouts of Hillsborough’s Troop 89 set out on two camping trips on Friday, Sept.16.    One group set out for the Delaware Water Gap to raft the Delaware River. A smaller group of older Scouts embarked on a high…

  • LAWRENCE: Slackwood student wins national math contest

    By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer    Abigail Crutchley and her schoolmates sat huddled on the floor of the Slackwood Elementary School’s multi-purpose room, fingers crossed, listening as the names of the list of contest winners were read off.    One by one, the names of winners of the McGraw-Hill Co.’s contest — “This is My Math” —…

  • MANVILLE: Senior center lists upcoming programs

       The Manville Senior Center on South Third Avenue is open and fully functioning.    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, 9:30–10:30 a.m. Exercise classes with Lynn at $10 each run from September to June.    The center’s hours are 9…

  • ALLENTOWN: Building moral muscle

    ALLENTOWN: Building moral muscle

    Allentown High School’s business and ethics debate group, Team Challenge, recently competed against six other high schools in an event sponsored by the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce. From left are: Jon Barnett, Annalee Lane, Ryan Ramsay, Aimee Lane, Peyton Black, Sarah Mottram, Lauren Bonham, and Mike Oliu. Staff photo by Jenna Kunze