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  • ALLENTOWN: Mission trip to Malawi builds perspective

    ALLENTOWN: Mission trip to Malawi builds perspective

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ALLENTOWN — There’s nothing like the humbling effect of a 15-hour plane trip, losing your luggage and a dusty 90-minute jeep ride over remote dirt roads to help prepare you for a visit to an impoverished African village.    Upper Freehold Regional School Superintendent Richard Fitzpatrick could only chuckle last week…

  • Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition to Open at The College of New Jersey

    Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition to Open at The College of New Jersey

    • Zhang Hongtu, Wang Yuanqi-Cézanne, Fang, 2009, oil on canvas, 51 x 78 in.

  • HILLSBOROUGH: GOP state senator Bateman looks to continue service

    One of two candidate profiles in 16th District race By Charles Kim, Packet Publications    Republican State Sen. Christopher “Kip” Bateman wants to continue his service in the new 16th legislative district.    ”I have to reach out to South Brunswick and the Princetons,” Mr. Bateman said in a recent interview. “I have to work very hard…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Woodfern School invites veterans to school on Nov. 14

       Students and staff at Woodfern Elementary School invite family members or friends of students and staff to spend the morning of Nov. 15 with the school community.    The Veterans Day observance will begin with each homeroom spending the early morning meeting with their veteran. Students can ask questions.    At 9:30 a.m., a school-wide assembly…

  • From Kitchen to Cash! A Workshop for Food Entrepreneurs

    From Kitchen to Cash! A Workshop for Food Entrepreneurs

    Leading experts share how you can find success in the ever-changing food and beverage industry: Get out of the Kitchen, into Business, onto the Shelf, and on the Plate (cash!) *The Foodpreneur™ and Team Nimbus NJ are holding a daylong workshop on October 25, 2011 from 9am-4pm At Eno Terra Restaurant 4484 Rte. 27 Kingston,…

  • MANVILLE: Senior center reopens for exercise classes only

       Activity is beginning to stir at the Manville Senior Center on South Third Avenue. It has been closed following the Hurricane Irene floods.    The center restarted its exercise programs on Tuesday, and they will continue Monday through Thursdays, said Lisa Carra, manager of the Manville facility.    The facility, which is leased from the fire company,…

  • Trenton Times Building Sold – Offices Relocate to Riverview Plaza

    Trenton Times Building Sold – Offices Relocate to Riverview Plaza

    By Jessica Curry TRENTON, NJ – Richardson Commercial Realtors® is pleased to announce the sale of the property located at 500 Perry Street to New Jersey Precast Corp. The property is 82,196+ square feet and was formerly the headquarters of the Trenton Times, a long standing local community newspaper. New Jersey Precast plans to use the building…

  • ALLENTOWN: School board’s solar plan dims

    By Joanne Degnan, Managing Editor    ALLENTOWN — The Upper Freehold Regional School District said last week that it would have to drop its plan to join a countywide pooled solar power purchase agreement, but it’s not giving up the idea of going solar altogether.    ”Just because we can’t do the Monmouth County Improvement Authority project,…

  • HILLSBOROUGH: Two pounds of pot found in car’s trunk

       Police say they seized more than two pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $9,000 after reacting to a tip on Oct. 4.    Township police and detectives from a Somerset County task force say they stopped a black Honda in the area of Triangle Road and Route 206. Ultimately, they arrested Brian…