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  • Capital Health Medical Center n Hopewell to Open November 6

    Capital Health Medical Center n Hopewell to Open November 6

    By D MacNeill TRENTON, NJ—The Capital Health Board of Directors today announced Sunday, November 6 as the opening date of the healthcare system’s brand new Capital Health Medical Center – Hopewell. The date will also mark the transition of Capital Health – Mercer from an acute care hospital to a Satellite Emergency Department.  “Over the…

  • MONROE: 6 million paper clips illustrate deaths

    MONROE: 6 million paper clips illustrate deaths

    By Marisa Iati, Staff Writer    MONROE — Casey Condra was an eighth-grade student at Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee when the school engaged in an ambitious project: collecting six million paper clips to represent the six million Jews that perished in the Holocaust.    Monday night, Mr. Condra spoke to a room packed with people at…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: A dog’s life
  • CRANBURY: Library tours township with new plans

    CRANBURY: Library tours township with new plans

    By Heather Niccoli, Special Writer    CRANBURY — After moving from the back of a second-grade classroom to the basement of the old Cranbury School building and now sharing space with the school, the library now is ready to move out and expand.    For the past two decades, space has been the issue for the Cranbury…

  • EAST WINDSOR: Love for Vets

    American Legion plans special events By Jen Samuel, Managing Editor    EAST WINDSOR — The American Legion Post 148 spearheads fundraisers for veterans throughout the year.    The proceeds from Hightstown the Legion’s events go directly to assisting American men and women who served in all branches of the military, often times, in war zones.    American Legion…

  • Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association expands

    Watershed increases by 70 acres By Ruth Luse, Packet Publications    July 15, the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association — in partnership with Mercer County and Hopewell Township — purchased almost 70 acres of forest, wetlands and meadow from Thompson Realty Company and Princeton Research Lands, boosting the organization’s Watershed Reserve to 930 acres.    This new land…

  • HIGHTSTOWN: Bridge arcs forward

    HIGHTSTOWN: Bridge arcs forward

    Phil McAuliffe Darek Hahn, chairman of the Greenway Bridge Committee, updates the Hightstown Borough Council on fundraising efforts July 18. (Staff photo by Phil McAulif)

  • CRANBURY: Committee turns down sculpture for Village Park

    CRANBURY: Committee turns down sculpture for Village Park

    The Cranbury Parks Commission wants to put this sculpture somewhere in the township, but the Township Committee said no to putting near Brainerd Lake.

  • BREAKING NEWS: East Windsor woman escapes kidnapping

      EAST WINDSOR – An woman escaped from an ex-boyfriend who had kidnapped her after repetitively punching her and threatening her with a weapon.  The unnamed woman, 36, of East Windsor, was kidnapped by Herlindo Castillo-Siani, 39, just before noon as she walked from the Orchard residential community behind the Target on July 24.   Mr.…